Rotational Swing Analysis

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[Twinkilling1026]

As a matter of fact, it does create a lot of ground balls (because I've done hundreds of "DRILLS" exactly like this one). "DRILLS" are meant to NOT build bad habits. With this "DRILL" is builds terribly habits of over-rotating prior to contact and thus, losing power and hitting ground balls. Hitting is difficult enough, this just makes it more difficult.

[PinkmanBaseball]

WELL then you are probably doing the drill wrong or your bat path is terribly wrong...this does not have an impact on ground balls or line drives, bat path does.

[baseballstudent]

Why do you have the drill starting already rotated? You have all of your power going to the baseball then very little power throught the baseball. You rotate on the front part of your swing and not the back part. The drill is good if you want the hitter to hit ground balls all day long, if thats the purpose thats fine. But if you want balls blasted up the gaps you drive to the baseball and rotate on the front part to create back carry.

[PinkmanBaseball]

we have them in this "DRILL" is because this helps student understand how to rotate their hips and lock out their front knee. This flat out does not create ground balls all day, I've done this drill with hundreds of students and the main thing that creates launch is bat path, if you match the plane of the swing to the plane of the pitch you will get launch on the ball...this is a body movement drill more than anything, getting your body to learn how to execute the movements necessary to hit

[cab486]

The "corrected" student on the left has some major bat drag going on in his swing. His top hand elbow gets way out in front of his hands as he starts his swing and the barrel gets dragged through the hitting zone by his shoulders. He's in and out of the zone VERY quickly. There's no way he can stay behind the baseball and create extension with his hands through the hitting zone.

[jgatz26]

rotational hitting is by far the easier and better way to hit. just think logically for one second.. what is better getting on plane with the ball and having your bat on that plane longer through the zone or swinging down on the ball, and timing it so perfectly that you will create backspin. i'm a college baseball player and a jv high school coach and i cannot tell you how many of my kids just use the old "chop wood" method and hit weak ground balls all day to the left side.

[Hittingcoach1]

@Twinkilling1026 The other cause of ground balls is the athlete either rolls the wrist early or flips the bat through contact. With this...they tend to swing too early and the contact point is to far ahead. Make things worse...having an early wrist roll and standing up straight.

[Hittingcoach1]

@Twinkilling1026 If you’re getting ground balls from this you are probably standing to upright at the point of contact or your head is pulling of the ball causing basicaly the same. You’re either to upright and or you do not know how to properly get the bat behind the ball (on plane). The lower the balls the more your front elbow needs to work up to drop the bat head. Most people on low pitches lower the hands on low pitches and you end up hitting the top half in a sweeping motion.

[baseballstudent]

@PinkmanBaseball I literally saw this "Drill" performed for hours today. And the hitters were hitting mostly gound balls, even though the intent of the hitter was to drive the ball into the gap. Hitting is a lot like punching someone or some object, the person drives to the object with the lower half of their body and gets their hand past their body, then drives through the object to generate the maximum force.

[andybrooke17]

Where is the weight transfer? It doesn't exist.