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Alright, the second part of the palm up or the top-hand bottom-hand drill is now the top-hand. We have showed you the bottom hand now we are going to show you how the top-hand is supposed to work. And again you just get your hitter in the same position than they normally would, top-hand on the bat. Again you can be chocked up whatever the hitter is comfortable with, however you want to do with the focus on the proper key points. And what drill is you have your hitter kind of put their bottom hand here kind of other side, somewhere it's kind of out of the way. You want to get them in their stance just like they normally would, again, and here is the difference you want to concentrate here on where we get our hands as they go back and we want to concentrate on this elbow as it comes down in it. So we have our hitter get in a stance with just the top hand on the bat.
Alright, at this point they are going to load the hands up just like they normally would. You could see again, you are pretty square to the pitcher where the bowler normally be coming from. The hands in a good powerful hitting position where you would normally load your hands up if you are hitting with both. The elbow is relaxing at the side. Now from here we concentrate again staying inside the baseball use their top hand to drive down and in through here. But the difference is here, is you want to see the elbow position, the position of the elbow with good hitters, they get it down in here what's called the slot, and that elbow kind of acts as a catapult here, notice the hands are still, the palm is up, but the barrel is also up.
So as we stay inside the baseball and come towards point of contact now that elbow comes through, you get a little bit of extension in the arm and you are in that palm up position with the barrel leveled and in line with the hands. It's not looping down here, it's not too far back, it's not already rolled over what we talked about before, it's nice palm up position and a good strong position. So we are going to take it back and slowly stride and load the hands -- go ahead -- alright, hands inside the baseball with the elbow in the slot, right there palm up, at point of contact and then as you just swing through you kind of push through, and notice one of the key points there too is, you didn't roll his top hand over until it was somewhere out here. So many hitters again -- bring your bat back to point of contact have a tendency to get that roll over right here or roll over right after point of contact, it creates a bat going up like this which is going to help you get on top of the baseball too much.
If you want to get that nice extension through and then you roll over out of your swing. So you want to concentrate on the elbow down in the slot obviously hands back and up, palm up at point of contact with the barrel level and nice extension and follow-through without rolling over too soon. We will demonstrate that for you here. Alright, go ahead, alright.
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