Hi Jamie, I am a senior softball player, I have adopted your front arm dominant swing with great success! Your concepts are great. One thing that I do to help the relaxed dropping and flatting of the barrel behind me is I call it ( letting the barrel float), which is- while I am in my batting stance am my bat head is tilted towards the pitcher I have a very loose bat grip hence “ floating” as my body then shoulders and arms begin to turn the barrel falls backward creating a tremendous whipping action. What do you think?
@@DanteLozada. The reason I commented was because he blasted a little kid on my channel. "Jaime doesn't do it" Give me a break, thats all he does here.
@@theswingmechanicit's amazing that your reply here has so fallen out of favor that it is now the minority report, quote unquote "counter intuitive" position. But Babe Ruth had it right. I guess smacking the you-know-what out of the ball is too obvious to be considered prudent tho. People are overthinking it. Same thing has happened in other sports. Someone made a helpful comparison to swinging an axe. Give a young man an axe and four cords of wood... and he'll figure out, in short order, how to maximize square force to the target (key: FOR HIS OWN BODY STRUCTURE AND MUSCULATURE) It's not that hard. But expert instructors need their clients to feel like there's some enigmatic mystery that they and only a few others possess. I'm not as familiar with baseball as I am basketball, but a lot of the best shooters of all time (from Larry Bird to Reggie Miller to Steph Curry) have foundational aspects to their shooting forms which are frowned upon by most of today's "shooting mechanic instructors" You mentioned MMA and the haymaker finally being accepted as a highly valid punch. It's high time. Anyway, I'm a baseball casual but subbed here as I find your analyses super interesting as well as analogically relatable to other disciplines as well. Question: have you considered doing a video on the progression of Tony Gwynn's batting? Apparently in 1997, Gwynn finally heeded the advice of his friend and mentor Ted Williams and took up a bigger bat as well as a more power-hitting form. Williams also wanted him attacking the ball, instead of slapping it. He was suddenly hitting with much more power (HR's went up ⬆️ from 3 to almost 20 per season). You know what else went up? His batting average. He hit 372 that season. This was at 38 years old. Oh and the Padres made the World Series. Go figure. Was he slugging it like Barry Bonds? No. But the move _toward_ more aggressive power-oriented hitting was something Gwynn later said he'd wished he'd adopted earlier in his career. I'd be curious to hear/ see your take on this. It seems like an interesting example for the things you talk about. Cheers
Find Carrol hitting a ball on the tee or easy bp and his front arm will almost look identical to Arraez. Teaching the front arm like you are throwing a sack of potatoes is the worst idea, maybe ever. You confuse athletic properties (home run highlights) for bio-mechanical properties. Again, if you weren't critiquing little kid swings on my channel you would never hear from me.
@@RonSullivanHittingso what most of the players look like in their highlights does not matter? If have a straiter front arm is bad, then there are a whole lot of major league players that’s have done it through the years and even still today
Hi Jamie, I am a senior softball player, I have adopted your front arm dominant swing with great success! Your concepts are great. One thing that I do to help the relaxed dropping and flatting of the barrel behind me is I call it ( letting the barrel float), which is- while I am in my batting stance am my bat head is tilted towards the pitcher I have a very loose bat grip hence “ floating” as my body then shoulders and arms begin to turn the barrel falls backward creating a tremendous whipping action. What do you think?
Yes I know what you are talking about. That’s great!
Whats your recommendation for improving hitting off-speed pitches
View more pitches. Most players don't see nearly enough pitches.
Considering he didn't recognize Arraez WAS adjusting to off speed here, he probably couldn't tell you.
@@DanteLozada. The reason I commented was because he blasted a little kid on my channel. "Jaime doesn't do it" Give me a break, thats all he does here.
the amount of flexion in the bottom hand arm intentionally ignored at 10:02
I don’t know why you are so against this front arm dominance method. It’s way more powerful than the back arm/top hand that is being taught.
@@LG-pg2yu 1. Front arm dominance will promote front "side" dominance. 2. There are two hands holding the bat. 3. I actually do this as my real job.
I thought the name of the game was to hit and get on base so that you can possibly win
No, it's to hit it so far you can jog around the bases.
@@theswingmechanicit's amazing that your reply here has so fallen out of favor that it is now the minority report, quote unquote "counter intuitive" position.
But Babe Ruth had it right.
I guess smacking the you-know-what out of the ball is too obvious to be considered prudent tho. People are overthinking it. Same thing has happened in other sports.
Someone made a helpful comparison to swinging an axe. Give a young man an axe and four cords of wood... and he'll figure out, in short order, how to maximize square force to the target (key: FOR HIS OWN BODY STRUCTURE AND MUSCULATURE)
It's not that hard. But expert instructors need their clients to feel like there's some enigmatic mystery that they and only a few others possess. I'm not as familiar with baseball as I am basketball, but a lot of the best shooters of all time (from Larry Bird to Reggie Miller to Steph Curry) have foundational aspects to their shooting forms which are frowned upon by most of today's "shooting mechanic instructors"
You mentioned MMA and the haymaker finally being accepted as a highly valid punch. It's high time.
Anyway, I'm a baseball casual but subbed here as I find your analyses super interesting as well as analogically relatable to other disciplines as well.
Question: have you considered doing a video on the progression of Tony Gwynn's batting? Apparently in 1997, Gwynn finally heeded the advice of his friend and mentor Ted Williams and took up a bigger bat as well as a more power-hitting form. Williams also wanted him attacking the ball, instead of slapping it. He was suddenly hitting with much more power (HR's went up ⬆️ from 3 to almost 20 per season). You know what else went up? His batting average. He hit 372 that season. This was at 38 years old. Oh and the Padres made the World Series. Go figure.
Was he slugging it like Barry Bonds? No. But the move _toward_ more aggressive power-oriented hitting was something Gwynn later said he'd wished he'd adopted earlier in his career. I'd be curious to hear/ see your take on this. It seems like an interesting example for the things you talk about.
Cheers
Like reading an encyclopedia backwards.
What is?
Find Carrol hitting a ball on the tee or easy bp and his front arm will almost look identical to Arraez. Teaching the front arm like you are throwing a sack of potatoes is the worst idea, maybe ever. You confuse athletic properties (home run highlights) for bio-mechanical properties. Again, if you weren't critiquing little kid swings on my channel you would never hear from me.
@@RonSullivanHitting no I appreciate your criticism man. 🙏👍
@@RonSullivanHittingShoukd be like throwing a frisbee. Kids are taught to be too stiff imo. But what do I know. Not a You Tube expert
@@RonSullivanHittingso what most of the players look like in their highlights does not matter?
If have a straiter front arm is bad, then there are a whole lot of major league players that’s have done it through the years and even still today
Corbin Carroll does not weigh 165, that’s his weight when drafted.
Yeah? And?
@@theswingmechanic well that’s a bit misleading since that’s not his current weight when playing
@@Ian-td9dd that’s the weight listed on baseball reference WHICH HAS EVERYONE’S ROOKIE WEIGHT. So apples to apples.
@@theswingmechanic because some rookies gain more weight then others overtime so the difference may be more or less then you think
You really didn't say anything.
You really weren’t listening