Posted by: rql () on Tue Jan 13 16:58:52 2004

I think many of you here have a great idea on the good swing but the way we talk about it here is of little use when teaching 9-10 year olds[to complicated and need to understand too much]What I would like to hear is some ideas[simple]on how you teach youngsters to get some of the basics across.Some of mine are: back /step/turn.Stay back and step out.Turn your knee in 2 inches as you stride.Turn your belt to the pitcher.I look for the elbow pulling back in the load.
My son I saw on video was letting his bat drop back toward the catcher long before toe touch[disconnected]I had him rest it on his shoulder and go back step and stop with lead heel in the air,then swing from there.not sure I like it but it has fixed alot of the bat dropping to early.Any ideas and fixes to their problems.