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Voluntary and involuntary trigger movements are really important. Walking top players need to initiate off the side that they prefer in the “preparation phase”. Rhythmical from the balls of the feet on the left hand side.
Conceptuals from the balls of the feet on the right hand side.
Now players like to have a rhythm to their movements and time these trigger movements, generally they would end them at point of release for conceptuals and just after for rhythmicals is what I’ve witnessed over the years rather than move and stop to try and move again (Something that Walking bottom athletes can do)
Watch Mitchell Marsh batting, what foot does he initiate from and notice against spin bowling how he triggers still and most probably doesn’t realise he does.
Watxh yourself and others va spin do they trigger without realising?
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This is Tiger Woods talking to another pro called Tom, Tiger often talks about his FEEL being important to him with his putting, but this video is particularly interesting as you shall see and hear they use a different hand/arm to get their feel for the putt.
In Vancouver, coach Matthew Brown made an amazing technical change for putting for left motor shoulder golfers and the feel was unreal for them, do you understand how you golf in terms of movement, grip, swing, feel?
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Hip Shoulder Separation is often very misunderstood, people get assessed for movement ranges when staying still, but through 'movement' we have different degrees of which we want to hip shoulder separate.
If you were to look at someone from a Birds eye view you would notice this more, we look at the angle between the line between the hips and the line between the shoulders.
Low Mobile Point athletes use less Hip shoulder separation and this does not mean they produce less force.
If you watch people in the follow through watch the line between the hips and shoulders and the hips spin out like a door opening with the shoulders.
For spinners I see a lot of them stop with the belt buckle facing the batter, the coach will say complete the action but not realise they need to learn to rotate the hips the entire way around to "complete" to your technical model.
High Mobile Point athletes separate more between the hips and shoulders but they will separate more as the bowling arm is behind the body OR in the follow through.
With say the pull shot, If I cue finish with the hands over the opposite shoulder my profile with a Right Motor Shoulder can finish and hold with the hands over the left shoulder (as a right handed batter), with left shoulder profiles they tend to rebound back. We did co-ordination tests in Vancouver with our softball players and showed them the differences then they showed us their batting videos and it correlated but do we as coaches notice these things?
Here are examples on the video of: Pat Cummins, Jofra Archer Dale Steyn and Shoaib Akhtar, what differences or similarities do you notice with the bowlers?

Batting coaching myths:
1. Take your hands back in the backlift. At high speeds this wastes time, you have pace on the ball so need to get the bat to the ball, watch his hands go up and to the off side instead.
2. Extend your arms when you pull. If you have the batspeed of Brendon mccullum then sure, if you consider an ice skater spinning they bring body parts closer to them to rotate quicker, using this in the pull shot va high speed makes sense, you can keep the arms bent and have a fraction more time to get to the ball
What else do you notice that you didn’t expect and then have a look at Ricky Ponting pulling the ball, why was he so good at the shot?

This is Alex Rodriguez talking about his batting swing at one point of his career, the interesting part of this is people assume you need a long preparation phase to create energy then a long follow through phase to transmit force into the ball and give you time to decelerate. We have spiral systems and Alex talks about shortening his follow through like Roger Federer who seems to be a left shoulder dominant tennis player and would not follow through too far beyond striking the ball, as a coach you are looking at the hips and shoulders, how much do they separate and bear in mind the hips might be continuously rotating when you compare them
Have you tried shortening the follow through and how does that feel to you?

The importance of mindset in the batting approach with Ricky ponting