Posted by: Teacherman () on Tue Nov 18 17:45:54 2003

>>> I would say the bat pulling away from the ball describes it better than the axis fading. <<<
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> > Hi Teacherman
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> > When the bat is pulling away from the path of the ball means the hands have started acring over toward third-base before the bat-head enters the contact zone. This is common with batters who accelerate the bat knob-first. They reach near full extension of the back-arm before the bat-head arcs outward.
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> > Jack Mankin
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> There could be a few different ways to pull off the ball or to fix it depending on the cause.I have been seeing a problem with my daughter who has a great strong swing on the tee to all fields but when I pitch she misses center more than she should and her arms often look straight at contact and something just did'nt look right.My video is on the blink so I have had to try to pitch and watch[hard].Well today I noticed that her head was turning up and back and her arms and bat did not look 90 degrees to the spine.What was happening is that she was straightening up her body and not tucking the front shoulder in the load.This was the beginning of her pulling off the ball,by oor posture set.THE FIX,I asked her to think down and in with thr front shoulder and as she started to swing tuck her chin towards her chest.All of a sudden her posture was right her head down on the ball thru the swing and she began blistering the ball to all fields.I am sure there could be other ways to fix this problem with other hitters ,I thought I would just pass on this scenario.


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What you're seeing and your fix are much closer to what I'm experiencing. The tuck of the front shoulder and the load of the front knee and hip seem to have a lot to do with it. When I weight shift back prior to rotation I'm able to do that shoulder tuck. This is close to what I see Edmonds do.

They had a highlight on him on a sports show locally and they showed 10 or 15 of his swings. I got it on Tivo (instant replay) but didn't save it. He shifts weight over top of his back leg as he loads his front knee and hip and then as the hips fire the separation is obvious and the hips leading the torso in combination with the shoulder tuck seems to keep the bat back in the zone. At least it did for me after I experimented with what I observed in his swing.