Pendulum style of batting

The pendulum style of batting (ふりこだほう) is one of the styles of batting of the batter in the baseball.

Commentary

Summary

I put up a foot on the pitcher side highly or move it like a shuffle and I step and swing while sliding a body on the pitcher side. I fix the position of the head as much as possible to be easy to ascertain a ball in the normal style of batting, and it is idealized that I do not move eyes, but the eyes of the batter greatly move the body in the pendulum style of batting in a turn at bat to slide to the pitcher side. A pivot leg is a style of batting to move to a foot on the pitcher side at a moment to strike while using the reaction that a foot is hatched.

It is Ichiro and Kenichiro Kawamura to have developed a pendulum style of batting, and it really uses it, and it is Ichiro first to have played an active part. There was not the name at first, but the name called "a pendulum style of batting" was touched because the style of batting attracted attention because Ichiro played an active part, and forefoot when I beat made a characteristic move like a pendulum. On the other hand, I state that Ichiro at the time does not like the name called the pendulum style of batting [¹].

Characteristic, evaluation

I float a foot early from the ground, and point out reaction, and, as for the pendulum style of batting to need it to arrest a ball while oneself moves, a for way of the lenience and severity is reverse to the normal style of batting. There is many, "I do the correspondence such as cuts in disfavor with a timing being broken in the normal style of batting, and a body opening if I wait for a fast ball basically, and a breaking ball comes", but it is required that I do not start a bat early while opening the body at the verge before a lot of "doing the correspondence such as cuts with the property of the pendulum style of batting if I wait for a breaking ball basically, and a fast ball comes" reaching the impact. In other words, health is an opened state and leaves a grip behind till the last not to turn a shoulder on the catcher side at an early stage and copes after seeing a ball to the limit. It is a style of batting that was begun to knit "to wave a bat to it after witnessing a breaking ball having changed" and is greatly far apart from the ideal of the classic blow theory.

Hiromitsu Ochiai was an interview of the spring of 1999 and described it as it when I went that the pendulum style of batting of Ichiro moved from oneself for a blow theory to hit it with conventional one's form and hit it. I explain that it is "a pitching style of batting" that it is the style of batting centering on technically different forefoot, and a body slides rather than a pendulum style of batting not a method that Yutaka Murakami of the baseball technology theory collects the weight in the conventional hind leg and uses the turn of the waist, and the weight suffers from on forefoot. Ichiro mentions possibility, "it may be said that the one that oneself moved is easy to look at a ball" in an interview.

The TV program which was broadcasted in 1995 "a monopoly check a pendulum style of batting of Ichiro at the time with genius Ichiro coherence special" in detail, and analyze it that the Kagemoto Yuasa professor of the Chukyo University physical education department brings about power because the pendulum style of batting lengthens the distance to move of the bat. After comparing it with a blow of Kazuhiro Kiyohara (Shinto priest style of batting) with a computer in the Class same order, as for Kiyohara, it is said that 20cm, a center of gravity that are 4 times of Kiyohara in the pendulum style of batting of Ichiro moved forward whereas a center of gravity moves 5cm to an impact forward after I begin to wave a bat.

In the property, the strength of a wrist and the ankle is necessary, and the pendulum style of batting is demanded from the swing speed. I explain that Ichiro copes with the speed of the swing speed by the program mentioned above about the point that is hard to perform a meet by having a long movement. That the swing speed of Ichiro is faster than an average of 0.22 seconds of the fourth batter and 0.25 seconds of the professional average for approximately 0.17 seconds [^{explanatory note 1}]. The normal batter keeps watch on the mountain to some extent, but there are few parts to put a mountain on in the case of Ichiro, and it is said that I arrest the core of the ball and can hit it. Therefore I can make use of a pendulum style of batting and explain that I may give off a lot of hits.

As for the pendulum style of batting, Tomoya Tsuboi, Kazuya Fukuura, Munenori Kawasaki employed Ichiro in the first on the list. There is the weak point "that I wave it to a fast ball, and "it is weak for an interior angle attack" is easy to be late" for because of a style of batting that movement greatly moves in front of a center of gravity while there is an advantage, "it is easy to put timings together" "is easy to shoot the batted ball which even a powerless batter is strong" in. Ichiro after that purpose or major transfer stops a pendulum style of batting to cope with the fast pitch of the foreign pitcher.

The troop leaders clashed with Ichiro of the farm team era over the opinion for the style of batting as above because it was a unique, revolutionary style of batting [^{explanatory note 2}], and a person concerned with much baseball denied it by the birth. There is the person detesting the existence of this style of batting now saying, "unorthodox" "is unrealistic" in a baseball leader.

