Video / Swing Analysis

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Originally posted by Low Finish:
Eyesight improves, bone strength becomes greater. Anticipation (mental game) becomes better, mechanics typically improve with age because of unconscious adaptations to competition/ through emulation.

Do you have some medical evidence that eyesight improves with age? I'd like to see it please. Same with "bone strength".

Would also love to see some evidence of mechanics becoming typically better barring deliberative practice and through emulation.

I do not see any way that his swing will become better simply because he grows older.

Now if he gets hitting instruction from a good instructor, works diligently and practices deliberately, there is no doubt he will improve. Not because he gets older.

ctandc,
I would take him to a reputable hitting instructor.

I agree with BOF too.

Agreed, get him to an Epstein instructor. As he gets older, he'll get bigger.

As he gets older, he'll observe good hitters doing things he doesn't do. He'll pick them up and start doing them. Slowly but surely, he'll improve.

Hitting by osmosis. Interesting concept.

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Originally posted by NDD:
Hitting by osmosis. Interesting concept.

I've made it sound more complicated than it is. 99% of all MLB hitters got to the MLB because of emulation (picking things up). The other 1% got to the MLB on luck.

Basically, if your son has an "internal camera" and can duplicate the moves of Albert Pujols, you have nothing to worry about. IMO, more players are coached out of the pattern rather than into it.