Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Tue Jan 20 07:57:04 2004

After Nyman,my thinking on bagwell is that his weight shift is minimized so he has to really accentuate separation of upper and lower body to power the swing with minimal weight shift contribution to the timing/triggering of the launch sequence(minimal blocking when front foot bears weight.If you look at the Bagwell clip at youthbaseball coaching,he rises up to get things going/break inertia(center of gravity goes up,but it starts dropping a little before the hips turn as the legs(knees in his case)spread alittle before twisting to support hips rotating open.The center of gravity still seems to go forward a little even though the stride is negative,if you think of the bely button as roughly the center of gravity.

The experience from golf is that you can't coil well to set up rotation unless the weight shifts forward before the hips begin to turn open.The same may apply in hitting.If the weight stays back too much,you tend to keep to much weight back and spin open("reverse pivot").

Bagwell is a clinic in how maximum coil and uncoil is created and managed,making a difficult skill even more challenging.Really has to twist the torso betwween the hips and scaps to the max.