Haven’t watched yet so maybe I’ll come back and edit this, but something that almost everyone overlooks is the importance of just letting your body work how it needs to. Why do you think so many Dominican kids who do nothing but imitate their favorite player’s stance outperform rich kids who get hitting lessons from the age of 5? One extremely common thing getting taught to kids is create power by rotating the hips more or faster, when in fact your body’s natural deceleration pattern is much more important and focusing on rotating the hips gets in the way of that.
Haven’t watched yet so maybe I’ll come back and edit this, but something that almost everyone overlooks is the importance of just letting your body work how it needs to. Why do you think so many Dominican kids who do nothing but imitate their favorite player’s stance outperform rich kids who get hitting lessons from the age of 5?
One extremely common thing getting taught to kids is create power by rotating the hips more or faster, when in fact your body’s natural deceleration pattern is much more important and focusing on rotating the hips gets in the way of that.