Try this instead: go to my article on lower body mechanics. We throw turning baseball bat blanks relationship, and for most of us, hit one-way our whole career. The plan is to make an ongoing discussion about baseball hitting mechanics theory and philosophy over time. Your question is a good one. Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. As a result, the upper body has to chip in, thanks to poor hip engagement. Now, that being said…when I ask if your hitter is fast.

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As far as bat speed goes, any time you decrease arm activation you body must increase turning speed to hit the ball farther. It has no choice. In total agreement that attacking the ball start with the bottom half. Everyone talks about hitting against a front stiff leg.

Does the front leg straighted because the back hip is firing??? Any ideas or drills that can help thrust his hips? Many people ask me this question. Imagine your hands are glued to your steering wheel of your car. That is the idea of being passively moved. That means your left hand did nothing, but again, it was glued to the wheel so it had to go along.

So, if you have the back leg and hip getting pulled through by your core, then your front leg can actively push the front hip away from home plate and back towards the catcher. Now imagine your hands are glued to the steering wheel again…only this time, a deer ran in front of your car.

Would you swerve with one hand working and one hand not or would you have both hands helping to steer your car? As far as drills go, swing on an uphill slope with your front foot up the hill. Once his front foot lands make sure he straightens his leg HARD! That should do the trick. Great articles, you describe everything so well in detail.. How can you tell the player honestly completed the turn, what do I look out for to notice a player really completes the turn?

Hey Chas, really appreciate all of your blogs and videos, really good stuff! Just wondering how I can achieve the fall forward you talk about while still being under control. I also have seen the videos of AJ bumpass and he seems to have a very aggressive move forward. AJ did that in games for a while, but that was more of a teaching point. Slow and soft on the front side sounds great to me, must make sure you get your front foot open and bent front knee at landing.

Hey thanks for the response Chas. It was really amazing to see and to feel the difference. Thanks for sharing all of this information and I look forward to reading your future posts! Chas i wanted to ask how does a wide stance equal a long bat path and what do you consider a wide stance. Also i thought you wanted longer strides because in some videos your strides are pretty long and are you an advocate of the knob at the catcher ordeal.

Chaz How do u feel about mike stanton and his toe tap. Love to hear what u would say about him. Toe tap he uses for timing and strides forward. His head is not in center of stance but back where is his back knee is. Yeah those are older videos from our first YouTube account.

We will check into that quickly. Thanks for the heads up! Chaz I know your Blackfoot should be off the ground after full rotation.

I usually end up with my toes on the ground and back heel is up. What can I do to get my back foot off the ground. I have refined my swing following a lot of your techniques. Thank you! Then transfer it to T work then front toss — then… you own it.

You built it — it yours. Oh these poor kids. Then I was able to ask the son what technical improvements he made in the lesson — None. Chas you have to get out there more, these poor kids. Lately i have been getting jammed a lot and i almost feel like my hands are staying too far back for too long and that i am not using my arms enough.. I have also heard you talk about the shoulders and arms being married to each other. If i use my lower half and core properly to swing the bat will that Force my hands to stay connected to my shoulders?

If so do you have any drills that will teach this? I am having a hard time on how to work on this concept. OK great thanks for the response. I actually have another question for you. I just watched your webinar on the front hip on YouTube. You talk about the front leg straightening. Is that a result from landing in the proper position and pushing through your front heel forcing that leg to straighten?

Or is it a result from turning your front hip properly? Also you talk a lot about what the back hip does in your articles. I feel like if you try to turn your swing with more effort on the front hip this would create more torque as I see in any high level swing that the front hip looks like its doing more work than the back.

Dominance of the turn can depend on pitch by pitch location and adjustment of timing by the hitter. I have a question regarding some of the photos above. If you look at the pictures of Chas above, in the third picture he is at the start of the hip turn, but I noticed that the front foot is barely open.

I am wondering why that is the case if what you are teaching is an open foot at landing? I do my best to keep my articles in tact as they were written. That picture now, would look much different, but the concept of the article is about the back leg and back foot, so I decided to leave it.

I should probably re-do the pictures, but I leave them up to show our evolution at Baseball Rebellion and to prove that we own our mistakes. Thanks Chas. That is a fair answer as hitting is always evolving, and we are always learning more. Chas, I have a question about the back leg.

Epstein actually has two drills the wall drill and the carpet drill to teach this movement. I have also read elsewhere that the rear knee drives both forward and downward which helps with the hinge or tilt.

Your question is a good one. Enjoyed the article. Would you agree that this is like a pitcher to some degree at release where they have not released that back leg to come through? I really enjoy reading your articles. Thanks for all of the helpful information. Sometimes we do, but not often. Mostly we focus on our Online Instruction for out of town clients. You must be logged in to post a comment.

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