I've heard most people say not to trouble to hit up at the angle of the ball . To wait for it to come down and swing level and aim for more of the bottom half of the ball for power to get a backspin.
Thanks for the tip. I'm amazed at the response to this video despite some of the mistakes I made. Still learning as a video producer. Thanks for watching.
2:30 as well as the injury concern, its also really easy to tell when its happening then. as soon as you do the step, every single person on defence knows immediately that your trying to go oppo
The problem with an upward swing is that it may harm your swing, cause far too many pop up outs and definitely hurt your batting average if you’re in a limited Home Run league or just can’t hit it over the fence consistently. I prefer the old Ray DeMarini tutorial vid with the level power swing. Besides, the few Home Runs I’ve hit were from hitting the lower half of the ball, causing that ‘Top Spin Heat’, where you can see the ball jerking upwards in flight.
im having a tendency right now to get under the ball and pop it up. any quick tips to get this stopped. i was wayyyyyyyy better 13 years ago at church league. now that Im older, i havent been able to find my swing that I had.
Disagree with the last step. Diffidently do not angle the bat towards the ball. You cut through the ball. MAYBE you’ll hit it hard once or twice, but angling will make you roll over more than hit for power.
My family had a softball team that was all family. ( snatchko brother’s softball) Didn’t get on the team unless you’re name was “snatchko” they were stone cold badasses! Especially Dave and Rodger Snatchko. Everyone always tells me stories about Dave putting softballs out of 3 rivers stadium one after the other.
Side note, Greg hit 4 over the fence at last night's softball game - including a grand slam! I guess the only thing more impressive would be if he starts calling his shots. Way to go, Greg!
Idk why but he just seems like the guy who shows up to the field every league night looking for a team who is short a player.. plays short stop and pitcher.
In the hips and the bat thing he only really talked about the bat it’s really the hips and the bat working together(mostly the hips,unless you are very strong in your arms)
And once again another big guy steps up! Duh … home run power!Some people never mention the fact that the little guys are born with fast twitch muscle fibers and may work out specifically. I’ve been playing for years. When I was in my mid twenty’s I worked out and was 170lbs. Still difficult then to hit home runs. Did I hit some yes. But not many. Today I’m 55 and have less than warning track power. 250’. No one ever mentions fast twitch muscle fibers ever in a softball swing! Never!
If you’re small this won’t cut it you’ll probably be better off with your natural swing these tips don’t help much but the basics of how to swing a bat. If you’re small you have to learn how to cut the ball. If you want to hit home runs. Mainly small in weight, height doesn’t make a huge difference.
Other than getting your back hip through, these tips are horrible. If you swing up at the ball and hit it square or top spin, it won’t go very far. If you can’t put back spin on the ball it’ll never go as far. This isn’t baseball where you match the plane of the pitch and can still smash a ball far that comes off the bat knuckling. Why do you think pitchers in baseball throw fastballs with back spin and it looks like the ball doesn’t have any sink if thrown over the top? Why do you think a curve ball sinks and knuckle balls drop? If you shoot a ball through a two wheel juggs pitching machine and set it on a homerun angle as a knuckle ball or curve ball, it’ll drop in the outfield (depending on how fast you set it). If you set it to shoot out at the same speed but with back spin it’ll carry waaaaay further. Every Homer hit has back spin unless you absolutely smash it. Nobody has ever miss hit a ball that had top spin or no spin over the fence unless playing on a tiny field. Softballs fly different than baseballs. You have to hit it with back spin if you want to hit long bombs.
This is a good humor video I guess but definitely check out other channels if you really want to learn how to improve your hitting. Following these tips are going to make you pop out a lot and that's pretty much the worst thing you can do in slow pitch. It almost feels like a joke/meme but the RUclips algorithm is sending players looking to improve here unfortunately.
Yes the speed of the ball of the super bats ,has made a great competitive sport just to risky for alot of players. They have lives to live away from the game...
You will impress me when you go back to the early 70s take a wooden bat and hit the same ball used then and hit 400ft bombs right handed and turn around and hit 400ft bombs Left handed . I new a guy .
Gotta love all these cats hitting these shaved bats now a days....the days of the 150 200 swings 2 3 X a week BP and actually learning to hit....are gone..now guys weighing 155 with a bat on roids 325 is not setting the bar high...
How about guys just stick to baseball softball is a woman's sport and none of these guys could hit fast pitch softball. The do slow pitch softball because they can't hit anything that comes in fast. So let girls have their sports and go play slow pitch baseball lol.
If a guy is still trying to find rec baseball or fastpitch leagues in his 30's+, you're just trying to hang on to your high school dreams. Let it go. Play slow pitch. Your sports dreams are over anyway.
This isn’t the best video out there.... going oppo has absolutely nothing to do with hitting it deep. And there’s nothing wrong with swaying your bat. Do whatever stance makes you comfortable.
