Posted by: TDS () on Thu Mar 18 05:01:01 2004

I have a couple of 12 year olds on our team who are fine hitters, yet both have the same bad habit of dipping their back shoulder to reach low or outside pitches. Any suggestions of drills to break this habit?
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> > Mark You may want to look at their spine angle at address (more bend from the hip ) for low pitches. The problem with outside pitches is hitters try to hit the pitch to far out in front instead of letting the ball com to them more.
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> So, are you saying they should focus on bending from the hip, verus from the knees?

You want to be in a athletic position from start to finish, so you want to maintain some flex in the knees, but the spine angle is upper body bend only.