Hitting Analysis Helps Players and Coaches It is difficult for coaches to remember players’ swing tendencies, especially from practice to practice, and with the many players on a team. Having a written hitting analysis evaluation is very helpful so coaches can recall those players’ swing tendencies without having to watch players for that recollection. Having [...]
Stop Popping Up a Baseball Video Instruction Besides striking out, nothing is more frustrating for batters than continually popping up, or hitting weak fly balls. Unfortunately, the solution to stop popping up a baseball is not as simple as just telling players to stop upper cutting, dropping their hands, or dropping their shoulder. Sometimes, a [...]
Baseball Hitting Elbow Position Debate Rages On As I have written about before, I often find myself saying opposite things to different players. One batter I may say “Let’s lower your back elbow a little,” and to the next, “Let’s get that back elbow up a little.” Every player can have their own style but [...]
Understanding Reaction Time as it Pertains to Batting Practice It is disappointing to realize that I have screwed up many of my hitting students over the years because I did not consider reaction time, when it came to throwing batting practice. I should have known better, but, being a believer in challenging players to help [...]
Hitting Drills for Baseball that Produce Contact The following hitting drills for baseball may seem drastic, but when batters fail to make contact continually, drastic measures are necessary. There is no mistaking that the hips play a big part in the baseball swing. The explosive hip turn provides much of the bat speed, resulting in [...]
Most Challenging of Hitting Drills It is very perplexing to see batters hardly ever miss a pitched ball in batting practice, only to strike out quite often in games. “What the heck,” is my thought when I see that? Obviously, challenging batters correctly in batting practice is not occurring. Imagine having a hitting drill that [...]
Curve Ball Batting Practice Drill I throw curve balls to young hitters, even players younger than little league age, to help them understand timing and ball movement at a young age. Of course, when I do this curve ball batting practice drill with young players it is with softer baseballs, rag balls or tennis balls, [...]
How to Coach Baseball Hitting – Not Always a Simple Answer There is no simple way when it comes to how to coach baseball hitting. To make that point here is an illustration of what I mean, when it comes to how to coach baseball hitting with young ball players. When working with a team [...]
What are Hitting Styles Every hitter has their individual hitting style and coaches generally allow players to have their own style, as long as they have the correct swing mechanics. Think of hitting style as the approach players have in their set-up that helps them be the type hitter they should be. Notice I [...]
Best Baseball Coaching Help Tip for Batting Average Increase This is cool because with just one baseball coaching help tip players can raise their batting average and it has little to do with their baseball hitting mechanics. This baseball coaching help tip is one way I know helps kids in just one lesson, whether they [...]
