Not one of my favorite "competitors" but definately one of my favorite swingers.



JDDrew

This player uses his center pretty darn good. Knows how to turn the wrench handle. Knows how to carry his mass forward by turning. Can see this really well in the link. No bottom hand under the top hand garbage. Just turning into the ball. You can tell he eliminated a lot of "noise" since his FSU days.

Maybe the worst baserunner in all of baseball. For someone who has hit all his life, been on base all his life, you'd think he would have a clue on the bases.

Closed off front side, lead arm starts long and stays long. Hits ball out front, launch off tip of shoulder , powerful, good, rare

JD Drew has a totally different swing than FSU and Lowndes County HS days. Saw him quite frequently as HS player when with Orioles.

You have nailed it down again linear about the center and coming forward by turning bringing mass forward by turning. Like that a lot!!!!

Excellent examples of the "perfect swing".

Shep

For those breaking this swing down........Look at the front view on the link below the gif> too many clips begin at the true swing and miss the preswing elements that cause the swing to be great.

Things are moving back and in AS he strides. No good swing violates this absolute. You are more likely to see and judge it from the mound vs 3B views...see frontal clip

Make sure you don't miss his hip tuck/counter rotation and his shoulder load. He still exhibits the proper " baseball backswing". Failure to see that can lead to erroneous conclusions about how he did it

Stand a a pitchers mound and you will see that LL, JV , and HS kids omit this vital first stage of a great swing. You must coil the hips. This is not a static rotary move. It is a counter -coil/uncoil lower body.

His bat path stays into the plane of the shoulder turn so perfectly that it appears like a pure turn forward and you can miss the neg move that preceeds it.

From the front, you will see his shoulder close down too. From the side you see his hands go back from shoulder move mostly

Linear..how did you get that video on there?

TP

Make sure you clik that other JD clip when he was a Brave that Linear has posted. Now thats the perfect swing!!!!

Shep

Man TP

They're gone!!!!! LOL

That was some good stuff!!!!

Hope everybody got to see em before video-patrol!!!! LOL

Shep

great swing. how do you guys post these guys swinging in here?

quote:

Originally posted by slobintoronto:
great swing. how do you guys post these guys swinging in here?

In a nutshell:

1. Create an animated GIF file in something like Jasc's Animation Shop.
2. Upload the file to some web space (like the 10mb per email account that Cox gives customers). I simply use Windows Explorer and drag-n-drop the file onto my members.cox.net folder under My Network Places.
3. Open Internet Explorer and type into the Address field the full URL to where your file is stored (i.e. http://members.cox.net/SandmanBaseball/MyFile.gif)
4. When the clip displays in your browser, you've at least tested that you typed the link right, as well as given yourself a valid URL (i.e. spaces are replaced by ASCII space characters, 20, surrounded by % delimiters).
5. Copy the URL from the Address field.
6. When typing a message in one of these forums, click on the "Display image" icon at the top (2nd from right).
7. Paste the URL into the "Image URL" field.

Ta da!

thank u

YW.

Sand

Its your favorite Hillbilly buddy

Will this work with bellsouth DSL?

Printed page three here and also thank you.

Shep

Shep

Right click on the link. Choose properties. Write down the address. Type it into your browsers address bar.

Link should work.

Appreciate it BB Linear and Sandman

Showing is better than typing, I agree.

Let me see what I can do now. Think I'll go look for that other Drew clip as Brave or Albert Puljos somewhere

Shep

quote:

Originally posted by Linear:
Shep

Right click on the link. Choose properties. Write down the address. Type it into your browsers address bar.

Link should work.

You don't even have to write it down. You can triple-click on the address, then copy it (ctrl-c or right-click/copy), then paste it into your browser's Address field.

quote:

Originally posted by Shepster:
Sand

Its your favorite Hillbilly buddy

I made that Beverly Hillbillies baseball pic my desktop background!

quote:

Originally posted by bbscout:
Sandman and FlippJ were the guys that helped me to learn how to save clips, load clips and post clips. They made my life easier, because I can now show what I mean instead of confusing people with a long speech that they might not understand.

Thanks guys.

YW bb. Just remember my son in about 7 years!

bbscout,

Glad I could help.

Jason

P.S. I've got a SWEET Will Clark clip. When I get a chance I'll send it to you.