Been super impressed with all the @Aj Arroyo content on YouTube, particularly the excellent suggestions on "where to start" with Youth players. Got the mini snap pro LH bat because Elliott (turns 10 in a week) is a pure lefty. But then, once I had the bat and tried swinging LH myself, I decided I needed to feel the feels myself and so I got a RH bat so I could feel how the HLP doesn't match my natural swing. VERY glad I did. Right obliques/RIBS area is SORE after a couple of sessions of doing things differently than I've always done them. Anyway, it was crystal clear to me that I topped out as an EXTREMELY bad hitter in baseball because I was just TOO SLOW to launch... and I wanted to avoid that for Elliott. So we got started on the staying back part for Elliott, but when I saw your Ad for the Mini on YouTube, I thought he could use it. And a couple of sessions later, after it arrived, he had his best two hits of the season across 3 or so games... and I could see when I slowed it down how much he'd started to incorporate the right ideas... not least because he hit it quite solidly oppo on that swing. But part of it for me, too, is just that I'm a good hitter in slow pitch softball more or less because I can place the ball where I want to by throwing my hands where I wanted to go, but I just couldn't hit the ball anywhere near as far as my buddy who was a hair taller than me, but not stronger... ...so I want to use my legs more effectively in the swing as well... so I'm interested in the HLP, because it's just obviously a better way to use the legs than whatever I did before. As far as home setup, we've got a bunch of local fields, a cage, a driveway and a net... Video 1 below was me just farting around with him this morning asking him to just PASTE a few. Video 2 was his best recent in-game contact. ...but I DID have a question. And that is... when *I* swing, any swing longer than a snap stop feels EXTREMELY awkward unless I turn loose with my top hand and finish the swing one handed (both hands come around, but I'm only holding the bat with my bottom hand). Is that basically normal, or is it more a sign of something to work on?

Sorry if the video is bad, but I’m noticing that I’m usually on time(from other videos), but my barrel is under the ball. So I don’t really know if it’s something with my lower half or I’m just dropping my hands. My coaches told me to level the bat because my hands are at the ball height(around) and if I did level it off I would be getting hits, but going off HLP it doesn’t really work like that. Any help/feedback is very much appreciated!

A month ago, there's NO CHANCE that Elliott catches up with this guy. Was WAY LATE on first two offerings, but smooth liner oppo here.

Coach @Aj Arroyo here’s game footage from last weekend. 15u pitcher throwing probably low-mid 70’s. My thoughts: 1) launching too early 2) stance a bit too wide 3) moving too fast and too forward. Including two videos. One is a comparison against Shohei. And the other is the actual at-bat footage.

Thoughts???