Posted by: rql () on Wed Jan 26 19:09:30 2005

My daughter has a great stance and decent power. She does make a lot of contact, but has the tendency to straighten up during her stride. She then pulls the ball. What can I do to get her to lean into the pitch.
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> She could be tensing up too much during the swing. So in her stance, get her to move or sway around a bit to keep lose.
> Another thing would be to get her to take her stance with a more forward lean in the upperbody, like Rickey Henderson.
.My daughter did this as well and she could never totally stop, it a true flaw,we went to a very small stride and focused on keeping knees bent and pushing the chest toward the plate.