For all those who go to hitting lessons.... I have a question..

How exactly are your lessons handled? Does the coach front toss and instruct from there? Or use a pitching machine?

My son had a different hitting coach this year, and he uses a machine, not much actual coaching as to mechanics going on.

Last year's coach did a lot of picking apart of mechanics....

My son hit with more power this year, but batting ave. was lower.

Hi,
Son's hitting lesson starts out on the tee. Then the instructor tosses from the side. Then tosses underhand
from in front. (behind screen)

Then if everything looks good with mechanics, overhand.
Never hits off the machine. Lots of instruction and correction.

Not always the same but generally:

Discussion of what he worked on while away.

First off T and/or hitaway. (stationary ball) Discussion on how he is doing on what he working on. Video, (not always but maybe 50% of the time) Review video. Back to T/HW with more work after video review. Sometimes drills to address issue at hand.

Once he has worked through an issue he is addressing then some days he will go in cage and hit off of a machine after stationary hitting. Video and review of live hitting video.

Discussion on what he will work on until next session.

Practice sessions must correlate with game type situations in order for an athlete or athletes to become as successful as they are physical and mentally capable of being, you play the way you practice,so why practice the opposite of the way you play? and you time a pitched ball coming from a pitchers hand standing on a mound during games, timing is the essence of hitting successfully and consistently so why would you hit from a pitching machine other than am irpn mike with the arm cover off so you can see the full movement of the arm and also see the ball come off of the hand to time it and or spend your time as a pitcher throwing on flat ground? get up on that mound and work and learn how to throw the ball where you want it to go other than an iron mike with the arm cover off so you can see the full movement of the arm and be able to see the ball come off the hand to time it? we hit off of iron mikes in spring training, with the arm off,
BaseballMom10keep up the good work but have him hit off of someone throwing from a mound the way it is done during game times at bat, have him throw balls up and hit them into a screen,I used to hit rocks over and over in our driveway, many of the old timers in the 40's hit bottle caps with broom sticks when one can hit those small objects with s broom sticks one is seeing the contact being made,"SEE THE BALL""HIT THE BALL,"
Much success to all

Don Ervin
kom_ervin@yahoo.com

Hitting lessons,
One lesson per. week thirty minutes or other wise at$35bucks per. half an hour is a pure waste of time and money, there is not a person any where major league or otherwise who is worth that kind of money unless maybe they are excellent teachers of which there are very few of any where in baseball clear up to and including the major leagues, teaching is an art and unless one has done much more than just playing, like taking the time to study and become excellent students of the game which very few players do, they certainly are not teachers and this is the main reason that so many hitters fail miserably and do not make it in pro-ball, and is also the main reason that there are numerous unnecessary chronic arm problems,blown out arms and operations from the major leagues on down to our youth as young as 13-14 yrs.old because there is virtually no one qualified to each them how to use their whole body from the ground up which when executed properly alleviates the abuse and strain on the arm that the unnatural act of throwing a baseball creates. the recreational clubs or the smart people who want to learn suggest to do so within at least a three day cycle, 1st, middle and last of a week on a regular basis so they are on a regular cycled learning curve and can retain what they learn and never have to keep going back to square one at each next lesson, as I mentioned, being a major league player or even a coach certainly does not qualify one as a teacher,three major league coaches held a baseball camp at a college in kansas a few years ago and they wasted their time and the players time due to the fact they were not teachers in any sense of the word and they could not communicate with the players The lack of qualified teachers from the major league level on down certainly is prevalent in all of baseball and the players arecertainly suffering from it, it is like Joe Morgan,Rob Ellis and others say that baseball needs to be brought back to the way it was originally meant to be played.
All pros and cons are certainly welcome.
Don Ervin
kom_ervin@yahoo.com