Posted by: TOTI (DD) on Thu Jan 29 23:27:12 2004

Two swings by Toti:
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> How's the catcher? I hate to laugh, but that is funny.
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> Anyway.....Toti, there are a lot of good things going on in the game swing. I like the swing plane, you're in the strike zone for a long time. There is still a degree of "push to extension" going on late in the swing. However, I am quite confident that based on the swings I see, you are most definitly on the right track. My advice would be to keep the hands back even more and work on rotating through the ball and not just to it. Tell yourself in practice drills that you're going to rotate past the ball and don't stop at contact. I would also have you quite your legs a bit, but that's just my personal preference.....not a critque on your style. I feel there is no significant gain in moving to the ball with the legs or body...just let the ball get in the way of the swing.
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> Having said all of that you look great.....I wonder what the results have been for you? Other que's that may help are "feel the ball deep into your body", "keep the lead arm loose through the ball(it'll straighten on it's own)", "Keep the swing below the lead elbow as long as possible and not above it." These que's really have helped myself and my hitters. You are doing these things for the most part anyway, but emphasizing them will help in taking away the push to extension at the end of the swing." Even though you're not severe at all.
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> The game swing is very nice. Good Job!
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> Coach C
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> HI COACH

the cacther is fine..no harm done. by the way i drilled him a couple of times more in that game..he, he.


coach, i like the praise, specially, because these are earlier swings with a lot of linear components, like you well said"pushing through the ball". i am now in the process of sitting to hit with a more rotational approach. all the cues work for me. the cue i use now is "rotate the front knee, and let the body swing". it works great. bat almost fly out of my hands. it feels great and very, very rotational. it is almost like "spinning" a la jeter.
i bend my front knee now. in the clip i dont. it is more of a linear stride.

another thing i do is i sort of "straithen the lead arm" and "rotate". not "lock" but straight. i go much more back in prelaunch and let my body innitiate. i am incorporating the scapula load ect. however i am sitting out and only lifting at the moment. i almost busted a knee in the gym plus my date dropped a bowling ball on my big toe. so i am pretty limpy now. no rest.

toti

look forward to season