Posted by: George (dragonet@home.com) on Tue Apr 3 05:35:51 2001

My son,17, has been struggling with hitting line drives this year. At first I thought it was the heavier -3 bat required in HS. He's developed a good rotational swing but is hitting mostly hard grounders. Yesterday I asked him to use only shoulder rotation and arms and he was able to hit line drive after line drive. I'm aware that he lost power but I was amazed at how much bat head control he gained. When we included his hip rotation again I saw the problems return. What's hppening? timing? rolling wrists? over swinging?