I was focusing primarily on driving all my weight into the hip to get this rotation people keep talking about. I wasn't focused on anything else. I was doing it to prove that just moving laterally doesn't cause rotation at all no matter how hard you force your weight laterally your hips will not rotate unless you do something to initiate that turn. Paul Mcbeth talks about that in the video I posted to open the discission with but people don't believe it. He is literally talking about that twitch- that turn that happens before you come into brace.

So you admit his hip is starting to turn?

The unawareness required to self-own yourself this hard is just baffling to me.

Stay with me a little longer because I am trying a different approach.

contradicting yourself?

No, trying to get someone to see what I'm seeing. Sometimes a different approach works. Stay with me.

Rotation is a by product of throwing. You’re not throwing anything in that drill. Why would you think your hips are supposed to rotate??

No one said moving your hips laterally causes hip rotation. You’re the one trying to convince everyone here that hip rotation is where power comes from.

For a supposed baseball coach, you have no grasp of drills and their purpose. You’re also incapable of properly coaching. No coach would ever give advice that hinders progress or could result in injury, as you have.

You guys won't give me a chance to explain. I was doing your drills as a way to show the folly of them.

I know there must be a lateral shift. But it must combine with another critical element- that of hip rotation initiation in order to do it properly. Combining the lateral side to side with hip rotation initiation allows the hips to turn powerfully.

There are only two explanations for this thread continuing.

1.) You are still wrong, fundamentally, about the kinetic chain. Rotation of the hips before the brace is not part of the chain, period.

2.) You are trying to make a point that is beyond pedantic, and has already been addressed numerous times anyways.

I just don't get it.

Serious question, I'm not trying to be a D*ck here but do you have an old injury on your left side? This looks scarily unbalanced and as though you're trying to protect a knee from further injury?

As Sidewinder notes you are tipping over the top, you're not doing this in any kind of athletic motion.

Try jumping side to side quickly with your knees hanging under your body, basically just use the lower legs to bounce, not upper legs, immediate return back and forth. Not waiting and trying to balance on the other leg just bouncing back and forth.

Now stagger your legs slightly so your left toes are in line with your right heel. keep bouncing, keep just using your lower legs. If you do it a lot and start to pay attention to the feel you should feel the rear hip coming in (rotating) as you bounce back off the front foot.

A side benefit of this it will force your body into better balance (in all your videos your upper body is swinging out of control) , it will also hopefully help you start to feel some other stuff. Maybe.