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says
2023 Certified Organ Donor
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Looking at how someone does a shot and being able to immediately discern inefficiencies of the biomechanics, then be able to tell the person about the what and how is a skill that surprisingly, not so many coaches seem to have.
Adult learners learn so differently from kids, unique challenges there, just having them do a few thousand won't necessarily get an adult learner to be good at a shot.
There is more than one way to impact a ball efficiently, and also more than one way to generate energy... but what is common is that to make an acceptably good impact, a player needs to be able to generate kinetic energy and deliver it to the ball. Being loose and using legs and hips are accepted as the most major way to generate the most kinetic energy.
EDIT: The point being that it isn't the wrist generating the kinetic energy or channeling/amplifying it. The wrist joint is only a point of leverage to use or not use.
Players like Next Level, who have compromised joints and hip, cannot get down enough, often enough to generate big kinetic energy that way, but one can still generate a big kinetic energy (and deliver it) with a lesser amount of leg and hip to start it all... this situation just demands better amplification of it or another way to create and borrow the kinetic energy.
One not-so-thought-of way is to take a small step, plant, and borrow that energy (if one can stay loose and time the impulses afterwards)... channeling it and amplifying it along the way. We do this on a FH flip where we step into the ball over the table.
Another way is to do a minor push of leg and short hip to start it all, that takes less bend and less stress to joints, but is more difficult to do it right and on time being more upright, especially if you are a tall person like Nexy Level.
On BH wing, all I need to do is move my upper and lower arm forward a few inches, then slow down/stop the upper arm, allow the lower arm to move and apply my impulse to accelerate the lower arm, snap the wrist through a little or lot, and firm up grip for extra power if I choose.
The essence of generating extreme fast bat speed is to set an object in motion, then impulse it after it starts moving. (much easier to accelerate a mass that is moving) If one is leveraged and well timed with the individual short explosions needed to amplify the initial power, one can have a huge bat speed before impact. One cannot achieve this by being tight, or tightening too soon in the middle. Tightened muscles cannot accelerate anything too much, it is an accepted fact. (Yet I see so many players try to get more power by tightening)
I see so many adults ruin the nice kinetic energy they created by trying to over-kill with upper body driving like a Jeep 4x4 over cross-country tight and all locked up... The example Brett shows in his vid with the bear illustrates the importance of staying loose to allow the kinetic energy to flow across the joints and points of leverage.
Adult learners learn so differently from kids, unique challenges there, just having them do a few thousand won't necessarily get an adult learner to be good at a shot.
There is more than one way to impact a ball efficiently, and also more than one way to generate energy... but what is common is that to make an acceptably good impact, a player needs to be able to generate kinetic energy and deliver it to the ball. Being loose and using legs and hips are accepted as the most major way to generate the most kinetic energy.
EDIT: The point being that it isn't the wrist generating the kinetic energy or channeling/amplifying it. The wrist joint is only a point of leverage to use or not use.
Players like Next Level, who have compromised joints and hip, cannot get down enough, often enough to generate big kinetic energy that way, but one can still generate a big kinetic energy (and deliver it) with a lesser amount of leg and hip to start it all... this situation just demands better amplification of it or another way to create and borrow the kinetic energy.
One not-so-thought-of way is to take a small step, plant, and borrow that energy (if one can stay loose and time the impulses afterwards)... channeling it and amplifying it along the way. We do this on a FH flip where we step into the ball over the table.
Another way is to do a minor push of leg and short hip to start it all, that takes less bend and less stress to joints, but is more difficult to do it right and on time being more upright, especially if you are a tall person like Nexy Level.
On BH wing, all I need to do is move my upper and lower arm forward a few inches, then slow down/stop the upper arm, allow the lower arm to move and apply my impulse to accelerate the lower arm, snap the wrist through a little or lot, and firm up grip for extra power if I choose.
The essence of generating extreme fast bat speed is to set an object in motion, then impulse it after it starts moving. (much easier to accelerate a mass that is moving) If one is leveraged and well timed with the individual short explosions needed to amplify the initial power, one can have a huge bat speed before impact. One cannot achieve this by being tight, or tightening too soon in the middle. Tightened muscles cannot accelerate anything too much, it is an accepted fact. (Yet I see so many players try to get more power by tightening)
I see so many adults ruin the nice kinetic energy they created by trying to over-kill with upper body driving like a Jeep 4x4 over cross-country tight and all locked up... The example Brett shows in his vid with the bear illustrates the importance of staying loose to allow the kinetic energy to flow across the joints and points of leverage.
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