January 30, 2012

Learn Baseball Drills From The Best

This is one of my favorite baseball hitting drills called the fence drill. This drill saved a season for me, both off the tee and when somebody was basically throwing balls to me underhand from the front, obviously from behind an L screen or some type of protective device. You want to stand fairly close to the net and place the bat at your navel. I reccomend that you stand about a foot away from the net. This is basically punishment if we dive too much or we over rotate and come in. We are going to hit the net. This is going to make us to stay square. This is going to persuade us to let a ball get deep if it is moving.

Right now, I’d set up in this position and now I have to stay square to get thru the ball.

You can see I would like to keep my hands tight otherwise I’m going to hit the fence. We need to find the distance that is comfortable and now I come down thru the ball. The fence is going to prevent us from reaching out too far with our hands, from diving too much.

If you’ve a problem rotating your shoulders, now when we come out I'm going to run into this fence. It’s kind of like punishment. It doesn’t hurt, however it lets us know, it’s automatically going to keep our hands where they need to be. I set up in this position, now I come right to the ball. See how tight I was in a position to stay. Yes we may drag along the fence a little bit, but it will keep us short.

So if you have got a problem diving too much, over rotating, just not staying excessively balanced, use this drill. It’s going to force your backend to get thru. It’ll help you improve. It’s called the fence drill. It'll help you’ve an amazing game.

Don Jenkins is a retired minor league baseball coach and now spends his time training his son’s little league team. He trains with baseball tee drills and gives catching instruction that he has learned from his experience in baseball.

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January 29, 2012

How To Improve Your Baseball Skills

I have a tip for you. Perhaps a small number of you out there have difficulty dropping your hands, perhaps even higher cutting at the ball. I got a baseball tee drill that will help you out. It happens off a tee.

What I would like to do is begin with a tee that is high. When I have the ball up high, an uppercut’s not going to work. You can do this drill continually. But what it should force you to do is stay on top of the ball, here. You have got difficulty with with dropping your hands and trying to swing this way, you can see I am going to have difficulty getting on top of this ball.

What you need to do, put the tee up high and work on hitting line drives of ground balls. From this point, I would like to come down on the ball. It may drill your back leg working. It will work on your hands staying above the ball. This is going to need to occur over and over for you to get used to not doing this. But we wish to stay up top and come down. I believe that may help you.

Do this drill a lot. Don’t forget, hitting is muscle memory. The more often you can do it, the more you will get used to it. We will be able to dump that dropping of the hands or that uppercut.

Get in a proper position and work down over the top of the ball. So use this high tee drill to help improve an uppercut or dropping the hands. It’ll help you out immensely. It helped me, so I am sure with time and practice it will help you. If you use this drill, your swing will improve and will lead to a good game.

Bobby Hilton is a high school baseball coach who once was a minor league baseball player. He has learned drills from the top coaches in major league baseball, in particular catcher instruction and baseball hitting drills.

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Becoming Your Own Batting Instructor

If a player is fortunate to play baseball long enough, there will come a point in his career where he is going to be all alone. No one will be watching him, and it will be on him to correct himself to perform. That day came when I was Freshman in college. About half way through my freshman year, I struggled as hard as anyone has ever struggled! I finished the last part of the season 5 for 45 , which is also known as a baseball batting average of .111. If anyone was wondering, those numbers are not going to get you into the Hall of Fame! The worst part about it, is it didn’t stop there. My struggles continued through summer all the way through the majority of my sophomore year.

Going with the flow came back to bite me half way through my freshman year in college. My “flow” started hitting poorly and my talent was being questioned. I went into panic mode trying to figure out my baseball batting mechanics. In all honesty, I hadn’t really taken the time to learn so I had to start from scratch. Well, learning from scratch took me significantly longer than you would think. As a result, my struggles continued through my summer season through the majority of my sophomore season.

In college, at least in my experience, they didn’t care too much about correction or development. It was about getting stronger and performance. I effectively did one of the two! As a result, I had to go back and revisit every piece of baseball batting training info I had ever learned.

The plus side to the story is I figured it out! I finished my career as a Two Time Captain batting over .300 my final two years in college. However, all my struggles could have been avoided if I had just paid a little more attention to what I was being taught when I was younger.

When push came to shove, all that I had to do was spend a little more time paying attention to what I was being taught when I was younger. Why am I making this correction? Why is coaching making this adjustment now? What caused me to fail? What caused me to succeed? If I had taken the time to just answers these questions, I would have known my own baseball swing a lot better!

Be ready for that moment, and come prepared. If you don’t, you are sure to face the same type of struggles that I did.

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