Posted by: Jim (daysleeper1965@yahoo.com) on Sun Jul 17 21:20:45 2011

Thanks JCAZ
At the time of that video he was comming around with his lower half late. If you look his back knee it is pointing at the T instead of fwd. which way have something to do with him stopping his ark. He has since been working on it and its getting better.
thanks again






> > <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