Posted by: Kenny New () on Wed Feb 8 17:58:52 2012

> > My son has a habit of dropping his hands behind and below the shoulder level during the stride. This means that at foot plant his hands are below the shoulder level and the bat head is starting to angle back in the direction of the catcher. The rest of his swing looks good. He hits for good average and hits a few home runs as well. However when I look at clips of the best professional hitters none of them do this that I can tell.
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> > Should I attempt to fix what I perceive to be a flaw or not since he hits quite well as he is? My concern is that changing this could screw up his hitting but I know it doesn't look like the correct launch position.
> Kenny,
> I am curious about this as well. My feeling is that your guy is right on. I feel like the important thing is, at launch to have hands outside the back shoulder. I'm not sure, but I feel like hands in front of (inside) the shoulder will cause a leak of power. With the ultimate goal being the last link in the chain - the barrel - applying the most pop, it seems your guy has the way. Mauer, for example, has his hands in front of the shoulder though. A great hitter, but maybe he loses some power there? He is too big to not hit 30-40 plus every year.

gsfan, Thanks for the reply. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get any response when I posted my question.

The more I look at his swing, I think he is not too bad except the hands are a little lower than what you see with the pro hitters and the rear elbow is down.
I just noticed that his hands are in about the same position as the guy at the top of the screen beside the Batspeed Logo. My sons hands are maybe an inch higher but no more and his bat head is angled back toward the catcher a little instead of toward the back of the head.

My son also has a little more inward turn than this guy is showing. His lower half isn't stretched out like that guys either. My son is more balanced looking after stride.