Posted by: Joe White (jmwfvl@bellsouth.net) on Wed May 23 10:15:33 2012

My daughter's been swinging rotational for 5 years. About 6 months ago, she began swinging with a low lead elbow. At contact on a pitch that's below chest high, her lead elbow is waist high, and usually nearly straight. So she's gone from hitting hard line drives to the outfield to soft line drives to the infield, and soft ground balls.

I have been working with her to correct this, but nothing we've done has changed her swing IN GAMES.

We've done tee work, she keeps her elbow up and at 90 degrees for that. With soft toss, she keeps her elbow up and 90. But with live pitching, pitching machine, and in games, the elbow drops. She does this from both sides of the plate. She's frustrated and disappointed, so am I.

I've gotten out the Perfect Connexion and the punching bag, hoping to build muscle memory with those. I have her swing either 50 or 100 times into the bag, depending on what else we're doing that day. I thought it was helping, but we just did a showcase tournament and her hitting was awful -- and the elbow was waist high every swing.

I just noticed in videos of last week's tournament that she was hiding her hands low - her top hand was shoulder high instead of ear high. Could this be the cause?

The rest of her form is very good, lower body is fine, bottom hand torque and position at contact is good.

Please, any advice will be appreciated. We're in front of college scouts, she's a junior, she really wants and needs this fixed.