Posted by: teddy () on Thu Mar 6 16:01:56 2003

What is everyone's analysis of this clip. Click on the link below the ball.
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> > > > > http://www.eteamz.com/humblecobras14u/albums/index.cfm?subsite=678675&id=178301
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> > > > > By the way, her dad says the HS coach is trying to change her even though she consistently drives the ball hard in select/travel ball. What a shock.
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It appears that she a bit too much lean of her upper body, her rear end goes out just as rotation begins. the lean makes her appear to be off balance. She does use her legs well and has a nice follow through/finish

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> > > > > Mark H.
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> > > > This board, with no opinions? If there was anything we had plenty of on here I thought it was opinions.
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> > > > Mark H.
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> > > Its a very hard clip to examine since i dont have a program to show it frame by frame... by pausing it i do see that a few mechanics do need to be changes in her approach to the ball, the bat head drops way to fast and is below her elbows almost. That is all i can really pick up from the clip.
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> > Download the free QuickTime player from apple's site. You can slide frame-by-frame (if they're all present in the clip).
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> I was just about to say that it looks like early roll over but the camera angle and possibly missing frames makes it difficult to see. And, one cause of early roll over is the lead elbow being too low. Then I read the post above that says the bathead is below the elbows which insinuates the elbows should be low.
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> My question is....When is the bathead below the elbows and what is wrong with that? At contact? At launch? What are you referring to?