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airplouffe86
12-30-2007, 12:47 AM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iLsNWP5ARm0
Im a college ball player...
All advice is welcome
Ide like feedback on things im doing well and what i could improve on compared to a major league swing
thanks
-Sean
Go Cardinals
12-30-2007, 01:15 AM
Where do you play?
Deemax
12-30-2007, 06:07 AM
IMO you would benefit a great deal by creating a running start with your hands, and making sure that your mid-section is leading the way.
This advice does not gurantee hitting better, but hitting it harder and farther.....thats another story.
Hand action...running start
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/deemax32/WClark3.gif
Mid-section leading the way into footplant.
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/deemax32/Delgado2.gif
Drill
12-30-2007, 06:31 AM
Video is too dark.
agree
with a black shirt on and a dark vid, its just hard to see. I looks like you are sitting in a chair swinging the bat.
drill
Deemax
12-30-2007, 06:36 AM
blow the video up to the full screen version...much easier to see.
Chris O'Leary
12-30-2007, 07:27 AM
[QUOTE=airplouffe86;1080534Im a college ball player...All advice is welcome
Ide like feedback on things im doing well and what i could improve on compared to a major league swing[/QUOTE]
Are you trying to squish the bug?
I ask because your lower body action isn't quite right.
airplouffe86
12-30-2007, 12:48 PM
Where do you play?
I bat 3 hole for Montgomery College Rockville
Are you trying to squish the bug?
I ask because your lower body action isn't quite right.
What isnt quite right? how do i fix it?
Chris O'Leary
12-30-2007, 01:27 PM
What isnt quite right? how do i fix it?
Do you normally take no stride and have no weight shift?
airplouffe86
12-30-2007, 08:26 PM
yes i have no stride and ive taken out most of my weight shift because i was out in front alot
Chris O'Leary
12-30-2007, 08:36 PM
yes i have no stride and ive taken out most of my weight shift because i was out in front alot
While there's nothing necessarily wrong with going no stride (it's what Pujols does), the problem with eliminating the weight shift is that it can rob you of power by limiting your hip rotation.
There are ways of staying back while still shifting your weight, if not striding.
Watch what Will Clark does in the clip below. How he strides into a bent front knee and then stiffens it. This helps to rotate his hips and thus his shoulders.
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/deemax32/WClark3.gif
Sure have been seeing alot of Will Clark recently...maybe we could find some Jim Gentile also. Happy New Year.:)
swingbuilder
12-31-2007, 08:52 AM
Pujols Strides!
Airplouffe, you have condenced your swing down to make contact. The swings you have shown are about contact. Something you can get away with as long as your swinging an aluminum bat. Most likely you have condenced your swing because you struggle with off speed pitches and making contact.
I see dead hands and no momentum. When you center the ball in the sweetest part of the aluminum you probably hit it pretty good. You'd have to run a 6.3 60 yard dash with that swing with a wood bat in your hands.
airplouffe86
12-31-2007, 08:23 PM
Pujols Strides!
Airplouffe, you have condenced your swing down to make contact. The swings you have shown are about contact. Something you can get away with as long as your swinging an aluminum bat. Most likely you have condenced your swing because you struggle with off speed pitches and making contact.
I see dead hands and no momentum. When you center the ball in the sweetest part of the aluminum you probably hit it pretty good. You'd have to run a 6.3 60 yard dash with that swing with a wood bat in your hands.
I appreciate advise, but how can you assume i struggle hitting off speed and struggle making contact (isnt that what hitting is?)
I played in the Clark Griffith Collegiate League (wood bat)
Yes i have a short swing...thats how ive been taught
Seems like your basically assuming I have no power...I bat 3rd on a college baseball team!
Baseball gLove
12-31-2007, 08:43 PM
Any relation to Trevor (same last name as yours) of the New Britain Rock Cats (Twins). He is an alumnus from my son's high school.
Deemax
12-31-2007, 11:22 PM
plouffeSeems like your basically assuming I have no power...I bat 3rd on a college baseball team!
If you are Sean Plouffe, you hit .253 last year with 1 home run in 79 at bats. Do you think you are capable of better numbers? I think you are.
airplouffe86
12-31-2007, 11:41 PM
plouffe
If you are Sean Plouffe, you hit .253 last year with 1 home run in 79 at bats. Do you think you are capable of better numbers? I think you are.
