Posted by: mike28nc (mikelamb68@hotmail.com) on Wed Jun 14 23:42:36 2006

> OK, so my son is a 10 yr old who makes very consistent contact...great hand-eye.
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> If he has a flaw that I've been able to pick up its hitting off his front foot...not staying back around that stationary axis.
> However his hitting pattern lately is what is perplexing me.
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> He tends to hit grounders to the left side (he's a righty) but pop up to the right side. In fact he's been popping up to second a lot, even in the cage, half of his contact seems to be pop ups to the right side.
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> Based on this pattern, any comments regarding what he is likely doing that results in this consistent hitting pattern?
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Jimmy,

That is hard to say with out seeing his swing. But I feel most of it is the location of the ball and or timming. If he is early on outside pitchs he may reach and stay out over the front foot to make contact. The same could happen if his timming is off.

I would take a step back and hit off the tee and the bag. Check is swing at contact using the heavy bag. Then you can see on the outside pitch if his hands are leading the bat, head out, etc. Then to soft toss / cage.

Mike