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The PCR and PCRW crowd, and their insistance that there is no push from the rear foot against the ground, is trapped by something else they promote that is incorrect and not supported by video.
Their insistance that rotation is around the front leg/hip is the root of their problem. You can not rotate around the front hip joint AND push with the rear foot/leg. You can push into a front leg block....which is misinterpreted by them as rotation about the front leg....but you can't rotate about the front leg and push.
To be clear....I'm speaking from the 'feel' of the energy production. The energy is produced by the rear leg and hip. It is directed or kept into rotation by the front leg block.
In order to rotate about the front hip joint, you have to shift then swing. Two steps. Carefully look at their word selection. MarkH (and others) recently parroted PsychoE's "you shift and then very very quickly drop the heel and rotate".
Sounds reasonable. But it is backward. And is very destructive. Yeager says the shift puts the foot down. HE says the rear foot push is done....spent....before the front leg blocks.
I call it one-legged hitting....meaning you ride the back leg and you launch by pushing with the rear leg and hip joint. The launch of the swing puts the foot down. To be more accurate, I should say the launch of the swing 'weights' the front foot/leg....as when the foot gets down is simply a matter of timing on any given pitch. When it is weighted is another matter.
Herein lies the problem. They believe you shift, weight the front foot/leg, then rotate. IF that is the case then there can't be much of a rear leg/foot push. And they continually point to the fact that the rear leg doesn't extend. Which it doesn't. And that is their evidence that there is not a push from that leg. So....they are left with 'rotation from the middle'.
Another culprit of their misinterpretation of the video is their insistance on tilt in the posture. Recently I posted a clip of me sitting and showed how this is misinterpreted as tilt. It is not. It is sit. And the sit includes a little tilt for balancing. It is not tilt that includes a little sit. It is sit that includes a little tilt.
Why is that important? Because with tilt (and turn) you won't use/need the rear leg/foot push. After all....you're not using the rear leg much because you're going to shift to the front leg then rotate (from the middle). Therefore, a large push from the leg is a bad thing. A little push to shift you to the lead leg to rotate is ok. And since they don't see the rear leg extend they conclude that there is no significant push.
But....if you sit....you will feel a rear leg load. You will feel the power in your rear leg. Why? Because when you weight that leg....when you put your weight over/onto it by sitting, you 'feel' what a push can do. And here is the rub.....with that weight over/onto the rear leg, when you push the leg won't extend. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU AREN'T PUSHING....AND PUSHING LIKE HELL. You are pushing somewhat isometrically. Pushing upward, with the leg, against a hip and butt which are sitting downward, isn't necessarily going to produce a large linear weight shift forward. IN FACT, the leg pushing upward against a hip/butt sitting downward as you move forward, WILL OPEN THE HIPS. It will create the rotational lower body running start. It's kind of like they are being squeezed open.
Add to that the proper use of resistance in the upper body.....you will find that the push that doesn't necessarily show up on video exists and is LARGE and very important.
If they would swing a bat live they would learn this. And, IF they would apply their throwing knowledge to hitting, they would KNOW this. This lower body push from the rear leg which is exhausted before the lead leg block....is the same thing that happens in throwing. This is how the body works.
And this leads to the point Garrett made recently....that Nyman is now pooh poohing. The REAL lower body action of the swing is to clear the front hip/leg with the shift, create an offset of the hip bones, and then launch the rear leg and rear hip toward the ball.
The swing is NOT about a horizontal rotational movement of the pelvis. It is NOT about load the rear hip into the front hip and the front hip into the rear hip and stand pigeon toed in an attempt to create more distance over which you can rotate horizontally.
That is a total misread and has led Nyman and therefore 'his boy elroy' to make irroneous conclusions and lead young innocnent kids and their dads astray.
This swing shows everything I just talked about. PCR and PCRW has no answer for this analysis of this swing.
There is no rotation in Bonds swing. There is hand/arm action and a 'pop' of the rear hip into the ball after he has sat, coiled/uncoiled and cleared the front hip....squeezed the hips open....during the shift.
Do you see any aggressive horizontal hip rotation?
