Posted by: pastime00 (rolltr@yahoo.com) on Tue Jul 6 18:18:54 2010

Thanks. More videos in my post below jacks.

I just have a hard time contemplating teaching him to pull his shoulder given how much I've stressed not letting it open up. Your boys have in trouble with that part?


> It is hard to tell from the videos, but it looks like he is pushing his hands forward in a linear fashion instead of creating a circular hand path. I would suggest, keep the hands and elbows stationary until lead shoulder begins to pull. At which time he flips his top hand to the catcher (THT) as the front shoulder continues to pull around the body. This not only creates much more bat speed, it also drops the bat head in the plane of the pitch naturally. Pull with the front shoulder, flip the back hand and hit the ball. I cannot tell the sequencing of his hips with the rest of his body, but if you get the CHP down you can work on the other things. This is what has helped my boys the most both in power and connecting with the ball.
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> > Not dragging with rear elbow getting leading hands, but bat just never out front. 5 day tournament, all ground outs except 2..flare out to right side, shallow liner to left side. One hit. THis from a kid who in Feb was hitting all gaps and batted roughly .800 in that tourney. Started first two weeks of spring season similar fashion. Then slump (bat drag), then two weeks out of it, then back in it with open stance since Bryce Harper did it that way and fixed that, then fixed his weight over front foot, now this. It's like wack-a-mole with him.
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgvEgWOh98I (foul)
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSi0gYn3ZtI (Fielders Choice)