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I have developed a device that fits perfectly with this concepts. interested?

100 Ft homerun?

We do a similar drill but substitute an old, fold-up, resin picnic table for the tire. Not only does this teach the athletes not to dump the barrel, but allows them to experience what it feels like for the barrel to be on plane. We want them to keep the barrel in the zone for as long as possible. Invariably they will hit the table the first few swings, but they learn pretty quickly to keep the barrel on plane. The kids kind of dismiss it, but I find its the single, most effective hitting drill we perform. Instant results.

Great info here. I play slowpitch softball and see many load with their hands too. Great video and explanation.

Loves this! Going to walmart right now!

Great lesson. I'm gonna show this to my 10 yr old.

Excellent. I never really played baseball growing up but now I'm coaching my son and daughter (baseball and softball, respectively). Your videos are a huge resource for someone just breaking into the game. I wish we were local to you... you'd have two new (or three new) students. :)

Great and easy explanation.

Can you make a video on how to feel the load?

You played for burtonsville storm?

You are scooping , bat in front of hands, not good

What is going right with your swing when you practice this swing?

WHAT AN AWESOME routine....thank you!!!!!!

Love the drill...Quick question...why is the tee not out in front of the plate? Is that for this drill?

I taught my kid to hit opposite field so well that he looks at low inside fastballs and says he can’t hit them. Now I have to teach him something most hitters do naturally. He’s a lefty and taking pitches that should be hit over the left fielder’s head. I implore you to have your students hit to all fields off the tee to make them well rounded hitters 😂

You are performing a highly technical manipulation in this. You are consciously keeping your hips uncommitted while landing open. The commitment begins after forward push off that back foot.

great content and delivery ...... please get a remote mike because your audio is in and out !

What are the dimensions of this PVC pipe?

u seem to be a hidden genius . about to download ur content to my brain

Gotta be honest, this is one of the best practice tools I've seen used to accentuate how the keep the bat close to your body and release the bat to the ball. Ty!

So, letting it run deep, you push to oppo?

Just curious, why don't you break your right wrist after contact when follow through and swinging high, it looks unnatural? I saw the young softballer do it as well a few times. Is that a practice format?

This hurt me watching wtffffffffff

Looks like u need some teacherman in your life

Thank you so much. Just yesterday, I was coaching a player on this. Your video is going to help a lot.

I agree some people take the hands thing way too far into the swing. I think you can initially take hands to the ball but that barrel is number one priority if you want to hit the ball it’s hardest and have consistent contact! Great job and great swing

Your turn is correct however your bat path isn’t optimal. The high level swing has some funky drills to get you on the correct bat plane. In your demonstration, you swing down on the ball which we have all decided is not correct. I hit well in high school with your exact swing. I was also using a very light -5 bat that was over juiced. After HS with heavy bats, it was a train wreck. You could use your turn, but your bat path needs to drop your barrel off your shoulder down to at least a level plane. A down angle reduces the length of time to make contact with the ball. A bat path on plane with the ball extends the time so you can be slightly off and sill hit the ball well. Work on turning that barrel!

What you are saying in your video is correct and you do not want to be steep to the ball. If you pause your video around 2 minute 39 seconds and pause at launch and then the turn and then contact you are going to see you are very steep and doing what you said exactly not to do. Your hands at set up were above your ears like Trout but unlike Trout whos hands come down to at or below his shoulders like every other mlb player yours stay above your ears at launch and from there you take your hands directly down about a foot to the ball. That makes your swing steep and possibly disconnected. That is contrary to your instructions in the beginning of your video that happen to be correct. And dropping your hands to the shoulder level just before getting to launch is not necessarily dumping the barrel. your hands should be in a sense are an extention of your back shoulder and have a connected swing. Your hands should not be moving up or down as they are coming forward. That can be performed by either lowering your hands before launch during the stride like many old time hitters or preferably these days via hip hinge and setting your path or plane via your hip hinge creating the correct plane for your shoulders and bat to be on for a powerful connected swing with the barrel getting in the zone early and staying in long for power and consistency respectively. Your instruction in the beginning is correct and your swing motion is not nor as you instructed. Opposite of the common feel vs real when they say swing down but actually swing on plane and correctly. One last thing the correct swing is the swing that gets the batter good results. It is not a one size fits all. Yes 99 percent of mlb players have the same swing from launch position and are on plane and connected with the barrel turning behind them deep in the zone but that does not mean it is correct for everyone. If a player can hit for high average and power with a steep disconnected swing or even a slow pitch softball swing or whatever than that is the correct swing. I am not a math or physics teacher nor a "hitting instructor " I am only some guy. Some guy that may know a little about hitting baseballs. Maybe not. And btw "hitting instructors" are funny. Since there are no required schooling and exams and licensing requirements people simply say they are a hitting instructor and start instructing or take a job as a hitting instructor even with an mlb team or likely milb team first or earlier but most of the time online and little kids with nobody to be able to say much. Tomorrow maybe I am going to become an astronaut and the day after a dr and this way when I make a comment on a video I can start my comment by saying I am an astronaut and that is not how to properly fly a rocket to the moon or I am a dr and it is not the correct way to perform plastic surgery. People are bananas. Keep up the good work bud your instruction is spot on. Fix the path in the video though. Be good

I see batting tees like that in a lot of videos. What is it?

" launch angle people will not be happy about this one " .... gold :)

The more that I learn about swing mechanics, the more I am coming to the conclusion that deceleration generates the whip to really make for a high velocity swing. That said, I hate this metaphor every time I hear it. The water in the cup was always going 60mph, hitting the brakes did not change that. I think more like crashing the drivers side of the car into a telephone pole. What happens to the passenger side? It immediately begins rotating. I'm sure there's a better metaphor too. But the "car brakes make stuff in the car fly" metaphor just isn't valid science and is a disservice IMO to the scientific basis for deceleration creating whip in the bat.

Sorry but I am a hitting instructor and your explanation of back spin is inconsistent with the physics and geometry of hitting.

I can’t believe more people aren’t watching y’all…great stuff!! I use your advice and tips for my sophomore who was recently moved up to varsity… thanks for what you guys are doing!!!

You change the spot that you were standing in on the two tee swings???

Hey man you are really great! Like I mean this from the bottom of my heart!

Thank you for the pointer this helped

one of the best instructions lessons on the proper tilt..... please keep up the great work

That dumb old man, the aaron judge guy all he teachs is dumping the barrel

Best information -- yet!

Your videos are quite good, concise, and informative. Keep up the great work!

love this, tried this drill and my swing feels way better

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Thanks! I was told that "the best hitters are not accelerators, but decelerators." I accelerate but nothing slows down so this is helpful, thank you.

I've been looking for a video like this !!

Seems HR hitters are dumping barrel to get angle of attack 20-30 degrees. Harper.

This is similar to teacherman's positions. I really like how simple this device is yet it shows your point SO clearly. Great explanation too.

Great video. It always drove me crazy when people associated bat path with launch angle. Bat path should always be the same… In plane with the pitched ball. It’s where on the ball the the bat makes contact that produces launch angle. The number one goal should be to consistently hit barrels whether it’s a line drive, deep fly ball or hard ground ball. When your swing is really dialed in and you’re consistently making hard contact then you can start focusing on launch angle a little bit and turning more singles into doubles and homers.

Very true love this video great job Luke

Can you please go more in-depth into how to get the top hand extension? What are the wrists/hands doing? Is it a push with the top hand or a release of the wrists?? Thanks in advance.

Do You play for soar