Swing update

[MrUniverse09]

I don't know if you remember my last thread (kind of turned into a trainwreck) but I am going to post a gif of my swing progress (which has gotten better...im hitting the ball better now).


Tips on further improvement. I think I'm too erect at the end. I'm really tired and dont want to be on the internet any longer, so please just rip into my swing (as gently as possible).

Please do not be rude because I am working very hard to get back into playing shape. Being the poor college kid that I am I cannot afford instruction and have just been taking a ton of swings in my dorm room, which isn't the best place to practice. I apologize for the quality but my camera is shoddy and it lost some quality in the conversion to a gif. I will try to post more tomorrow swings tomorrow, this is the only one I taped this evening.

[MrUniverse09]

Oh for crying out loud, it shrunk it.

[MrUniverse09]

Well I'm going to bed.. Someone tell me somewhere I can upload this file and i'll get a larger size for ya'll. Thanks.

[XFactor]

Oh for crying out loud, it shrunk it.

There's a joke there but I'm not going there.

Anyways, good luck at finding a place to upload it. I did a little search and found a place called www.badongo.com "One button file uploads. The easiest way to share your files for free."

I dunno if that works though.. haven't tried it

[Ohfor]

Hey, I think you demonstrate a very good base understanding of the swing. Definately need a larger view.

I think there is some hip slide (forward movement of the hips after rotation has started) which needs to be fixed. But my judgement says this swing is generated from the middle. That's a great place to start. Many many many don't get that part.

Now, stop the hip slide and experiment with your box to learn the good connection that leads to the "just turn" quickness.

[MrUniverse09]

There's a joke there but I'm not going there.

Anyways, good luck at finding a place to upload it. I did a little search and found a place called www.badongo.com "One button file uploads. The easiest way to share your files for free."

I dunno if that works though.. haven't tried it

Haha, I appreciate you not going there . I uploaded there, thanks!

[MrUniverse09]

Hey, I think you demonstrate a very good base understanding of the swing. Definately need a larger view.

I think there is some hip slide (forward movement of the hips after rotation has started) which needs to be fixed. But my judgement says this swing is generated from the middle. That's a great place to start. Many many many don't get that part.

Now, stop the hip slide and experiment with your box to learn the good connection that leads to the "just turn" quickness.

Thanks for the input. Any ideas or drills to stop hip slide? I actually thought that perhaps I had some hip slide going on as well.

[jbooth]

I don't know if you remember my last thread (kind of turned into a trainwreck) but I am going to post a gif of my swing progress (which has gotten better...im hitting the ball better now).


Tips on further improvement. I think I'm too erect at the end. I'm really tired and dont want to be on the internet any longer, so please just rip into my swing (as gently as possible).

Please do not be rude because I am working very hard to get back into playing shape. Being the poor college kid that I am I cannot afford instruction and have just been taking a ton of swings in my dorm room, which isn't the best place to practice. I apologize for the quality but my camera is shoddy and it lost some quality in the conversion to a gif. I will try to post more tomorrow swings tomorrow, this is the only one I taped this evening.

Your head is moving too much. Once your front foot touches down, your head shouldn't move more than 2 inches. Yours is moving forward and raising up much more than 2 inches. When your front foot touches, you have to use your front leg to stop any further forward movement of the upper body, and convert to rotation. You might be pushing off your back foot rather than turning off of it as you fall onto the front foot. You must get off the back foot quickly and turn, but you can't push your hips sideways. You have to TURN the back hip toward the pitcher, do not push the front hip toward the pitcher.

Your head is raising up because you are not maintaining your spine tilt. Need a bigger view from the side.

[Ursa Major]

Mr. U:

Good to have the update. Everyone's rooting for you -- with your size and ooomph, it'll be fun to see you put it together and rock a few against live pitching.

For starters, I've taken the liberty of downloading it and editing with it to make it bigger and to slow it down, particularly in the middle.



Now. Most important question: who are the babes in the posters behind you? Ahhhhhh, college guy decor.

It really helps to have a ball on a tee for you to focus on hitting; since you didn't come off the ball so much in your earlier clip, it's likely that you would look better if you had done so. It's just too easy to pull off the ball.

It all starts well and you've got intent to swing, and then the wheels come off with the hip slide and the posture issues mentioned above.

As for the hip slide, let me pull out a hoardy old cue that may help here. Or maybe not. Imagine that front foot is extending out gingerly, like you're checking a sheet of thin ice on a frozen river. This hopefully will keep your weight back until foot plant. At foot plant, the forward momentum of your body has got to stop; keep that front leg firm but bent so that the back hip has something to rotate around! But, that's what everyone else has said, so ... enough said.

As for the losing tilt and raising your head -- read JBooth's post five times. It's gospel. (So is pretty much everything Jim says.) That raising up destroys your connection as well as likely making you miss the ball more often than not. Again, all I can offer in addition is a cue or drill. Practice your swing not in front of babe posters, but with a big mirror opposite you. Start your swing and note where your feet are. Freeze at front foot plant. Now, have someone put a piece of tape on the mirror right where the top of your head is. Unfreeze. Go back and do your swing, watching your head in the mirror. If it moves relative to the tape, your head is moving too much or your hips are sliding rather than rotating.

Lather, rinse, and repeat 1500 times until keeping your head still and your hips rotating (rather than sliding) becomes as natural as breathing. And you'll be on your way.

[MSandman]

Any chance we can see a true perpendicular angle that includes the feet?

[MrUniverse09]

Any chance we can see a true perpendicular angle that includes the feet?

heh it's hard the way the room is set-up to get any sort of a decent angle. I'll play around tonight though and get back to you :o

[MSandman]

Understand. Thanks.

[Ohfor]

Include a close up of those posters too......please.

[MSandman]

Not sure if this might help?

[MrUniverse09]

Thanks everyone.


It's really hard for me to step, rotate, keep low AND transfer weight to front foot. I always seem to lose my balance when I try to straighten the front leg and put the weight on it. I was thinking that perhaps my hamstrings were too weak but I'm not sure. I deadlift in the weight room to strengthen them so I don't know if that's the reason or not.