Posted by: JCAZ (joeteg@gmail.com) on Fri Jul 15 14:30:40 2011

> <a href="http://youtu.be/bVbowB9IIGw">Here is a link</a> ...Please
take a look and let me know what he needs.
> thanks
> Jim

Jim, I watched the video on YouTube. It is hard to slow those down so
you can really see what is happening. I did manage to get it slowed
down some on my iPad though, which helped some.

Here is what I have noticed. Please note, I am by no means an expert,
but here are a couple of things I too am battling with my two sons.

It looks as though he is keeping a little too much weight on his
backside throughout his swing. This may be limiting his front leg in
driving his hips around and not allowing him to stay as tall and
balanced through the swing. Not much weight seems to be coming off
his back foot when he rotates. I have been having my son load that
front leg to at least 50/50 weight distribution while hiding the
hands. This has helped him a lot, particularly on the breaking and
outside pitches. We are also working on getting that foot down early
with the body in position as we read the pitch. Not read the pitch and
then get ready to swing.

The next thing I noticed, relates to my older son. It is almost as if
right before contact, the front shoulder stops rotation and the hands
fall back into linear path as they are pushed through the ball. Take
a look at his front elbow. It does not continue to work around the
body real well in a circular path, as it must if the hands are to. It
is like it folds into the body running the hands linear and rolling
the wrists. With him, we have really been working on keeping that
elbow working up and around the body, rotating through the ball,
meeting it palm up/palm down, not going to the ball with the hands.

Just prior to contact, everything seems to change in my older sons
swing.....his head jerks, his back hunches some, hands go to the ball.
You have to slow it down to see it, but it is there. Its like he is
aiming the bat at the ball, trying to hit it at one point in time and
space, not rotating through the ball in a path that follows the pitch
plane. I know it drives me crazy, but I'm the one who taught him the
habits in the first place.

Jim, like I said, I am no expert. Those are just some of the same
things that I see in my sons swings so they were familiar to me. It
should be fun to see what others think of my assessment. Maybe they
have some good ideas that would help us both.

JCAZ