Posted by: mpf (mford@uab.edu) on Wed Mar 1 17:50:04 2006

> Now that you mention it, I regularly see girls in that age range end their swing "at" the pitcher, rather than continuing around, completing the circle. Usually they don't get their hips turned and consequently the torso and shoulders don't continue around.

Right, the question becomes what is the cause?

1.) they stop "rotating", so hands come out of CHP
2.) the hands/arms aren't strong enough relative to the initial "correct" rotation of the pelvis/torso, which causes the hands to come out of CHP and then permits they stop rotating relative to the loss of CHP

I would suppose a way to test it would be to use a significantly lighter bat and see if they have the coordination (meaning: they continue to rotate keep a CHP). I will guess that many here will argue that hand/arm strength is not necessary if proper coordination is in place. Not so sure with developing children.

mpf
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