Taylor Gardner Part-2: ANSWERED: Most Hitters Want to Pivot On Back Foot Instead of With the Hip, A Key To Prevent That?
Taylor Gardner co-founder of the Backspin Tee, in this Part-2 interview (Part-1 was in Issue #1)
ANSWERED: Most Hitters Want to Pivot On Back Foot Instead of With the Hip, A Key To Prevent That?
Here’s some of what will be discussed:
- What is the role of the hands in a swing? Removing the "arm-yness" of youth swings. I struggle getting them to not want to pull the bat forward linearly.
- “Because your spinal engine is what dominates our swing, we know that the swing kind of starts inside out not so much ground up...”
- “I like to take the weight of the bat completely out of the equation. And let them self-organize by swinging a wiffle ball bat...”
- Most still want to pivot on foot instead of with the Hip, a key to prevent that?
- “What you have to keep in mind is that there is mobility, ankle mobility issues at work here as well...”
- “We like to use the coaching cue of ‘hit it first, rotate second’. And it's just a cue...”
- “I fear for the coaches that there's a lot of them out there that don't understand timing or buying time...
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Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: https://gohpl.com/3kLoNFN