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Intermediate

Rollover (rouler les poignets) (rolling over)

Also known as: rollover, rollover précoce de la main du haut, roulant faible

Definition

Le rollover est un défaut de swing où la main du haut tourne sur la main du bas trop tôt, fermant le barrel à travers le contact et produisant des roulants faibles vers le côté tiré.

Dans un swing sain, le barrel reste carré (paume vers le haut / paume vers le bas) à travers la zone de contact et les mains roulent après que la balle est partie. Quand la main du haut roule tôt, elle entraîne le barrel vers le bas et autour de l’extérieur de la balle, imprimant du lift et créant des roulants côté tiré. Le rollover est souvent déclenché par un retard sur le lancer (compensé en forçant le swing), par une mauvaise trajectoire des mains ou par un calage de hanche qui force les bras à terminer le swing. Il est courant sur les balles rapides intérieures quand le frappeur est pris à contre-pied.

Beginner tip

Practice "palm up" contact by placing your bottom palm upward through the contact zone during slow-toss drills. This means if your palm flips downward before the ball leaves, you have identified the early rollover moment.

Advanced note

Review your rollover rate data by pitch location. This means rollover on inner pitches is usually a timing cause that requires a contact-point adjustment. Rollover on outer or middle pitches is usually a path cause that requires a hand-path fix, and treating them the same way will improve one. At the same time, ignoring the other.

Example

Elle a frappé six roulants d’affilée vers l’arrêt-court — la vidéo a montré sa main du haut rouler avant le contact sur chaque lancer, un défaut combiné de timing et de trajectoire.

Why it matters

SwingVantage distingue le rollover causé par le timing de celui causé par la trajectoire, pour que la correction cible la bonne variable — travaillez la trajectoire sur les rollovers de timing, travaillez le timing sur les rollovers de trajectoire.

How it shows up on video

On video, rollover is identified by the orientation of the back hand at the moment of contact. This means if the palm is facing down or sideways rather than up-and-toward-the-pitcher at contact, the top hand has already rolled. Common visual signatures include the bat head arriving at the contact point already past parallel with the ground (barrel drooping due to rollover), grounders that reliably shoot off the bat end toward the pull-side infield gap. The back elbow dropping below the back hip at contact rather than staying above it through the swing.

Common mistakes

  • Allowing the top hand to dominate the swing from the very beginning. This means a top-hand-led swing inherently rolls over. This is because the top hand's natural motion is a pronation that drives the barrel downward
  • Responding to being jammed by muscling the swing over with the top hand. This produces the rollover pattern that causes a grounder rather than the checked swing or foul ball that would be a better outcome
  • Using a bat that is too heavy or too long. This causes the hitter to begin rolling the wrists earlier in the swing to control the bat's momentum before contact
  • Neglecting hip rotation as the rollover fix. This means many rollovers are caused by hips stalling and the arms compensating with a muscled finish that triggers the premature top-hand roll

In SwingVantage Motion Lab

SwingVantage measures wrist and hand orientation at the contact frame and identifies the timing relationship between hip rotation stall and top-hand rotation onset. This means a stalled hip that correlates with early rollover onset indicates a sequencing cause. A rollover that occurs independent of hip timing indicates a path or arm-strength cause. This distinction drives the corrective drill advice.

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