Post on 16-Dec-2015
There are many different styles of hitting, but there are a few consistencies when it comes to point of contact
Set-upSquare to plate
Elbows similar height
Shoulders level = head/eyes level
Proper grip - -Knocker knuckles - 45° - out of palm
Hands at chin level Relaxed shoulders Relaxed grip Weight 60/40 Bat at 45° angle/ parallel with armpit to elbow angle of front arm
Remember this guy?(Hands droppedLost his front side “L”)
Front foot roll-over = over rotation by shoulders
Doesn’t get heel over toe on backside
Collapsing front leg =No power in hip rotation
Hooking!!!
Stride and Load
Keep the “L” and Stay parallel !!
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Hands move back and up on load in a backward letter “C”Motion.* Then hands move forward and down to ball maintaining closeness to body “inside path”
C
Inside Circle is made by your hands
Outside Circle is made by your bat head
The tighter the inside circle = less distance on swing = quicker= less casting/hooking= more time to watch pitch= better pitch selection = more production
Good pivot by the hips, but bad “bar arm”
Hands casting away from the body (big inner circle)
Bad head flopping (swinging around the ball)
Inside or behind the ball * hands have not activated, which prevents rolling-over. * allows for extension after contact
If you hook the ball by hitting the outside part,Your wrists have already activated, and you are pulling the bat through the zone, and there is no snap of the wrist (bat head speed), and no acceleration through contact
Spin force = hooked foul
No extension through contact
Swinging across the ball
Bat being pulled across the ball
Ball will roll-off the end of the bat = spinning toward right field line
Hands in front of barrel
Elbow in slot in front of barrel
Locked-out front side
Heel over toe
If hands are in front of barrel, wrists have not activated = no roll-over
Hands in front of barrel
Elbow in slot
Locked-out front side
Heel over toe
If hands are in front of barrel, wrists have not activated = no roll-over
Knee driven forward, not kneel driven back
Do not want to swing across the ball
*caused by no forward movement on stride. Player goes up and down, pulls shoulders off ball, and swings across the pitch
Long extension through point of contact
*short to it = inside circle * long through it = extension through contact point
*Short to it, long through it”