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If you are reading this, you are in the main forum....where all the good discussion and exchange of ideas occurs.

Instructional threads are 'stickied' to the top of this forum page in an effort to get new members to see the work that gets done here. There are 5 different threads of a dad and his kid, going through the HittingIllustrated process. They are quite instructional. I think you'll be impressed with what you see. The kid's progress is amazing. One of them is now a D1 player who chose college after being drafted. Another is a DII college player. A third is his brother who is now in high school. The fourth is a current high school freshman. And the fifth is my son who is now out of college and playing amateur fastpitch softball. Take a look. The terminology is likely to confuse you at first. But do your best to understand.

Then, there is another forum titled The Second Engine, found just below this one on the main page, which consists of 18 threads that have been chosen as 'good reads' for new members to get 'up to snuff' on what is taught here.

It is my recommendation that you spend your first hour or so in that forum reading those threads. Then, come here to ask questions. We love it when clips of hitters are posted.

And here is a link to an Instructional Starter Pak. It has the basic information. There are many details that go with each step that are too cumbersome to put in the Pak.

Instructional Starter Pak

MAKE THE BEST USE OF YOUR TRIAL PERIOD
POST A CLIP OF YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER
I'LL GIVE YOU AN ANALYSIS AND A RECOMMENDATION.

If I were you, I'd concentrate on figuring out what the Hand Pivot Point and what the Rear Hip Pivot Point are....and how they are synced together to create the high level swing.

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3 month newbie to H.I.

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    3 month newbie to H.I.

    I can't believe it's been 3 months since I signed up for this site. I have learned (still learning) so much about hitting at the highest level possible. The best thing as a coach, my hitters are better, not perfect, a lot better for it as well. We are going to drive the balls that gave us trouble before and crush the ball we hit before.

    If you are new to this site and want to get the most out of it? Here is what I did
    1. I read old post, I'm here to learn ... not to teach... a huge amount of great information, after I put in my time maybe
    2. Post videos and ask questions. We are all works in progress at different stages of development.
    3. Start swinging a bat. This was a real eye opener to me.
    4. Be a blank canvas until you ready
    5. Work , top down, bottom up, left to right, right to left, front to back, back to front. 360 degrees
    6. I had to see the small success hidden inside of the failures.
    7. I kept posting
    8. I Rinsed and repeated
    Hopefully this helps a new person get started.
    Last edited by Mike; 12-06-2017, 10:11 PM.
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    if you interested in posting videos , here is what I did.
    record a 2 second clip and post it to you tube .Copy the link and make a gif and post that.

    Here is a post from Jryan that helped us learn how to make and upload a gifs. He was a great help

    Hi all,

    Mike was looking for a hand on uploading videos so I thought I'd start a thread on making GIF's from youtube videos. If anyone has more expedient methods, please share!

    1. For me I love having google plus automatically backup all my photos and videos from my Android phone. When I'm at the field, I just take videos and when I get back home on wifi, my phone automatically uploads all my videos and photos.

    2. Youtube has a tool to import videos directly from google+. You see it on the right when you click on upload videos. This method keeps me from ever having to download videos using cables...

    3. There are a few sites that will let you convert youtube videos to GIF's. I tried using makeagif but it was giving me errors going directly from youtube, but gifs.com worked ok.

    https://gifs.com/
    https://makeagif.com/

    4. Both of these sites have lots of options, here are some useful ones.

    Timeline adjustment - both let you change start time and trim the length
    Cropping - Gifs.com
    Adding captions - Gifs.com
    Providing links - Makeagif will output a link that you can paste straight into HI

    5. If you only have a "direct link" to the gif, on the HI post, choose the "insert image" button and paste the direct link in there.


    That should be it. If anyone else has better or more efficient methods, let's hear them!


    BTW - I still do a lot of GIFs the old school way using virtualdub. Vdub lets you do lots of really advanced things like zooming, changing frame rates, flipping, reversing, side by sides, etc.

    Here are a couple threads where I describe how to do some of the advanced vdub tasks:
    http://hittingillustrated.com/forum/...ght=virtualdub

    Also the free software, Kinovea, is a really great slow motion software. It will let you put two videos sidebyside and synchronize them easily.


    I wish that I could find something that would let me go from google+ directly to a GIF. That would save a couple steps... I'm going to post this request on the two gif sites that I mentioned above.

    God Bless!


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    Last edited by Mike; 12-06-2017, 04:51 PM.
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