Posted by: larry briody (ljbriody1@aol.com) on Tue Aug 28 11:24:41 2001

Mr.Mankin, I was looking at some recent tape that I took of Kate and Marissa before they left for college.What I saw was bothof them making contact too far out in front.The outside pitch was being hit at just about their front foot.Their hips were also open too far.On the inside pitch there top arm was extending too much and coming in towards their navel when contact was being made.They understand what they should be doing from tht through bht and we have worked on the bag and everything seems just fine in drills but the tape shows the flaws described above.I told them to hit some balls off the tee.For the outside pitch I told them to place the ball on the tee just inside of their back foot and to get a feel of the contact point.For the middle pitch just forward of the center of their body and for the inside pitch just in front of their lead foot.This as I stated before seems to be a timing issue,but I certainly could be off the mark.As always ,thankyou for your advice.