Posted by: Major Dan (markj89@charter.net) on Mon Mar 18 05:53:32 2002

Is having the hips tilted a mechanical flaw? Be being tilted i mean not perfectly parallel to the ground during hip rotation.

for lower pitches, hips will tilt forward (toward the plate) some. For high pitches, hips will be more parallel with the ground.

If you tilt front hip up much, you will lose leverage from your front leg. If you tilt the back hip up, it will have to come back down to rotate anyway. I think tilting front hip up may be a sign of collapsing the back side too much.
Anyone else have any ideas on this?