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What bouldersdad said! LOL. His post wasn't up when I started typing.
Agreed, Dest prob hits close to 300 balls a week.I agree with Mad Hornet and Bouldersdad. Instruction is key if you want to progress. However the hitter also needs to do A LOT of tee work and front/ side toss to reinforce the techniques being taught in the lesson. Without this lessons are pretty much useless. Pitchers practice their skill for many hours a week, to keep up hitters need to do the same.
He is the best. Funny story she was bickering with me while on a water break about how to lay her index finger on her top hand. Tim was telling her if I see that finger like that again your gonna swing with one hand. She comes to me and says I tought I should hold it like that. I said your holding it flat against the hadle strait up to the barrel like you have a splint on your finger. No i'm not, yes you are blah blah. Tim comes over you were holding it just like this and shows her. Red faced she smirked and didnt say a word. It was prieless!!! Oh the respect she has for him.:lmao:If you can find the right instruction and that person really cares that your DD gets better and acheives her dreams and is not in it just for the money then it's not a crock. My DD acheived her dream of playing college softball because she found the right hitting instruction from Tim Duncan and put in some hard work and sacrificed alot to acheive those dreams. Tim is the kind of hitting coach that incourages his students to call him if they our at their games and having problems hitting for some really good advice. In the case of my DD he could usually fix her over the phone. He also attend a camp that my DD was going to and we did not know he was coming, he did it just to show support for my DD. At some tourys. I would tell my DD that Tim was coming even when I knew he wasn't she would knock the socks off of balls in those games, she never wanted to let him down. Even thou she is in college she still comes home for hitting lessons from Tim. She just loves the big guy.
My DD sees bouldersdad every week. It has helped her swing and swagger.
hitter - I hear what you are saying. I am referencing instructors who do not make the delineations that you made above recognizing the differences in body types and physics of the game. I wont name names but there are some instructors in SWO that are ruining some swings in my opinion.