Donna, a lady who plays in the Villages, put out a great effort in improving consistency with a 7mph ave increase of exit speed. Swinging the DeMarini Paul Sadler. www.sportstechnique.com Swing Makeover show…all shows on our website in order.
A proper swing has two different parts to it this is your B you pull the hands back you counter rotate you keep the weight in the back foot and then there’s boom where your hips rotate drives your shoulders open you can see the hip rotation here front foot comes down the
Rotation plants it and then you watch where the hands are driven off that hip rotation off the rear hip on a straight line to the bottom of the ball and the Top Hand blows past the top the bottom hand for the snap look at Robert Blackburn on a little pitch he creates a
Lag right here a lag and then as the Top Hand goes past the bottom you get that whipping snap as fast as you absolutely can so taking that in mind we looked at our lesson Donna here from The Villages uh she was an athlete her whole life
Plays short step look at how she drags the bat around just a barn door drag around there’s no lag no snap no um creating of that lag in order to get that whip like Snap Li Blackburn he drives out to the bottom of the ball and
Then when he whips the bat through the top arm extends drives past the bottom hand Top Hand past the bottom hand you get a good whip she’s just dragging around and then the B came up uh Don had a real tendency to to to get into the
Roll over and come up over the top of the ball so we had a really work on that you can see that and that she was early too because she just didn’t have a good wine it just kind of came up that front leg early so we got her bat on the hip
Drill at a slide up angle on the guard R up you can see she has a good rotation very fluid and then throw in the FR be look how nice that is look at that great rotation launch it angle back off the te you can see where she would start down
But then come up roll over the top of the ball so had to really work on an ax style driving laging snap and then again being early so set in the chair work the perfect snap and then on the swing simulat you watch how she drives the
Hands drives the hands and then creates a snap real fast quick and compact all off the hip rotation off the te we you can see her R up over the top of here and then we had to uh get her so she aimed lower and drove the hands faster and slower uh or
Faster and and More Level we went out the hill live then right back to the upswing so what we had to do is we had to get a good angle down we had to practice the swing simul an angle down if she swung down of course the balls
Going to be below your hands at the start as Brett demonstrates here so any Pistons below your chest you have to start down on your rotation will flatten it out so again we added a wine see she added a wine there and the hips are just so much
Faster so much more fluid and the Rope makes you really have fast hands that’s really hard to do and she did a good job you have to explode your hands and drive them down towards the ball or the point of contact in order to do that properly
Once you get off the te we could go ahead and cut the ball this is a great cut look at the lag here bad head goes down knob doesn’t come up when the knob reaches a full extension of lead arm then the Top Hand snaps pack absolutely awesome as Brett demonstrated it again
So that was phenomenal so we look at Donna’s swings here afterwards she had a really work on a downswing and be explosive but she just a line drive after Line Drive um she had a 45 mph 46 mph exit speed at the start and she increased that by about 7 m hour which
Would be 28 ft but her consistency was just so much better absolutely awesome great to have her in cramp and uh she was swinging the D Marin D Marini B good so slow it’s not explos it’s not exploding you’re just you’re just not driving explo you’re not driving exploding Boom
Turn your hip with it turn your hip boom every ball drive that’s how you want to swing at every ball better look at That look at that betterce oh yeah Drive the drive the the knob down and swing fast show show us your pride to swing sure youself your pride of s sh I was trying to uh explode through the ball where I wasn’t doing that before and uh hit the ball on the low Side
