Posted by: Coach C () on Mon Nov 24 19:51:31 2003

I have attached another clip for review and comments. I think this is a pretty “interesting” swing.
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> http://webpages.charter.net/nickkio/11.15.Swing.mpg
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> Nick
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First off Nick, his swing is better than mine. I like this player's swing a lot, but my take is he is transferring too much weight during the swing. To me the snapping of the front leg to straight is not entirely from rotation, but largely due to the fact that he is driving forward with his weight and legs. My guess is this is a good hitter, so I'm very learly to be offering advice to someone that is probably doing quite well for himself. If I had to give any advice it would be to forget the lower body pre-launch and learn to stay weight centered from beginning to end. This player looks like a high average hitter, but lacks consistant power. Forget the phrase "weight back" and learn the phrase "weight centered". This kid looks great otherwise. Reminds me of Jermaine Dye's swing from the A's.

Coach C