Over the yrs. I have seen MANY drills wherein my main thought is along the lines of: How in the world does this drill either help to overcome the flaws I see in this hitter; or how does this in any way help to develop high level movement?!
Today I saw yet another ex. of this. Context a 12 yr old was told to swing [tee swing] while having the lead leg flexed/off the ground and with the back leg slightly externally rotated.
Result? A complete arm swing ,i.e., very little trunk rotation/arms far in front of the base/elbows almost at full extension at contact. Why this result?
In taking away the lead leg you take away 50% of the base of support---which then forces the back leg to take on twice it's normal load, thus forcing it to work unduly hard to try to stabilize against against any trunk rotation.
Thus resulting in RESTRICTING trunk rotation. Thus forcing the arms and articulations of the deltoid [not the more proximal scapula unloading] to try to create the displacement of the knob/bat.
All of which led to a very weak swing and [of course] a very poor chain of actions that in no manner would help the hitter to work towards a physical understanding as to how to effectively create and transfer momentum.
Sadly, another ex. of an ignorant dad [yea the dad was there watching] wasting his money on instruction that will not help his son develop his true potential.
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