Posted by: Dave P (cdpaetkau@telus.net) on Tue Feb 12 22:54:47 2008

> > I do think they showed it all, although I couldn't really see it myself. I'm not sure they were advocating ending on the tippy toe as much as getting on it (which means most of your weight is on the front leg) at some point during the swing. I'm now in the process of doing a brainwash process on my son as he's confused to the point of inertia on his swing.
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> The natural forces within a quality swing bring the hitters back foot to its tippy toe at contact for a brief moment. The only way to achieve it correctly is to not concentrate on it but to do every thing else correctly.
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> Trying to achieve the toe position at contact will only cause poor mechanics throughout the rest of the swing.
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> Jimmy

Hey Jimmy

Some of the best hitters in the majors have their back foot off the ground when they hit the ball. Their back foot is moving forward during the swing and comes to rest after contact. The back foot is what starts the lower body in motion and puts the rest of the body into motion for the rest of the swing.

How can you do something after it has already happened. The swing starts at the feet and goes up so if you do this wrong how can the rest of the swing get it right??

Just my comments

David for your son there are always different ways of seeing how a swing is made and of course then are different interpetations. If you think about how you throw a ball overhand when you throw your hardest your weight is forward and your weight is off your back foot and you would not throw with your weight going back onto your back foot. This is a great analogy in comparing bug squishing to heel up.

DAve P