My daughter just cannot get into using her hips and pivoting on every swing. She has pretyy fast hands. She is a big kid for 11 and strong. If she could just put it all together? Are there any good drills that an experienced hitting coach, or fastpitch coach can advise me on to get her just to use her hips and body to improve her swing?
I took
Shorei-
ryu karate in my younger days and for me there is a thrust prior to rotation. A perfectly time punched combined with the thrust on the inside edge of the foot is what the Bruce Lee two inch punch was all about.
Get a concrete block and place it on the outside edge of her back foot.
She will not be able to squish the bug and she must pivot to clear the block.
We teach a slight lift of the heel and focus on driving off the big toe and the toe next to it. This puts the weight more on the inside edge of the foot or everision as it is sometimes termed.
The pivot will not happen at times if the hitter does not understand weight shift in my opinion. If she lands flat footed the weight moves more over the knee and not up against the hip and they become more upper body dominate.
When she throws does her back foot leg release and come forward?
If not she needs to understand when she throws to land on a flexed knee on the ball of her foot.
Then I would start the face the fire drill as it is more like throwing and helps them feel the momentum more in my opinion.
Sadly, most of the clinics are offered in the winter. Hopefully you can find an instructor who can help her now so that results can be seen during bthis summer.
