Posted by: dougdinger () on Tue Jul 13 10:36:59 2004

As you can tell I'm having trouble getting into a good launch position. This problem this time doesn't have to do with the arms and hands. It's my hips. When I do my inward turn/coil my hips turn in with my shoulders. So I can't get full rotation and turn on an inside pitch. All my hits this season have been up the middle or the opposite field, and I mean all, all 22 of them. I get jammed inside too. When I do try to clear , hips my whole swing goes all over the place, balance is gone, swing plane too.
> > I know one problem is that I have a slight close at foot stride which I'm working on, but when I do stride straight I still have my hips coiled in.
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> Are you turning your hips backward,toward the catcher, as a start to your swing? Is it all done together? If so, why? Why not just set up with your body in the position you want it to be in before you launch toward the ball? When do you do it? After the ball is released?
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> This sounds like a bad idea to me. It adds extra moves to the swing. Plus, the moves are in the oppisite direction of the of the swing. This means you have to stop and reverse yourself. Wouldn't this make your swing late?
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> I would like to know the logic of this move.
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There is no logic to this move. It's just a bad habit of mine that I'm trying to break.