Pivot Correctly: Taylor Gardner Explains Proper Hip Rotation to Maximize Hitting Power
Taylor Gardner addresses common swing flaws, focusing on pivot mechanics. Discover how pivoting correctly through the hip rather than the back foot unlocks greater hitting potential.
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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