Need help working on my snap... my hand pivot feels sloppy

[Mike]

[Tyler Lowe]

So get in my hip more and hold while moving forward?!??

[Mike]

So get in my hip more and hold while moving forward?!??

See how Richard’s rear butt cheek is circling what would be toward the pitcher if he would stride. When you coil do you feel it in your butt cheek or in your groin?

[Tyler Lowe]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oPEd1faOikY Today I felt it both in my groin and butt cheek. Still tho when I watch this video I see myself get into my hip and then move forward only stretching my upper. I need to keep my going around feeling in my back leg as well. That should also help me stay back as I am pushing forward in this video. Would you agree or disagree? I big thing I need to battle is less is more in my upper. I have a bad habit of trying to feel my stretch simply by turn the shoulders instead of really stretching in my back. Any tips on how to really work on my sequencing of trying to figure out my lower leg coil while moving forward. Thanks!

[Mike]

My hitters have had some success with an angled box. Gives a different feel. Just a suggestion.

[Mike]

Coach Soraino has a lot of great demonstrations of drills. Here is the hover drill.

[Tyler Lowe]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oPEd1faOikY Here’s an elevated front side swing. My back side feels different. Feels like it’s not pushing as much forward. Lemme know what you think!

[Mike]

I think it looks better. Resist more with your upper body.

[Mike]

Coach Soraino has a lot of great demonstrations of drills. Here is the hover drill.

Resist more with the upper body. Look at coach here how much his elbow and upper body creates resistance. Practice taking longer to load more.

[Tyler Lowe]

Shoot lol I posted the wrong video haha here’s the elevated front foot one. My bad https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z5_DONg2820

[Mike]

I think that is a better position. A fused torso should feel different within your swing. How does it feel?

[Mike]

I think that is a better position. A fused torso should feel different within your swing. How does it feel?

He can not see the barrel come around.....because.....his torso is being driven/turned by the legs.....FAR AHEAD OF THE BARREL.....because....his arms are not pulling nor pushing it forward. The JUST.....turn the barrel.

Everyone on the internet....except HI.com.....will deny that you saw this barrel path.
Everyone on the interent....except HI.com.....will tell you that that scap is not held.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE....to do what you see.....and not hold the scap.

Here is Richard explaining the fused torso.

[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.

I think your swing is real good, my concern is when you get to live are you fused and connected or are you going to swing from the upper half 1st ahead of the lower half. This was an issue with my players until we focused on fused torso and TTB rearward.

[Tyler Lowe]

It feels a lot different for sure. I’m actually really feeling the coil and stretch instead of just turning my upper which I am a culprit of in the past. I really really need to work on my snap tho and get so comfortable I can do it against live like you said.

[Mike]

It feels a lot different for sure. I’m actually really feeling the coil and stretch instead of just turning my upper which I am a culprit of in the past. I really really need to work on my snap tho and get so comfortable I can do it against live like you said.

That’s awesome Tyler. You’ll find it . I know my comments can frustrate you sometimes but as long as you keep an open mind like you do and keep swinging , that high level swing will reveal itself. I think it’s a little tougher because you have a great swing already and it’s obvious you swing the bat real well so letting go of one swing and trying on another can be real tough. The fight continues