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11:05 am
QuoteMy daughter has been a rotational hitter all her life. She is 16 now. On her JV High School team she batted .417. I switched her to a new travel team and the coach teaches linear hitting. Now the coach is trying to convert my daughter to linear hitting. And up to now my daughter is struggling at the plate batting around .250 or so. Is my daughter too set in her ways to switch at this time? Should I have the coach stop changing her batting and have her switch back to rotational? Thank you."
2:14 am
Sean,
I realize that this post is a little old, but maybe this can help other parents with the same situation. My philosophy has always been, "If its not broke, don't fix it!" If she is hitting .417, then that probably means she was seeing the ball just right and didn't need to change. This is of course, unless the travel ball tournaments are a higher caliber of play than the JV/Varsity High School (which a lot of times is the case). If he is just trying to get her to pivot around for the faster pitching- it may be necessary to change it up. My high school division was nothing compared to playing in travel ball tournaments. I always had difficulty come off the travel ball season, because the pitchers were so much slower when I played high school. In college, I went from one season being a great outside ball hitter (trouble on the the inside), to my sophomore year killing the inside pitch. In softball, it is always about making the adjustments that will work for you.
-T-
10:39 am
Most people I've seen teach "rotational" don't know as much as they think they do. All people I've seen professing to teach "linear" are clueless. Depending on who you are referencing I know of several definitions for "rotational". Every hitting "guru" but one out there has failed my test of "Compare everything anyone teaches you about hitting to lots of slow motion video of the best in the world. Let that be your first truth detector." Only person on the net I haven't been able to dismiss using that test is Steve Englishbey.
Google Siggy's hitting clips for a bunch of clips of elite female fp hitters.
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