Their days are numbered. If Yeager and or Hiddengem visit bbf....they will suffer a fatal attack.
Their insistance that rotation is around the front leg/hip is the root of their problem. You can not rotate around the front hip joint AND push with the rear foot/leg. You can push into a front leg block....which is misinterpreted by them as rotation about the front leg....but you can't rotate about the front leg and push.
To be clear....I'm speaking from the 'feel' of the energy production. The energy is produced by the rear leg and hip. It is directed or kept into rotation by the front leg block.
In order to rotate about the front hip joint, you have to shift then swing. Two steps. Carefully look at their word selection. MarkH (and others) recently parroted PsychoE's "you shift and then very very quickly drop the heel and rotate".
Sounds reasonable. But it is backward. And is very destructive. Yeager says the shift puts the foot down. HE says the rear foot push is done....spent....before the front leg blocks.
I call it one-legged hitting....meaning you ride the back leg and you launch by pushing with the rear leg and hip joint. The launch of the swing puts the foot down. To be more accurate, I should say the launch of the swing 'weights' the front foot/leg....as when the foot gets down is simply a matter of timing on any given pitch. When it is weighted is another matter.
Herein lies the problem. They believe you shift, weight the front foot/leg, then rotate. IF that is the case then there can't be much of a rear leg/foot push. And they continually point to the fact that the rear leg doesn't extend. Which it doesn't. And that is their evidence that there is not a push from that leg. So....they are left with 'rotation from the middle'.
Another culprit of their misinterpretation of the video is their insistance on tilt in the posture. Recently I posted a clip of me sitting and showed how this is misinterpreted as tilt. It is not. It is sit. And the sit includes a little tilt for balancing. It is not tilt that includes a little sit. It is sit that includes a little tilt.
Why is that important? Because with tilt (and turn) you won't use/need the rear leg/foot push. After all....you're not using the rear leg much because you're going to shift to the front leg then rotate (from the middle). Therefore, a large push from the leg is a bad thing. A little push to shift you to the lead leg to rotate is ok. And since they don't see the rear leg extend they conclude that there is no significant push.
But....if you sit....you will feel a rear leg load. You will feel the power in your rear leg. Why? Because when you weight that leg....when you put your weight over/onto it by sitting, you 'feel' what a push can do. And here is the rub.....with that weight over/onto the rear leg, when you push the leg won't extend. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU AREN'T PUSHING....AND PUSHING LIKE HELL. You are pushing somewhat isometrically. Pushing upward, with the leg, against a hip and butt which are sitting downward, isn't necessarily going to produce a large linear weight shift forward. IN FACT, the leg pushing upward against a hip/butt sitting downward as you move forward, WILL OPEN THE HIPS. It will create the rotational lower body running start. It's kind of like they are being squeezed open.
Add to that the proper use of resistance in the upper body.....you will find that the push that doesn't necessarily show up on video exists and is LARGE and very important.
If they would swing a bat live they would learn this. And, IF they would apply their throwing knowledge to hitting, they would KNOW this. This lower body push from the rear leg which is exhausted before the lead leg block....is the same thing that happens in throwing. This is how the body works.
And this leads to the point Garrett made recently....that Nyman is now pooh poohing. The REAL lower body action of the swing is to clear the front hip/leg with the shift, create an offset of the hip bones, and then launch the rear leg and rear hip toward the ball.
The swing is NOT about a horizontal rotational movement of the pelvis. It is NOT about load the rear hip into the front hip and the front hip into the rear hip and stand pigeon toed in an attempt to create more distance over which you can rotate horizontally.
That is a total misread and has led Nyman and therefore 'his boy elroy' to make irroneous conclusions and lead young innocnent kids and their dads astray.
This swing shows everything I just talked about. PCR and PCRW has no answer for this analysis of this swing.
There is no rotation in Bonds swing. There is hand/arm action and a 'pop' of the rear hip into the ball after he has sat, coiled/uncoiled and cleared the front hip....squeezed the hips open....during the shift.
Do you see any aggressive horizontal hip rotation?
Their days are numbered. If Yeager and or Hiddengem visit bbf....they will suffer a fatal attack.
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