Website design By BotEap.comI see whip effect on the baseball swing. When you hit a whip, there has to be a deceleration for the energy to transfer to the tip of the whip. The arm has to slow down to break a whip.

Website design By BotEap.comWe need to understand how energy is transferred to the head of the bat in a swing to address the obsession with rotation that is taught in today’s baseball swing. One way to illustrate proper energy transfer could be to take a bucket of water and toss the water into the bucket at someone. If I were to rotate my arms with the rest of my body and not stop their rotational movement (or slow down the arms), the water would mostly miss my target and fly in a circular path towards my target and around my body, even behind . I. The water in the bucket would not have been energized in such a way as to directly and completely hit my intended target. The transfer of energy from the launcher to the water in the bucket never occurred with the rotation pattern of the launch.

Website design By BotEap.comTo get the water out of the bucket and hit my goal with full force, I have to hold my arms (slow them down) in the direction of my goal. There is a reinforcing effect that occurs and then it transfers from my body and then to the bucket, the bucket rests and the water is expelled towards my target.

Website design By BotEap.comWhat you see with what I teach, and what you see with what biomechanics teach in golf and other sports, but you don’t hear much about baseball, you have to understand this idea of ​​breaking the whip. Our goal is not to rotate. Our goal is to deliver energy to the head of the bat so that it reaches the ball. The goal is not rotation.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen you hit a baseball, your legs must create forward momentum by transferring energy to the front leg, with the energy working from the larger base segments upward, just like when you dump the water from the bucket. When you make that transfer from back leg to front leg on your baseball swing, your body must prepare to allow energy to transfer to your hands and bat.

Website design By BotEap.comThe hands and the bat are the equivalent of the water in the bucket. The braces and the hands and the bat are ejected. We are not trying to hit the baseball by rotating our body through the contact of the baseball. We should not be turned by the contact of the baseball. It doesn’t look good, but yet a lot of coaches are talking about hips, hips, hips and turning the back foot and are giving that kind of baseball instruction.

Website design By BotEap.comUnderstanding the whip effect will help you understand natural movement, natural swing, the way it occurs in all other sports that require a throwing action. Think about it and name another sport where your goal is to spin your back foot. Many baseball coaches are teaching their students to turn the back foot to rotate the player’s hips. Name any other sports in which you see this type of instruction or this type of throwing pattern.

Website design By BotEap.comIn tennis, golf, shot put, throwing or hitting any ball, we are transferring our energy in a straight line towards our goal. You don’t see back foot turning in any of these sports or any other. This rotational hysteria is taking over baseball, but it doesn’t exist in any other sport. With hitting in the last decade, coaches are teaching and we are seeing an epidemic of spinners.

Website design By BotEap.comRotation occurs on the swing. No doubt about that. However, it occurs as part of a straight-line movement of the back leg. It is a lateral impulse of energy in a straight line towards your target. If I throw a baseball and turn my back leg, what effect will that have on the force my leg creates and the direction of the ball? Rotating the rear leg in a throw would compromise the momentum of the rear leg and send the direction of the throw away from its intended target.

Website design By BotEap.comInstead, if you drive hard in a straight line toward your desired goal when throwing a baseball, your hips will naturally rotate after the momentum of your legs in a straight-line direction toward your target. Your hips will rotate much faster when you cast without trying to rotate.

Website design By BotEap.comThe water coming out of the bucket is a great concept. We are slowing down and transferring energy and working in a straight line. Rotation will occur naturally. The hips will rotate and pull on the upper torso. Rotation will occur without attempting to rotate.

Website design By BotEap.comWe should work in a straight line when attacking a baseball to hit it. The front leg will block the transfer, then open the hips from the front. As the parts of our body begin to rotate naturally and sequentially after the change in a straight line, and we learn to slow down the parts of our body just before contact, the enormous force of energy will flow into our hands and then into the bat and then to the ball.

Website design By BotEap.comThat’s why you hear professional hitters talk a lot about hands. They may not biomechanically understand why they speak of hands, but they speak of hands because the hands are all they feel as they move through the contact of the baseball.

Website design By BotEap.comFor great hitters, at the moment of truth in ball contact, all energy has been channeled into the hands.