The game is hard. Really hard when you’re off. Weeks ago I posted this comparison. You can tell by watching which barrel will be shorter to the zone when released. The knob going up instantly is key. In this WS at bat the knob is not pivoted upward instantly like in the side by side video. In fact it resembles the swing on the right. Without the instant pivot of the knob, it’s very difficult to time pitches. When you have to deal with this swing length (both in time and distance) against pitches that come from high 90’s to 75, hitting is extremely hard.

Volume up. The launch quickness of the rearward snap/arc is on display. He loads to his launch position. On time. Then snaps the barrel into a rearward arc. Every time. Regardless of pitch location. As the barrel is going around that rearward arc, his hand/eye coordination licks on and makes automatic location adjustments.

It’s a one move swing. The swing decision is never where….its simply yes or no. Swing. Or not. If yes snap it into the rearward arc and turn the locating over to your amazing hand/eye automatic coordinate adjusting system. You’ve made a decision that this pitch is going to be in the strike zone. You snap it. Rearward. All in. Adjustment to specific/exact pitch location happens AFTER launch not before. The barrel is already speeding around the arc. Your hand/eye makes the adjustment to specific location ‘on the fly’

Manny launching a rearward arc.
JJ pushing to a specific location.

Manny determined location after launch

JJ couldn’t launch until he decided ‘where’

Manny has launch quickness.
JJ does not.

They wrote a book called ‘Hacking The Kinetic Chain’.

This is their ‘hack’ of a swing. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Let’s explore. 🙂🙂 1. Their belief that the hips start the swing is on display. But…..the leg/knee starts first in great hitters.

Ooops. They might want to give some time to reviewing video of the greats.

Both are homers.

Athlete with

Athlete without You say same as Bonds? Not close.

Bonds’ back

Jazz’ arms.

DeRo paying attention. Seeing more. But his MASSIVE EGO won’t let him search for truth. Truth is not his goal. He can’t handle the possibility (it’s true) that what he knows, from what he did…….was not what the greats did. There was a better way. Chris Young, a significantly better hitter than DeRo ‘gets it’. In fact, I studied him back in the day (lost his videos in a laptop crash) He was very much within the high level pattern. Must likely without knowing it. Mostly natural.

I have a long flight today. Assuming I have internet on the plane, I will finish this thread by revealing its answer. I’ll be showing what surface dwellers can’t see because they don’t swing to duplicate. It’ll be SO good. 👍👍

https://twitter.com/Teacherman1986/status/1756838686292115843

Let’s start with this video…. Volume up. “I could swing from here”.

To not torque the handle into a rearward arc instantly at decision…..is to drag the barrel and create timing issues. Furthermore, the rearward acceleration is the shortest path to the ball. Shorter. And far quicker. Watch the rear leg pivot deliver the rearward barrel to the ball. All the greats have this move.

Swinging with a spring on the left. Swinging without a spring on the right. The above video shows swings that are synced to contact. It tells a story. In this video the swings are synced to solid foot plant. It reveals the truth.

Ball anxiety, needing exact pitch location before you can swing, is the biggest obstacle standing between you and your potential. It requires too much info, that takes too much time to process, which puts you in a compromised timing position. All decel teaching, all ‘get your foot down’ teaching, and all forward push swings require exact pitch location before you can swing.
A running start into the swing allows the hitter to get deep into the process before final commitment. The final direction is basically an involuntary, hand/eye coordination move. It’s not a decision. The barrel goes where you’re looking. The body bends/contorts/pivots as necessary. Involuntarily. Subconsciously. The hitter creates a rearward arc that the ball eventually runs into. That running start comes from the rearward launch.

Most don’t understand the ‘ready at release’ concept. It’s because their mechanics are momentum based not stretch based. They have no suddenness to their launch. Therefore there is no such thing as ready, let alone a controlled ready. They sweep the bat through instead of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… This is a fastball/changeup drill. The first pitch is the changeup. It’s the ball from the feeder. The second pitch is the fastball. It’s the ball I flick into the track. (I catch the other ball) Pitch release in this drill is not the actual moment the ball comes out of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

This is an outstanding view of swinging ‘out from’ your body not ‘around’ your body. All great hitters swing ‘out from’. It also debunks the Cunha/Bleecker/farm board ‘across your body’ nonsense.

Morning truth for @MyTPI and @OnBaseU. Watch the belt loop in the red circle. It’s constantly and continuously coiling rearward.....AS.....he achieves what they call hip/shoulder separation. They define hip/shoulder separation as open hips closed shoulders. Uh oh. Hips are closed His hip is still closed in the rear hip socket. Not open like they believe. Then, from that point forward, both the leg and that belt loop (hip) turn in unison.

Limbo comes from shifting weight before launch. No solid platform the instant you need to launch. Slop. Slack. You’re between legs. Often. Not grounded.Example of limbo:No solid platform to launch from versus real solid platform.Assuming equal ability, who wins the first 10 yds? Max coil is THE SOLID PLATFORM.

@tyhann44 @ChezWhizzz Manny swing is a great example of what is discussed in this video. A downward launch that turns up because it is launched from one leg not two. There have been so many explanations of one leggedness that if people reject its because they are closed minded @tyhann44 @ChezWhizzz From “you have to launch from max coil” (impossible to shift weight and be max coiled) to “the swing weights the front leg” to “the back muscles pulling back as you go forward keeps the weight in the back leg” (every great hitter does this) to.....

Two IG posters are afraid to come to Twitter where video can be exchanged to prove points. lumberyardmechanic and outsidethebox21 need to hide from video. They are both backed into a corner where their next statement must be “you are correct, Teacherman”, but the won’t say it. 🙂 I will expose them here with the Manny duplication contest. In the meantime they support the swing on the right here.

Gear engagement. Blue turns when engaged with yellow. In hitting, our gears are aligned differently. We have a vertical gear that engages with a horizontal gear. But the engagement is very important. Gear engagement is where the snap is created.

OK folks. A better internet session but still not without a hiccup. I've ended the stream. I'll contact Crowdcast again to get the bottom of this. We did better but we have a ways to go. I do believe the information got recorded so take a look. See you next time. Unanswered question 1: In my drills I talk alot about oppo. Do I ever work pull side? The oppo swing is the pull side swing. Upper body is exactly the same. And best learned oppo because of the stretch. When we go to flips, they come at any location. Same swing hits all.

pscp.tv/w/b03dlDF4Tmph… As a follow up to this periscope you have to understand that the body does this coiling/stretching NOT to unload the body but to support the unload the barrel. The thing that gets unloaded must be the barrel. Instantly. Suddenly. At go. The hands/forearms/barrel is what unloads.

The Corner Drill. The sling shot. Leg is the handle. Hip coil and back muscles are the band. Stretch it. SNAP!!

It’s travel time. Train. Plane. Car. Let’s talk about the word down. Barrel starts above your shoulders. It hits the ball below the sternum. It clearly went down. The real question is not down or up. It is HOW it went down. Because it isn’t arguable. The barrel went down. Why is down important? Why do great hitters insist they swung down? What is meant by ‘stay on top of the ball’? The reasons are quite good. Physically sound. And necessary for the task at hand.

Sticking with the topic of a pulling rear leg, the slingshot, it comes in many shapes and sizes. An All-American here with a very simple example. Did you see this in that swing? It’s there. And it’s critical to the slingshot. Critical to suddenness. Most think the arc represents the barrel path. It does not. Although the barrel will take that path on low pitches. It represents the action of your back muscles.