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April 10, 2005
The "Big Three" plus 1....
(The following is from the SETPRO Instructor's Swing Training Program CD)
The "Big Three" plus 1I feel it's very important to highlight and emphasize that based on my experience working with players, analyzing hundreds of players of all ages and proficiency levels, thousands of hours slow motion video and computer analysis, that there are three fundamental problems that prevent players from ever achieving or coming close to their maximum swing (and by association) and hitting potential.
Those three are:
Posture, ineffective and/or improper set up and use of the body.
Hand dominance, swinging the bat with the hands versus the body
Improper, and effective, nonexistent hip rotation.
The above three are primarily player deficiencies or if you will bad swing habits.
How you order these three is many times arbitrary, they all are equally important. I've placed them in the order that I feel they need to be addressed with respect to the instructional and training process.
There is a fourth (the "plus 1”) which is a contributor and more times than not a cause of much of the above and that is .....
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Posted by PaulNyman at April 10, 2005 06:36 AM