So he just added Fungo to his mini half and he wants some feedback before he nails down this routine. Having a terrible time leaking in-game and just starting to get a decent snap behind him.

After last post, I'd concluded that I just wasn't swinging the right way because the impact pattern was mostly from "in line with, or to the RIGHT of" the nub in my short bat as a RH hitter. And I concluded that ... it was roughly consistent with my slicing with a mini half bat as opposed to hitting it flush. So at that point I got some duct tape and threw it on the barrel of the bat and did some tee work and got back to trying to isolate hand pivot, and after a few sessions where I felt like I made some progress, I decided to return to the cage and take some hacks off the machine. This time for more direct and immediate feedback... I first sprayed the bat with some Dr Scholl's foot powder - the zinc oxide in there is basically white spray paint that rubs off pretty easily. And it was VERY clear where the impact zone is... and today "everything" was "in line with, or to the LEFT of the nub." So that's progress, at least? I felt like I needed to move the impact zone roughly 90 degrees from where it was. And though I certainly haven't accomplished THAT yet, it's clear that the impact pattern has moved LEFT of where it was, so I am more confident that I am NOT using my arms to push as much. My swing cue for this session was... start resting on the shoulder and try to just snap out from there in a check-swing snap-stop sort of motion... as a means of guarding against "using my old swing". Anyway, progress of a sort. Shortens the feedback time for me as I am trying to verify whether "that felt right because I just used my old swing" or "that felt like I used the new swing, like I meant to" based on whether I hit the correct part of the bat!

Thoughts???

@Aj Arroyo Have now taken a couple hundred swings with the short bat - hitting some pretty solidly, mis-hitting a whole bunch including plenty of pop-ups... etc... with the result that I now have a pretty cool wear pattern on the short bat, with at least SOME contact exactly where I would have expected it to be. But I also have a WHOLE BUNCH of what I assume are impacts where I pushed the bat rather than snapping/pivoting correctly... as opposed to these being decent technical swings where I just mis-hit the ball. ...anyway, I am QUITE sure that by now you have a good handful of bats with obvious wear patterns from your more proficient/professional guys, and I was wondering if you could post a pic or two about what a good impact pattern looks like from someone who does this consistently well. (slash, this might be a cool "short") Thanks! In the pic, all of the wear you see is a RHB. I see that if I hold the RH mini half bat with the nub at 10:30 or so that the flat hitting surface is at 9:00 on the clock face. I assume that means that with the short/gamer models that if the nub on the handle is at 10:30/11:00 that the impact surface is still intended to be 9:00 or so on the clock face. Therefore with the nub at 10:30, all of the 12:00 impacts are the equivalent of me cutting the ball with the mini, not hitting it flush. Pushing/other bad hand action, then...

Been working with my son to introduce HLP. His hitting this year was up and down as he made adjustments. His 9u season just finished and wanted to share a hit from a recent game. Things are starting to click and he has some confidence heading into the off season. PS : Maybe I should add sliding to his training because that wasn't smooth