Posted by: rql () on Tue Mar 4 14:32:31 2003

http://www.collegesports.com/sports/w-softbl/stories/030303aak.html
> > Tom,fp may be a little different,but she appears to me that she has shifted her weight [upperbody]so much to the front leg that rear leg is extended and it would be difficult to drive the rear knee down and in to drive the rear hip forward.
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> RQL - What disadvantage do you think that has? She has NO PROBLEMS with power so take that out of your mind. She hits the ball plenty hard and plenty far. So is she off balanced for offspeed or does her posture prohibit her from hitting a certain location? I think she is in a pretty good launch position too.
I guess what I see is her upper body set up on the inside of her front thigh instead of her rear thigh and I see a straight rear leg coming up on the toe where there would be more riding up on the front leg.Seems to me when her front heel came down she would have had axis still shifting forward and at best the use of the front leg driving the front hip back for rotation instead of both working against each other.When I see baseball hitters like this I usually see poor hip rotation not enhancing shoulder speed.I do realize girls usually play on 200 foot fence and for their size it is fairly easy to reach if they catch up to ball.The upper body looked fine to me.