Tomoya Tsuboi who used the pendulum style of batting after retirement "the fault of the pendulum style of batting" for という question when "think because give a foot at the time when it was hard for a step to be aimed at, and have a long it that the movement after all to avoid a ball is late, and cutting ball hits instep, and have broken it, and I will attack the pitcher in this way, do the thing that is open so that there were a lot of pitchers who change the rhythm of the quick などで throw even if there is only cutting ball of the inside corner, and a runner is not in the weak point again, and the partner breaks it somehow. But I talk about the fault of the pendulum style of batting and the measures saying it assumed it.^[2]

Process until birth

It was suggested in 1993 by Orix farm team hitting coach, Kenichiro Kawamura at the time, and Ichiro used this style of batting as a professional baseball player for the first time.^[3]

Is not seen in the blow of the normal player to wash down a body for a blow of Ichiro in a turn at bat, and to swing "(while a center of gravity moves before) bat while moving a pivot leg"; is original; was characteristic [^{explanatory note 3}]. This tendency "that the upper part of the body moved before (in the pitcher direction) when I beat" was seen from boyhood, and father told "do not play with a form" to supervision as a joining a club condition when I entered the baseball club in a junior high school. Ichiro enters the high school afterwards without correcting a style of batting. By a type that Takeshi Nakamura of the Director at Aichi Institute of Technology name electric high school baseball club made use of the personality of the player and brought up, I showed understanding to the unique shooting and did not play with a form.

Ichiro at the time acted as a pitcher, but talent scout, Katsutoshi Miwata of the Orix BlueWave baseball team loved Ichiro as "a batter" and appreciated good balance of the base running playing a game. I reported it to the director of formation at Orix as the player whom I wanted by all means, but the baseball team did not make much of Ichiro, and third place nomination became the fourth place nomination by circumstances. When Suzuki would not stay to the fourth round, Minowada was beginning to give up it, but succeeded in acquisition in spite of being fourth place nomination safely [⁴]; (^{[explanatory note 4]} which it became the neck that Ichiro was a player of the small-sized lightweight model, and it was only Nippon Meat Packers baseball team that aimed at Ichiro elsewhere, and Nippon Meat Packers was not able to step on for high rank nomination, too).

In February, 1992, Ichiro (as for the registration name "Suzuki") who was a rookie showed off the technique that even what kind of ball arrested in right in the center by a batting practice by Orix farm team spring camping carried out in Okinawa and nailed the eyes of farm team supervision, the coaching staff [^{explanatory note 5}]. When a season begins, I mass-produce hits by original shooting. I hit eight games barrage since the start and ran alone in the leading hitters while just maintaining a high batting average. I finally added wide margins more than four minutes to the second place in batting average .366, and it was to the leading hitter [^{explanatory note 6}] of the Western League and showed activity in a farm team, and an evaluation was high as a middle hitter in the team. I was promoted to the same year in the middle of a season, and participation opportunities came to increase in the troop.

Even the opening game and the second game of 1993 of the next year served as starting member participation and they were to the reserve of the troop afterwards, but came to receive form remedial teaching by the policy "that you must do in a blow form to be used in a troop" thoroughly from troop leaders formation. One hit (two games starting member and pinch hitter) and a result were not given at all in 11 at bats of April and broke the model of the form from fret that Ichiro was going to leave results for, and I was dropped in the end of April to the farm team. Because a form of Ichiro who came back to the farm team too rattled, Kawamura of the farm team hitting coach is surprised, and it is said that talent scout, Minowada that found Ichiro received a strong shock.

There were Director at Shozo Doi troop, plural coaches in Orix at the time. The Ichiro's shooting was denied from all around without understanding being got including Kazuhiro Yamauchi of the troop head and the hitting coach by Toru Ogawa, Yonemura law of nature, Tadayoshi Okuma troop hitting coach or Tetsuya Yoneta pitcher coach. However, Kawamura admitted that I let you just beat saying "this is a good point of Ichiro not a bad point" and I returned a form and started the exploring of the style of batting [⁵].

Ichiro went back and forth in a troop and the farm team during style of batting exploring with Kawamura and I was selected as the starting member of the troop and hit right を down with the game of June 12 , 1993 to the first turn at bat and gave off a professional's first home run to the right wing in the fourth turn at bat. However, this home run was a jam-packed hit and because a baseball stadium (Nagaoka-shi endlessness fields and mountains Stadium) was small, it was last-minute and turned it down with [⁶] that entered and "I hit the blow aim" without evaluating the leaders formation probably because it might be said saying "I overswinged, and such a blow that I swung around does not expect a bat in spite of a middle hitter" "meaningless full swing". While there was few it, I continued starting member participation, but the batting average was sluggish, and the leaders criticized a form of Ichiro severely by [^{explanatory note 7}] afterwards. The instruction method did not fit Ichiro again though I received strong interference from a troop hitting coach. [^{explanatory note 8}] which he forced to remodel it into a style of batting and the form of the downswing that I left the weight for without the hitting coach moving the upper part of the body for re-three, Ichiro went through a style of batting of oneself [^{explanatory note 9}].

