Posted by: () on Wed Sep 4 05:38:32 2002

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> you could be right.any ides on fixing this?a buddy told me he thought my hips were flying open,or so he thought how can i retrain myself to get 2 indepent motions going.sometimes when i try to slow myself down i do it properly,but when i get too quick i do as you say. any ideas

Whom ever,

Again, without seeing your swing I can only guess, but I will throw some ideas out.

1. If you are picking the ball up late you may be making a late lunge at it. This can cause your swing to be wild and uncontroled because you know its a good pitch and you are late and you know it.

2. You may be casting. This happend because the back upper arm is not againinst the side when the swing starts moving forward, hips first. This is difficult to see with the naked eye. You will need a tape in slow motion.

3. There are many many hitters who THINK