C77fastpitch wrote:Ted Williams wrote he could smell the ball burn when he hit it.
No, he didn't. Get your story straight. You are close but no cigar. Google is your friend. I'd explain your mistake but I tire of your misguided persistence.
C77fastpitch wrote: Impossible even for Ted, he also never could get over Joan Joyce striking him out. .
No, It didn't bother him at all. See how that works? I can make an unsupported statement as well. Difference is mine sounds believable and yours doesn't.
C77fastpitch wrote:Ted was truly a great hitter and teacher, but was contentious at best when he was a player. .
Whatever.
C77fastpitch wrote:Hitting coaches hate to hear that anything is natural,.
Natural, to most kids, seems to be, as I said before, to use their arms to hit the ball in a casting motion some describe as bat drag. I've been watching 18U Houston area and national level ball closely for 20 years. For years I saw less than 10% that I would describe as high level swings. Another 30% that weren't just awful. Now that has improved in the last ten years but great swings are still the exception rather than the rule. So how you figure swinging a bat is natural?
C77fastpitch wrote: and that leaving kids alone at any age is awful..
Letting young kids use a swing that counts at .23 seconds or worse because they are crushing weak to average pitching is awful unless that's the highest level of softball the kid plans to play.
C77fastpitch wrote: After all without their help the world would just not turn. It's a miracle that kids learned how to play before professional hitting coaches came along..
Stipulated before...most hitting coaches teach something that is obviously not what elite hitters do if you check video of elite hitters so don't think I'm defending the majority of hitting instructors. If we can agree the state of instruction is bad enough that the overall average competence would be improved if all hitting instruction ceased, then I might be with you.
C77fastpitch wrote:Professionals coaches are not the only ones that can help teach hitting, parents and and unpaid coaches help also,.
No kidding.
C77fastpitch wrote: it takes a village..
No, it takes individual hard work and study. Regardless of the competence of instruction or understanding of the kid about what he/she is doing, hard work will usually win out. At least until it meets hard work combined with biomechanical efficiency.
C77fastpitch wrote: This idea that if kids are taught wrong they can never be fixed, is a bit pretentious too..
See, you keep doing this. You keep attributing positions that NO ONE on here has taken. Just stop. It's getting tedious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man C77fastpitch wrote:Kids are physically and mentally flexible, and good professional coaches can easily make those changes.
I'm with you except for the easily part. Sometimes it's easy and quick. Sometimes it's not. Why would I want my kid to swing poorly until some later time?