M.Erwin Progress

[Mike]

I see he has better scrap load and lateral tilt even though it looks like a bit of.a side tilt. His shoulders stay sideways longer. Another thing I noticed is how much his bat revolves around his body and hands and how much you use your body to make the barrel go around your body, if that makes sense.

[Mike]

[QUOTE=matthewerwin00;97265]

What do you see with this side by side?

Kemp does seem to have more depth than me.[/QUOTE

[Mike]

Why don’t you do the drill Soriano does. Put the tee on the outside of the plate across from your rear hip. That’s helped my hitters.

[Mike]

Been using this exercise with some success recently helping kid make sense of turning the barrel...from tipped position I tell them to snap the barrel back, under, and out towards 2Bman...just started using the 'towards the 2Bman cue...this kid not doing it



From this I then tell them to move hands in front of back shoulder and do the same thing they are doing above...without tip or not as big of a tip

Then I get them in a wide stance and have them coil and again start hands in front of back shoulder but then pull scap back then do what they are doing in exercise above

Then we add a stride...

This kid is doing the exercise above with the snap barrel back, under, and out towards 2bman cue....then doing the wide stance/ coil /no stride /just pull scap back&turn it off tee

Try these drills and see if you get the feel of turning the barrel rearward.

[matthewerwin00]

06/22/2018

[matthewerwin00]

Oppo launch direction was something that i had been missing. I finally felt the rear hip grab and whip my barrel through today.



I think i am lacking some tilt. In slow motion my swing seems to look a little “out front” - if that is the correct way of describing it.

[Mike]

I can see the improvement and work you have put in to your swing. I agree your a little out
front with your hands.
Snap the barrel behind you.

[Mike]

Here are a couple of videos I made last December to show how to get a good deep rear hip load without losing two eye contact with the pitcher.

Each video starts with counter rotation of the shoulders by way of waist separation. There is no good coil feel until I get turned too far.

Then, I show what happens when you stick the butt out and arch the back and then coil or pull yourself on around by way of the lower back, not the shoulders. The good load feel happens long before you could lose two eye contact.

Use Your Back To Coil Side

Use Your Back To Coil Front

You can barely see anything, but it is quite significant, and, I think you can see enough that you can get out of your chair and attempt it and create the feel immediately. In both the good demo and the bad....I reach a quality load feeling. But the amount of movement is far less in the good attempt. With the main difference being the butt out and back arch.

When I stick my butt out and arch my back (using back extensor muscles)and then coil the hip socket around the ball of the femur, I reach the hip socket range of motion limit. Then, I pull the back around as far as it will go using lower back muscles, which isn't much further but I can feel it get tighter. I should say, whatever muscles I use, it creates a stretch feeling in the rear arch of the lower back as I attempt to pull rearward more. It is that rearward movement, or attempt at movement, that I am speaking of when I say it is constant and increasing. Right in the rear lower back. It is that feeling of stretch that creates the spring.

Here is an interesting piece of physics. You will not spring forward unless your back is pulling rearward. It is the back pulling rearward that the leg works against. The harder your back pulls rearward the harder the leg works to counter it. That is why it must be constant and increasing.

When you turn your barrel rearward 'into' that load....not forward 'away from' or 'out of' the load....you get a very sudden SnF launch.

Matt here is a good post about the pullback . Keep up the great work.

[matthewerwin00]

Usually when I am off it is because I am using arms/shoulders to power swing. I am not for sure if the root of the problem is because my rear leg load isn't right (which would mean I am forced to produce power with arms) or if i am simply just not launching 'into' the load and allowing rear leg to pull.

edit: I was not turning the barrel. I was using arms and shoulders to pull the knob across instead and rear leg can’t pull with shoulders rotating.

[matthewerwin00]

06/24/2018



So, in my last swing clip i talked about feeling the rear hip grab whip my barrel through. Well, tonight i didn’t seem like i could find that feeling. In my last post above i talked about not knowing the root of the issue. It seemed like i could just never find that autopilot feeling.

notice:

I thought 2 legged too, because the way your hips were twisting and the shoulder rotation. Pulling along the barrel requires excessive shoulder rotation and it seemed to be more than normal.

edit: I wasn't turning the barrel. I was swinging the arms and shoulders. If shoulders are rotating rear leg can't pull. I fixed the issue by thinking knob up instantly and doing some barrel turn exercises Coach Soriano had shown me.

[Mike]

Matt, I’m sorry that’s above my pay grade. I’d be only guessing and wouldn’t want to do that to you. Maybe Richard or one of the more experienced posters will have some time to respond.

[matthewerwin00]

I quit dumping the barrel rearward because i was popping up. My rear leg wasn’t pulling and barrel was never getting whipped around. At the end, (the videos i posted were at the end of my session) i wasn’t snapping barrel rearward anymore because i didn’t want to pop up so i started pushing forward and applying force into the ball.

The root of the problem is i am 2 legged because my rear leg load wasn’t right.

[Mike]

I thought 2 legged too, because the way your hips were twisting and the shoulder rotation. Pulling along the barrel requires excessive shoulder rotation and it seemed to be more than normal. What I couldn't tell was a weighted or pushing back front foot. I didn't have the confidence to say it. All part of the learning process for all of us. Great job Matt, the fight continues.

[Mike]

That’ sounds great Matt.

[matthewerwin00]

06/27/2018



Felt good tonight. Trying to get around rear leg more here

edit: rear leg load still doesn't look right here