DanGer1285
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Swing right, throw right, shoot pool right, shoot hockey right, shoot basketball right, jerk it right, kick balls with my right foot.
Guess I'm purely right sided.
Guess I'm purely right sided.
hope jaj23 would agree with this response but to maximize power in your swing you take your hands in a straight path to the ball bringing your bottom hand in towards your body and driving your top hand through the ball. You should never actually rotate your wrist until after you have made contact with the ball so whether or not your fingers are overlapped or not should not matter. Im assuming by rotational you mean during your load you turn your upper body in and as you begin your swing you extend your hands and rotate your upper body but thats not mechanically right. The further your hands are away from your body, the less power your have. You can still hit a ball a long way doing that if you have a lot of power because after all your hitting composite bats but usually if you hit that way your either a dead pull hitter or don't hit the ball to the opposite side nearly as hard as you pull it. keeping your hands inside the ball and exploding with the top hand is the only way to hit the ball to all parts of the field with authority.
This is my theory on why so many pro MLB players hit left handed. And also why lefties tend to have smoother swings.This has always puzzled me...Im a left handed batter from the pitchers POV but i stand in the box on the right side when i approach it. I throw right handed but bat left..my right hand is on bottom which makes it my dominate hand the "powerhouse". Why are there so little amount of left handed batters? Shouldn't everyone who's is right hand dominate bat left handed?
Yep. In addition, the arms should be bent (top arm > bottom arm) at contact and should extend through the ball.
This is my theory on why so many pro MLB players hit left handed. And also why lefties tend to have smoother swings.
This has always puzzled me...Im a left handed batter from the pitchers POV but i stand in the box on the right side when i approach it. I throw right handed but bat left..my right hand is on bottom which makes it my dominate hand the "powerhouse". Why are there so little amount of left handed batters? Shouldn't everyone who's is right hand dominate bat left handed?
because only 10% of people are wrong handed
And yet 38% of MLB hitters are left handed. I'm saying it gives a fundamental advantage in swing quality, and that advantage is seen in the significantly higher percentage of pro lefties (most of whom throw right handed).My thought on this theory is since there are only around 4 or 5% people in the world who are left handed you don't see nearly as many of them with bad swings because there are not nearly as many of them playing as righties. There are so many right handed people, the probability of them sucking is higher. Right handed players can have just as good of a swing as a lefty. Lefties can have terrible swings as well. Just like saying more people in 2011 were murdered in the U.S. than in 1911. well there are millions more people here now and out of those millions there are few more stupid people in the world that would kill someone for whatever reason.
I read somewhere that most people's dominant eye is their left eye which makes it easier to bat "right handed." Since most people do things with their right hand, they just assume that the way those people bat would be called "right handed" also. Interesting theories...
Extend your arms in front of you with your palms facing away.
Bring your hands together, forming a small hole by crossing the thumbs and fore fingers.
Choose a small object about 15-20 feet away from you. With both eyes open, focus on the object as you look through the small hole.
Close one eye and then the other. When you close one eye, the object will be stationary. When you close the other eye, the object should disappear from the hole or jump to one side.
If the object does not move when you cover one eye, then that eye is dominant. The eye that sees the object and does not move is the dominant eye.
Playing devils advocate but why is the overlap grip preferred by alot of ppl. Even if it's just a finger or two
Extend your arms in front of you with your palms facing away.
Bring your hands together, forming a small hole by crossing the thumbs and fore fingers.
Choose a small object about 15-20 feet away from you. With both eyes open, focus on the object as you look through the small hole.
Close one eye and then the other. When you close one eye, the object will be stationary. When you close the other eye, the object should disappear from the hole or jump to one side.
If the object does not move when you cover one eye, then that eye is dominant. The eye that sees the object and does not move is the dominant eye.
Is this a peeing contest? If so, I want in.I write left ,bat left ,throw right golf right( was a poor kid and we only had right handed) shoot pool left and I wipe my ass w my left.
And yet 38% of MLB hitters are left handed. I'm saying it gives a fundamental advantage in swing quality, and that advantage is seen in the significantly higher percentage of pro lefties (most of whom throw right handed).