Posted by: Donny () on Sun Dec 10 16:33:10 2006

They will go back to get on plane they must ..sure you load.

I think there is a gem here concerning getting the hands back and it's connection or potential connection to link it to hip coil and kill two important birds with one neurologically related stone.

The net difference that I feel and have seen in many players is

1. Push the hands back VS

2. Counter rotate the barrel and do not move the hands back consciencely as the rythym starts

I have found it is somehow easier coiling into the hip and tuck / sit if the hand action is cocking slightly out of plane to splitting helmet vs the tension envolved in pushing the hands back across the chest. I think scap loading occurs later in the sequence doing this and is more important when applied at precicely the right time. IT is a no teach IMHO


I can get a better hip coil/ sit with cocking hand action vs pushing back hand movement or at least teach it as a combination loading move better. I feel if I can get them loaded in sync the rest can have a positive outcome

I tell players if they want to coil into tension then lets do that below the belt. IOWs work at the hip coil/ carry and just feel the hands work the barrel BHUT at the arm pit to start your dance with the pitcher.

I try to avoid upper AND lower body cues that create tension as I think the hemisphere's default setting is to get
" locked as one".

I think connection can easily be misinterpreted as locked into one piece when the greater challenge might be to break the hips and shoulders apart to interact through the torso only.