Posted by: rql () on Sat Sep 15 10:11:57 2007

> I began visiting this site in 2003 and have been coaching my daughter's club fastpitch team since then. I came to believe in the concepts advocated here based upon what I saw in clips and felt when I swung my bat using them, but I now spent several years teaching them and have seen great results. Either the concepts and drills jack describes---and the ones we've added according to our own sense of what would help teach them---are teaching a valid system of mechanics, OR they are flawed BUT somehow coincidentally teach "something else" that works.
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> Club teams turn over two or three kids each season, at least, and by now I have worked with about 25 kids. It has been a cool "laboratory" and I have posted here a time or two about my "results".
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> The recent multi-post,heated string reminds me that much of these discussions center around what various people believe, in good faith, about what they are seeing in video clips. what have people seen on the field of play when teaching the various mechanics----these or others----they believe in?
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> I would be interested in hearing about others' experiences, such as they may be, in trying to teach these concepts to young batters. have you had success? What "words" do you use? (Frankly, the term "top hand torque" doesn't compute well with 15 year old girls, we began using the term---also Jack's----"spinning the hands" some time ago and they immediately got it.) Do you have other drills that have helped/supplemented those Jack describes?
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> I would be especially interested in hearing from those who adopt/teach the concepts advocated here, but it would be very interesting as well for those who disagree to post of their "results".
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> I will add one other thing that has become clear the last few seasons: I've had three kids who naturally used THT and CHP, and they share one distinctive characteristic: They love to KILL the ball and put all the umph they can into every swing. My theory is that, left alone and given no coaching whatsoever, the desire to swing HARD may lead naturally to development of the mechanics that bring the most possible power into the swing. In any event, we have added the constant admonition SWING HARD to our drills, with very noticable results in a couple of players who drained off bat speed by "just meeting the ball".

>>Bagwell once said something like when I started thinking swing with power,my power swing evolved,good observation DAW