the h/school coach dont like my swing !!

JimSmith#15,

Where's Hatfield and what HS will you be attending?

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Originally posted by CoachO:
Coach2709, I did not take it as any kind of criticism of his talent. I do not think that anyone else who has ever been in a competitive mode did either.
I think that you just exhibited a very good competitive spirit and I want to commend you on a truly worthy display of character, self discipline and sportsmanship. You would be one of the truly worthy opponents.
Good luck to you and your staff.

Coach O thank you for the kind words and we will keep doing what we have been doing and hope to get better through hard work. In fact we open up this coming monday against the owensboro team the pitcher at OK State played for. I hope they stink but I doubt it so we will be ready.

Once again thanks for the kind words.

its not wrong to let go AFTER contact because the ball is gone and you can't change what has already happened. although, you let young kids let go and pretty soon they are "reaching"(getting premature extension)and letting go at or before contact. if you want to garauntee that this doesn't happen don't let go! it doesn't seem to affect guys like Vlad to keep both hands on the bat. Pros do things that h.s. kids and college kids can't do. thats why they get paid to do it!

hatfield is in pa. my h/s is north penn just north of philly in montgomery county . i think this weather has to break all this indoor stuff is killing me .

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Originally posted by JimSmith#15:
hatfield is in pa. my h/s is north penn just north of philly in montgomery county . i think this weather has to break all this indoor stuff is killing me .

I was raised in eastern Ohio, and my wife’s a western Pa gal. If http://www.npenn.org/northpennhs/site/default.asp is the site for your school, it looks like it’s a moose of a school! 3,400 students in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade is huge.

If you’re suffering the same kind of weather our people are in the western part of the state, you gotta be miserable, at least from a baseball standpoint! I’m reading about schools who’ve already played 10 games or more, and I’m jealous that we’ve only played 6!

There’s no doubt you’ll get to play your 25-30 games, but the way its lookin’, you’ll have to play 5-6 games a week to do it!

So what kinds of things are you guys doing at practices, if you’re having practices at all?

yeah thats my huge h/s .all the freshman are in middle schools . we practice in the gym . and my aau team has a indoor place with turf and indoor hitting /pitching tunnels . we scimage this week end -yeah right too wet

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Originally posted by JimSmith#15:
yeah thats my huge h/s .all the freshman are in middle schools . we practice in the gym . and my aau team has a indoor place with turf and indoor hitting /pitching tunnels . we scimage this week end -yeah right too wet

Its funny how much people’s ideas about those mega schools changes as time goes by. On the flip side, there’s a school in Mississippi where all 4 classes are 125 students!

All it proves is that everybody had a much different perspective about things. Like you, my son and daughter both hate that hey went to huge schools. For my son it was great as far as baseball went because it got him a lot of attention and rewards he’d have probably missed out on at a small school, but for the rest of the HS experience, the social part, my kids hated it, as do most other kids.

Too impersonal.

update ----- coach was a little qweezy on our first outdoor practice . I BOMBED MY FIRST HOMER OVER THE 325 FENCE!!! OH YEAH HE LIKES THE SWING NOW!

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have spent 2 yrs refining my swing with charlie lau

I'd be interested in knowing how young Mr. Smith engaged Charlie Lau in sessions for hitting instruction.

From baseball-reference.com:

Charlie Lau

Charles Richard Lau

Bats Left, Throws Right
Height 6' 0", Weight 190 lb.
Debut September 12, 1956
Final Game September 29, 1967
Born April 12, 1933 in Romulus, MI USA
Died March 18, 1984 in Key Colony Beach, FL USA

Well the technology available these days really is quite amazing.

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Maybe they're giving hitting lessons on the History Channel.


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duh,,,,its his kid!

BRILLIANT!

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The kids in the Western suburbs always were a step ahead....


cadDAD
(Wheaton Central HS, Class of '72)
I beat Jim Belushi out for the lead in the Senior Musical...

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Two blondes sitting on a porch one night. One looks up at the full moon, sighs and says...

Which do you think is farther? The moon or Ft. Lauderdale?

The other one responds.... "duh,,,, can you see Ft Lauderdale?"


cadDAD

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charlie lau JR.-- duh and you guys are into baseball right ??

So Jim, you are blonde????..

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Originally posted by Big1toe:
Last night the coaches were trying to change my sons swing also. I told him exactly what is being said. Always be respectful, take what you can from what they are telling you and continue to hit the way you know how. Once the games start and you hit they will leave you alone. He also has followed the Charlie Lau theory of hitting, including releasing the top hand a lot after contact which is what the coaches have an issue with but if you keep your head on the ball at contact you have to release after.

"if you keep your head on the ball at contact you have to release after."[/QUOTE]This is not true! Once the ball is gone, the finish is unimportant.

the top hand release and high finish drills helps keep the swing plane true to the ball for line drives. to go through the balls pitch plane to maximize possible contact as not to chop down at the ball but meet it . if you have a death grip with the top hand the further the ball is over the middle to the outside corner the more likely you are to roll over your wrist ,decelerate and change the bats path just before the point of contact. not a real consistent hitting technique .it's hard enough to hit with out having to compensate for a bat that is doing lets say a flying V not a nike swoosh!

Oh yeah update two !!! i got 3 homers now 5 triples and my stats as cleanup hitter are through the roof . were 9-1 now !!!!!