I continued refusing it for the instruction of the troop hitting coach and refused it in an order of the form remodeling to become the third on July 4 [⁷]. The hitting coach made a proposal for Manager Doi about styles of batting of Ichiro, and Ichiro became the second farm team omission on July 5. After that I refused it flatly, "I wanted to harden foam" when I was called by the troop and devoted myself to the improvement of the style of batting with Kawamura in a farm team.

When Kawamura supported a style of batting of Ichiro, and it was criticized about the point where a head fell down to by other coaches of Orix, a head stood last and protected it if technically superior [^{explanatory note 10}].

Ichiro continued leaving a good grade in the Western League of the farm team while hardening foundations and, from anti-Hiroshima round on April 25, 1993 to anti-Hanshin round on August 7, I caught an interruption period by the second troop promotion and achieved the Western League record called 30 games barrage" [^{explanatory note 11}]. While I practice it by instructions, "I take the timing using a lower part of the body" of Kawamura from the summertime, I come to slightly greatly give nature and a foot and almost build up the base of the model of the new style of batting. I showed improvement in power in particular and it was Western League for 1,992 years and was batting average .366.3 home run, slugging average .462 (238 at bats), but left batting average .371.8 home run, slugging average .640 (186 at bats) in 1993. I go over to United States of America Hawaii without waiting for the end in a season in autumn, and it is participated in the war for winter Hawaii winter by the league. I recorded an average called .311 (164 at bats of 51 hits) to become the batting average second place, and I was picked in (13 people in total participate from Orix, Nippon Meat Packers Daiei) of a Japanese player by just the one top nine. I repeated improvement with Kawamura, and the style of batting that a foot was put up naturally changed to a unijambist style of batting to greatly give a foot to intentionally first, and the form of the new style of batting called "a pendulum style of batting" was completed later afterwards in 1994.

It was off, and when a troop hitting coach took place of Hiromasa Arai, Kawamura recommended Ichiro to Akira Ogi, and, in Arai, Director at troop showed understanding in the style of batting of Ichiro in 1993. Ogi evaluated Ichiro by camping in spring in 1994, too and was adopted as a troop regular. イチローは1994年シーズンでもプロ野球史上初となる200本安打を放つなど活躍を果たし、特徴的であった振り子打法も注目されるようになった。やがてイチロー以外にも同打法を実践するものが増えていった。そのため、現在では振り子打法は打法のひとつとして定着している。ただし、前に軸を移動させていくという特殊な打法であることに変わりはないため、ほかの打法に比べて使用者は少ない。

振り子打法を使った主な選手

脚注

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注釈

^ 4番打者との差である0.05秒の差は、マウンドから捕手までの投球では約2m分の距離に換算でき、イチローはその分だけボールを長く見られる余裕がある。
^ 類似のケースに野茂英雄の「トルネード投法」がある。
^ 後に野村克也は、「軸をブラして打てるのはイチローか若松くらい」と述べている。
^ 当時日ハムの球団常務だった大沢啓二は、体の細さの懸念などから上位指名できなかったとしている（大沢啓二『球道無頼』）。
^ 『みんな、野球が好きだった』根来広光、小田豊二（集英社）。当時のオリックス二軍監督・根来は、この頃の鈴木一朗について長時間のトレーニングを厭わない姿勢を評価している。
^ 高卒新人のウエスタンリーグ首位打者は32年ぶりであった。
^ 1993年のイチローは打法を試行錯誤している最中で、実際に一軍では低打率から数字をあげることができず、ほとんど結果が出ていなかった。6月13日終了時点での一軍成績は打率.115・1本塁打である。
^ 「上体を動かすと、後ろ足（捕手よりの足）に体重が残らない。体重が残らないとボールを強く叩けない」というのは、当時の日本プロ野球界における基本的な打撃理論のひとつだった（『イチローは「天才」ではない』小川勝著、角川書店、2002年6月）。
^ 一軍打撃コーチはイチローがファームにいた頃にもイチローの父親へ打撃改造を相談して断られている（鈴木宣之著『イチローとわが家ほんとうの話』）。
^ 河村はイチローの打ち方の8割を長所、2割は短所であるとして、短所を直すことに着目して長所を失わせるのではなく、長所を伸ばすことだけを方針とした。
^ この期間は打率.420（119打数50安打）という成績だった。

出典

^ 1995年テレビ朝日系列放送『ザ・スーパーサンデー』内の「独占！天才イチロー密着スペシャル」より。
^ イチローの振り子打法の元祖論争に決着！
^ イチロー振り子打法生みの親　「上から叩け、は間違った指導」
^ 『名スカウトはなぜ死んだか』六車護著（講談社）
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^ "【6月12日】1993年（平5）見出しにもならなかった「1番・センター、鈴木」の初本塁打". スポニチ. 2009年2月27日閲覧。
^ GyaO!のイチローインタビュー動画「イチローの第1歩」（2010年3月）
^ "＜楽天＞第２クール終了・久米島キャンプ". 河北新報オンラインニュース. 2015年3月24日閲覧。
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^ "福浦和也。（前編）一日一回野球の話をしようよ". nikkansports.com. 2015年3月29日閲覧。

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