I appreciate that...i do think im capable of better :twocents:
Go Cardinals
12-31-2007, 11:57 PM
While there's nothing necessarily wrong with going no stride (it's what Pujols does),
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/deemax32/WClark3.gif
No your WRONG!!!! he doesn't no stride!!!!!
http://recruit.hittingillustrated.com/Pujols.htm
He strides!!! He was the best weight transfer imo in the bigs!!! Where that lead arm extension clip of Pujols (07).
swingbuilder
01-01-2008, 08:18 AM
I appreciate advise, but how can you assume i struggle hitting off speed and struggle making contact (isnt that what hitting is?)
I played in the Clark Griffith Collegiate League (wood bat)
Yes i have a short swing...thats how ive been taught
Seems like your basically assuming I have no power...I bat 3rd on a college baseball team!
By looking at the swings you showed us.
Chris O'Leary
01-01-2008, 08:48 AM
No your WRONG!!!! he doesn't no stride!!!!!
http://recruit.hittingillustrated.com/Pujols.htm
He strides!!! He was the best weight transfer imo in the bigs!!! Where that lead arm extension clip of Pujols (07).
In many swings, Pujols takes little to no stride. He just lifts up his front heel and puts it back down.
http://www.hittingillustrated.com/Pujols/Pujols15.gif
That doesn't mean he doesn't shift his weight.
swingbuilder
01-01-2008, 09:05 AM
In many swings, Pujols takes little to no stride. He just lifts up his front heel and puts it back down.
http://www.hittingillustrated.com/Pujols/Pujols15.gif
That doesn't mean he doesn't shift his weight.
Chris, Pujols strides. Look closely at the clip you supplied. If you were to take this same clip and view it from the open side. You would see the foot move forward as well as the toe leave the ground.
so is it no stride? or a little stride? How do you have both?
Chris O'Leary
01-01-2008, 09:17 AM
so is it no stride? or a little stride? How do you have both?
Pujols stride varies from year to year.
Some years it's 4 to 6 inches and other years there's little to no stride.
swingbuilder
01-01-2008, 09:27 AM
But none the less. Its a stride.
Go Cardinals
01-01-2008, 10:14 AM
Chris, I agree it varies from year to year. Anyway, this argument doesn't matter. What is important it... look at how powerful his weight shift is. I wish someone would make a clip of pujols just shifting his weight on a perfect swing... ie not fooled at all and he absolutely obliterated the pitch.
Swing Coach
01-01-2008, 10:44 AM
In these clips, Albert does not stride, but he still gets good weight shift. He obviously gets away with having a wide stance in place of a stride.
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swingbuilder
01-01-2008, 11:49 AM
I have the RVP clip above. He strides.
Swing Coach
01-01-2008, 12:30 PM
There is no stride. if you don't believe the lines, look at Albert's heel...it is in the same exact position in relation to home plate from his stance photo on the left to the photo on the right where he is beginning to rotate.
The point of putting this clip up is to show the college player that he needs some sort of weight shift...whether he strides or not.
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swingbuilder
01-01-2008, 12:45 PM
Sure he needs transfer and sense when did a stride mean moving the foot forward. He strides and he has great transfer. Pujols does not merely shift from back to front.
jbooth
01-01-2008, 01:02 PM
and since when did a stride mean moving the foot forward?
Uh, since the time it was put in the dictionary.
"Stride" not only does mean to move the foot forward, but it means to move it forward in a manner longer than a "step." You might want to crack open a dictionary once in awhile.
Definition of "stride" from dictionary.com;
verb
1. to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
2. to take a long step: to stride across a puddle.
4. to walk with long steps along, on, through, over, etc.: to stride the deck.
5. to pass over or across in one long step: to stride a ditch.
noun
8. a long step in walking.
It's tough to understand what you teach when you think things move differently from Newton's Laws, and you have different meanings for words in the English language, than their dictionary definitions.
paul5150
01-01-2008, 04:19 PM
^^^but thats not what a baseball stride is, technically.
swingbuilder
01-01-2008, 04:24 PM
Jim is so tied into the darn dictionary and to a science book he is out of touch.
Hey Jim, I guess Bagwell didnt stride!:rofl:
jbooth
01-01-2008, 05:54 PM
Jim is so tied into the darn dictionary and to a science book he is out of touch.
Hey Jim, I guess Bagwell didnt stride!:rofl:
Certainly not out of touch with reality, as you seem to be. I find it strange that a person who has just had his ignorance pointed out to him, has the balls to laugh at the person who pointed out the ignorance. Now, THAT is really "out of touch."
About as dumb as an idiot saying 2 + 2 is 5 and then when someone tells him that it is 4, he says, that dang math major, he sure wastes time getting his addition correct, so what if it's not 4. :noidea