Posted by: rql () on Fri Jun 14 16:40:50 2002

In northern Ohio, and trhoughout babseball camps. Baseball are taught a 1)turn 2)stride) 3)rotate 1) your lead foot turns slightly inward along with your inner thigh. this cocks your swings, bring it in, ready to explode 2) the stride is short and towards the pitcher 3) rotate, trun your hips, hands to the ball, squash the bug follow through.
> > question- I have not seen the frist step (turn) taught in fastpitch softball...is there a reason? Do you think this step would help girls hit better? more power? what do you think? I was always taught...turn..stride..rotate....
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> >>Yes it would help in softball,but it seems the softball idea is to make everything as short as possible to catch up to it.However the mind set is that shorter linear is quicker.Your comments are some what on track yet the hip rotation should then be followed by shoulder rotation that brings the hands and bat around that is the reason for the inward turn and walking away from the upper body to get the tight linkage as jack would say.
>>If you look under swing mechanics the swing of sosa in frame by frame clearly starts before shoulders start.