Posted by: ROBERT WILZ (rswilz17@msn.com) on Fri Apr 9 10:21:15 2004

Does anyone have tips on how to get an 11 year to not drop hands before swinging. He knows he is doing this and is consciousely trying to correct. It would be great to have a few drills specific to correct.
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> > Dropping from where to where? Maybe his hands needed to drop depending on where they started out. Some hitters drop, raise or do all kinds of hitches BEFORE swinging.
> ,,what you can do is have the child stand on the front foot. and place the mitt under the arm pit of the forward shoulder and raise the back foot off of the ground. if the child hitches or even swings up they will loose their balance.
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> Many kids drop their hands/ hitch as they load some weight backwards to the ball of their rear foot. For them it is like starting from a racing position. Many do not even know their hands are dipping. One solution is to start with the weight preloaded 60/40 already back. This seems to help the hands problems in many kids that I have coached.