I posted a video of me hitting during last summer during a game, and after taking the advice I was given, I taped me hitting off of a tee in my basement today....any more tips and especially drills to improve would be much appreciated
Originally posted by plp556: I posted a video of me hitting during last summer during a game, and after taking the advice I was given, I taped me hitting off of a tee in my basement today....any more tips and especially drills to improve would be much appreciated
You have the tee way too close. I don't think you can be fixed on this board. You need to find a good hitting instructor that can put you in the right contact position for different pitches. You are going to struggle with the swing you have now. It is way too much of a down swing (some of which is caused by the tee being too close). If you can't afford a good instructor, PM me and I will try to help a little. Are you playing High School ball?
Posts: 577 | Location: mid west | Registered: January 23, 2008
In order to establish your swing using a tee, set the tee directly in front of you rather than forward.
With the tee set forward, you have a tendency to swing to the ball, but do not get the long thru the zone swing.
With the tee set in front of you preferably on the outside part of the plate, you will develop good arm extension as well as a short to the zone, long through the zone swing.
Remember always, do not swing hard, swing fast.
Watch, listen and try to incorporate these swings into yours.
The tee is way too close. It should be out in front of your front foot.
I'm looking at your first swing. Your front shoulder has flown open before you make contact with the ball. Spinning (or hitting around the ball) is going to make it very difficult to hit well as pitchers get better.
Spinning also leads to "dragging the bat". By spinning, you are pulling the bat through the zone with your front shoulder instead of pushing it. Hands should initiate the swing (think speed not power. Loose instead of tense). Hands lead the body.
Focus on leading with the hands and getting them right, take the body out of it for now. If the hands are right, the body will follow.
Video tape yourself from the rear and you will see what I'm talking about.
I agree with Chris. You should find a professor instructor to work with. If you are serious about baseball, that will get your swing fixed a lot faster than a few posts on the internet.
Posts: 118 | Location: Southfield, MI | Registered: October 04, 2006
Every Mon for the next six weeks starting today, Turtle Thomas will appear on the website I have enclosed the link. Coach Thomas is a college hitting coach that has appeared in the College World series 14 times.
Every Mon for the next six weeks starting today, Turtle Thomas will appear on the website I have enclosed the link. Coach Thomas is a college hitting coach that has appeared in the College World series 14 times.
I don't agree with much of what he says. He has a couple of drills that John Cohen at U of K does, but he doesn't, IMO, understand what they are trying to accomplish. He is saying PUSH your back knee through and Cohen says PULL your back knee through.
Posts: 577 | Location: mid west | Registered: January 23, 2008
Strictly my guesses and offerings. It appears you like to crowd. And to turn on ball, you have to clear front side (early) to get hands through. The hands are kept back because if you commit them too early you will be easily suckered on change. Keeping hands back (with front side opening early, causes drag. Rushed clearing of the front side causes upper body to turn with hips (sorta same time to get movement in), rather than hips first and then upper body ( good observation by deemax). This takes away from your power. But crowding and opening early with the hands back has its advantages. Bet you always get the bat on the ball. Here’s what I mean:
why you like the inside fastball and still can go oppo.
Of course CF camera shots with the pitcher in view would really show. Don’t know if you agree (or care to), but there are some suggestions to work on, if you like.
Posts: 15 | Location: pittsburgh | Registered: March 12, 2005
The first one had a small ping pong ball on it since I can't be hitting baseballs into the fireplace haha....then it broke so I just swung without one
Where there's a will, there's a way! Way to keep at it kid!
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