Swing Attractors created a biomechanics software and process of computations, calculations, key performance indicators that helps analyze a hitter’s movement pattern.
During the 2022-2023 M.L.B. season, Lotief worked with Tim Hyers, Hitting Coach for the 2023 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS, Texas Rangers. Mike & Tim discussed hitting ideas and looked at hitting data, pouring through it manually at first, then interpreting it afterwards & coming up with the most simple, effective actionable interventions for each hitter in the line-up.
From this motion analysis, Swing Attractors formulated precise conclusions and gives specific solutions/answers to the Coach &/or player.
Mike Lotief, President/C.E.O. of Swing Attractors with Tim Hyers, Hitting Coach of 2023 WORLD SERIES Champions Texas Rangers, looking at hitters together during the 2022 off-season.
“Data collection, motion capture & motion analysis are very time consuming. Spend less time wrestling with technology; take the data sitting on the shelf now and get a visualization of your hitter’s movement profile on Swing Attractor’s user-friendly dashboard”, recommends Lotief.
Swing Attractors does motion analysis to help assist the coach reinforce cleaner functional movements that results in a more powerful, consistent, explosive swing.
“Motion capture, technology, analysis tools & data driven solutions have proven to be incredibly valuable and provide laser precision insights that eliminate the guessing game when evaluating hitters. Swing Attractors uses a process & systems approach specific to how great baseball hitters move using computations and calculations of key performance indicators on a user-friendly interface/dashboard”, according to Lotief.
Read more about “WHAT A SWING ATTRACTOR IS” here: https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/24/08/ab40456649/coach-mike-lotief-and-swing-attractors-release-the-explanation-of-what-swing-attractors-are-for-b
Goal of good MOTION ANALYSIS
The goal of good motion analysis is to make small adjustments that result in measurable effects. Swing Attractors objective is to suggest the smallest adjustment or simplest intervention possible that will have the greatest impact or make the most difference in the overall movement pattern.
What intervention will attract the best motor synergy? It may be: “don’t do that” or introducing a proprietary hitting device to give the hitter a FEEL without any explanation or a bunch of complicated words. Instead of talking mechanics, stay focused on movement patterns and reality-based FEELS.
The goal is to turn a hitter’s inefficiency or detractor into a SWING ATTRACTOR.
Using data & motion analysis is not to “prescribe” how to move; instead, it is to “diagnose” why. Motion analysis gives meaning to what the hitter is feeling; it gives purpose and structure to the hitter’s protocols.
Data and motion analysis captures a hitter’s “A” swing and preserves it FOREVER. It documents the hitter’s progression and development with objective measurements. There is a PERCEPTION-REALITY GAP; meaning a hitter’s feel can be very divorced from the actual data.
Conclusion
Good hitters “FEEL” their best movement patterns and then lose it. Here today, then gone tomorrow – then the constant struggle to find it again. Great hitters “KNOW” their best movement patterns and NEVER LOSE IT.
The data and motion analysis helps good hitters become great by helping them understand what they “remember feeling”.
Mike Lotief with Coach Tim Hyers at Globe-Life Field in Dallas at pre-game batting practice during the 2023 season wherein the Rangers won the WORLD SERIES.
About the author:
• Mike Lotief is C.E.O./President of Swing Attractors.
• Swing Attractors uses a biomechanics software and user-friendly dashboard to help coaches maximize the most from the data being collected. See full interview: https://inspirery.com/michael-lotief/
• Lotief graduated from L.S.U. Law School and practiced law in Louisiana.
• Coach Mike volunteered his time to coach recreational football, baseball & basketball in his community for 20 years.
• Coach Mike coached 17 successful years in college softball with an overall record of 731-176 (80.6 winning %).
• Coach Mike was part of 40 conference & NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS. He developed 25 All Americans & is inducted into the La. A.S.A. Hall of Fame.
• Lotief has invented/made hundreds of hitting devices.
• The coach is a 40 year cancer survivor (twice), endured massive radiation treatment in the 80s to his throat & neck; first person in the U.S. to receive Pro Trach breathing/speaking device; awarded the Perseverance Award by his peers in 2016 after despite undergoing a tracheotomy still coached his team to a conference championship & the finals of NCAA Super Regionals. Watch his acceptance speech: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qu2EpKPMt1M
• Lotief is married to Stefni Whitton Lotief (first All American in U.L.’s history; the couple proudly started & ran multiple successful fastpitch travel ball organizations; proud parents of Chelsea & Andrew.
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