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John Hanson you’re welcome John!

Blue Nova that’s what I like to hear! 🙌

Mike Klumb that’s what I like to hear 🙌

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Thunder Johnson You made you better! 👊😉

What are you talking about? no one ever swing down on the ball their is always upwards movement to a swing even if it’s a little

Carlos Bonilla yeah but the launch angle part is being done by big major leaguers. It works for them because they are so strong. It’s affecting youth players because they think they are mike trout, so they upper cut every pitch. The ball won’t go anywhere and they’re averages will be low. Instead of thinking swinging up, I prefer level, compact. Works for me because I’m not the biggest guy.

@@carlostattooz dude people used to swing down on the ball about 40 years ago

@@oufhorhgorhr0tier5gt12 We have a coach for my son for last 3yrs. The coach has long retired from professional baseball. He’s coaching my son to hit down thru the ball. It makes for a much more compact swing, shorter duration swing time, and the swing has the ability to follow breaking pitches. (Not that my son needs this yet the last 3 yrs. Maybe now he will start to see breaking pitches; he’s now in 12U) I do see a lot of other kids struggle with the way most coach teaches batting. The first one that kills me, is coaches telling kids to put the bat down across the entire plate, and set their front foot with toes touching the knob. Their reason is: now your swing can hit pitches over the entire width of the plate. I kid you not. This is what the rec league team’s head coach tells the kids to do. While pitcher’s that young (7U~10U) are not accurate in locating their pitches yet, but any pitch that gets on inside half of strike zone, the batter will be contacting with the throat of their bat. It’ll be a weak grounder and thrown out at first. Another that kills me, is those type of team coach will also tells kids: “flat level swing”. Like, why would they have you hold the bat up vertically, and then drop the barrel backwards towards the ump, and then drive forward on a flat plain swing. Really idiotic. Trying to tell them I’ve hired a private coach for my son on his batting, and telling them to stop “fixing” my son’s batting, is always an interesting conversation. There’s also this golf-like swing that some rec league team coaches like to tell kids. Kids that have adopted this golf-like swing, where they swing the barrel down and then try to contact the ball during the up-swing, I know the perfect spot to pitch them: on the upper edge of the strike zone. Ideally inside-high corner, where the ball will (at best case) hit their bat roughly 4 inches from their hands. With their golf-like swing mechanics, the only thing they’re going to hit with a high pitch is pop-up’s. What I really like about this video: 1) keeping body centered. Rotation supplies the power, not a shift of body position towards front foot. 2) keeping swing compact, like a short whip. 3) staying on inside half of the ball. Even using the seam for visualization. (Makes me wonder if this guest speaker is also a product from the same coach who’s teaching my son right now) 4) hit the ball to where it’s pitched at.

This is how they teach the swing now.

Raul Gutierrez thanks

Hey Raul if you like this check out my hitting videos🙏🏼

SkellyMage YT Glad they help

Chris Smith 🙌

Let’s listen to this random guy on UKposts instead of the mlb player. Any idiot can find a flaw in any drill with “coulda woulda” garbage.

James Torres 🙌

thatboy dre 3 of these 4 drills are great for that

Bular Work on your core. How old are you?

I have this problem too I’m 14 and would like to have the 33” instead of 31”

YouGoProBaseball 15

YouGoProBaseball thank you coach

Bular you definitely need a strong core and a strong and mobile body. Are you doing any baseball specific workouts currently?

Dark Zero. Let me know how it goes 🙌

cortezmauricio56 we got a shot! It came out the gate hot and did 21K in less than 2 days. Fastest grower on this channel ever so far!

Nice profile picture.

David Barnes Yes, check these out: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/eahinauRaYOHrac.html

Coach, with muscle memory being a key component to hitting well, wouldn’t you want to train hitters to visualize a pitcher being on the mound, them winding up, and delivering the ball to the tee? If you’re talking about after the swing, I agree a thousand percent. Unfortunately, more and more hitters these days are opening their front foot up to point at the pitcher, which over rotates their hips, making their head fly up (often times, even before contact is made). Like you said; seeing the ball is crucial to hitting success. All the core power, bat speed, and hand-eye coordination in the world won’t help a batter hit an object that they don’t see.

@@BamaFan747 I think you and Hugh are saying basically the same thing. Hugh’s point relates to hitting from a tee on the field. Kids instinctly want to see where their hit went. To see how well they did. That tends to take their eyes off the ball an instant BEFORE contact. Ball on a tee doesn’t move and has no break. If this batting style becomes a habit, that kid will struggle with hitting real pitches. I help out on my son’s team as one of the assistant parent/coach. Most of the kids striking out, that’s the #1 problem: they didn’t track the ball all the way from pitcher’s release to contact point. To have properly seen contact, the batter needs to train their eyes to stay on the contact spot for a small duration after contact.

Classically Modern Thanks 🙌

Jonas Cook sure can! I’ll post one tomorrow!

@@YouGoPro thanks man

Jonas Cook you’re welcome

Mark the balls with a colored spot and make them tell you the color before they swing .

I thought with the 2017 or 2018 move to “USA Baseball Bat” certification, they reduced the trampoline effect to be more “wood bat like”. Are you talking about USSSA bats that are used in some travel ball leagues?

I was wondering why this video has over 100,000 views! Now I know it’s thatboydre! 👊😉

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Fly ingDutch 🤔

It's the best way to get better technique. Your comment is clueless.

Every pro level guy uses tees😂😂