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Posted by: eichler34 (eichler4@comcast.net) on Wed Jun 2 16:32:50 2010

On countless slo-motion captures of MLB home run hitters swings, the front foot plants, the hips and hands come whipping through, and there is so much torque coming from the back to the locked out front leg that the rear foot is off the ground for a millisecond almost like if you were to ride a bike fast, then jam on the front brake you'd see the back come off the ground. This to me indicates that all of the weight has transferred off the back side into that front foot. Pujols, Arod, Manny, Miguel Cabrera all do this. When I see videos of kids who have learned the rotational system, it "appears" that most or all of the weight is on the back leg still at contact.

I see rotational sites advertising to eliminate front-foot hitting and my questions are as follows:

1. Am I seeing something that looks different than it actually is? Rotational hitting seems to be big on advertising what they do is what the pro's do. Does this rear foot issue contradict rotational instruction?
2. How do you teach a kid to torque himself to get that back foot off the ground for that millisecond naturally?

Followups:

Re: Raising the back foot Ronnie [ Tue Jun 8 19:59:50 2010 ]
Re: Raising the back foot Jack Mankin [ Thu Jun 3 11:55:36 2010 ]
Re: Raising the back foot Joe [ Thu Jun 3 04:18:16 2010 ]
Re: Raising the back foot kidwill [ Wed Jun 2 19:18:12 2010 ]

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> On countless slo-motion captures of MLB home run hitters swings, the front foot plants, the hips and hands come whipping through, and there is so much torque coming from the back to the locked out front leg that the rear foot is off the ground for a millisecond almost like if you were to ride a bike fast, then jam on the front brake you'd see the back come off the ground. This to me indicates that all of the weight has transferred off the back side into that front foot. Pujols, Arod, Manny, Miguel Cabrera all do this. When I see videos of kids who have learned the rotational system, it "appears" that most or all of the weight is on the back leg still at contact. 
> 
> I see rotational sites advertising to eliminate front-foot hitting and my questions are as follows:
> 
> 1. Am I seeing something that looks different than it actually is? Rotational hitting seems to be big on advertising what they do is what the pro's do. Does this rear foot issue contradict rotational instruction?
> 2. How do you teach a kid to torque himself to get that back foot off the ground for that millisecond naturally?

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