03:28 - FINALLY! Someone who acknowledged how hard it is for us rookies to hit a slow, looping pitch when also know to swing level. Thanks!
“Lot smaller than me that hits further” steps in a enormous man
I know right. Guys looks like he benches 400 lbs
All these years I haven't been stepping, something I have to work on!!! Thank you. Just have to work on the power shift!
That grip completely changed the way I was swinging. So much more power off the bat with that release. Thanks guys!
I've heard most people say not to trouble to hit up at the angle of the ball . To wait for it to come down and swing level and aim for more of the bottom half of the ball for power to get a backspin.
This video should be a meme
Okay
That’s not how memes work
The first part
Heres some tips on how to jack homer runs. Tip #1 push the ball to oppo ........................
Ummm
Thank you! I've got a student-teacher game coming up. This'll help.
Tip #1, never show the audience that it didnt go over the fence but pretend that it did.
Thanks for the tip. I'm amazed at the response to this video despite some of the mistakes I made. Still learning as a video producer. Thanks for watching.
Right! I could plainly see that swing would not knock the ball over the fence! Made me laugh! 😉But Nice video!@@manlymoments8544
Tomahawk and backspin cut with overlap grip is my go to 👍👍 I miss playing.
That first one was a Chinese home run,( over the Wong fence.)
Lmao. Don't let twitter see this, otherwise you're going to get canceled
@@dumon4264can i guess your age
Watch out Greg. He’s in the mood for a tossed salad 😳
2:30 as well as the injury concern, its also really easy to tell when its happening then. as soon as you do the step, every single person on defence knows immediately that your trying to go oppo
The problem with an upward swing is that it may harm your swing, cause far too many pop up outs and definitely hurt your batting average if you’re in a limited Home Run league or just can’t hit it over the fence consistently.
I prefer the old Ray DeMarini tutorial vid with the level power swing.
Besides, the few Home Runs I’ve hit were from hitting the lower half of the ball, causing that ‘Top Spin Heat’, where you can see the ball jerking upwards in flight.
DiMarini was the man and made some revolutionary bats.
Awesome pic for the video
I'm 6'1" tall, what bat do you recommend me? thanks!
Funny, hitting those fruits & veggies ! I pitch a lot of " meatballs" in BP.
“Some guys are a lot smaller”
Brings in a guy 1 inch shorter and 50 pounds heavier
😂
im having a tendency right now to get under the ball and pop it up. any quick tips to get this stopped. i was wayyyyyyyy better 13 years ago at church league. now that Im older, i havent been able to find my swing that I had.
Disagree with the last step. Diffidently do not angle the bat towards the ball. You cut through the ball. MAYBE you’ll hit it hard once or twice, but angling will make you roll over more than hit for power.
and fly out like crazy
Great tips and funny vid
This is the most softball video I’ve ever seen 🤣🤣
Hi guys! thank you for the tips. 👏
Pretty cool thanks
My family had a softball team that was all family. ( snatchko brother’s softball) Didn’t get on the team unless you’re name was “snatchko” they were stone cold badasses! Especially Dave and Rodger Snatchko. Everyone always tells me stories about Dave putting softballs out of 3 rivers stadium one after the other.
"I'm in the mood for a tossed salad." I'm still laughing immaturely.
Side note, Greg hit 4 over the fence at last night's softball game - including a grand slam! I guess the only thing more impressive would be if he starts calling his shots. Way to go, Greg!
What was the fence set @ like the girls 🥎 orange fence kinda thing. Like 200 dead center lol
wow, thats 4 more than in this whole video!!
Manly Moments must’ve been a reallllllllly short porch
I play softball and I wanna learn too!!
This isnt the video to do so... ;-;
Kupkake Kittie oh im sorry i wasnt talking to u
@@xxariexx7419 This video just isnt extremely helpful in learning... Sorry if I made you upset/confused
Kupkake Kittie oh well I just thought I could learn more from it..!
This video is amazing.
Thanks, Greg Kreiger, for making this such a fun video to shoot!
Idk why but he just seems like the guy who shows up to the field every league night looking for a team who is short a player.. plays short stop and pitcher.
This is how I envision half the dads trying to give hitting lessons to their 10yr old 🤣
Hey now your an all star
Lmao the thumbnail is someone throwing a bunch of lettuce in the air
You want to level and square up the ball. Angling or what ever he calls it will result in lazy fly balls .
Video says 4 years old but acting and edits say 1980s
In the hips and the bat thing he only really talked about the bat it’s really the hips and the bat working together(mostly the hips,unless you are very strong in your arms)
Starts at 1:56
I can hit home runs in practice…. But can only pop it straight up in a game
I would've just pulled out a fork and crawled around with a bottle of salad dressing eating all the battered veggies
Great form shown by the big guy especially the hip rotation. Food hitting was funny!!
Im way to high for this tom foolery
I’m high as shit watching this 😂
"Too"
nahh fool😂
This like a Kenny powers commercial 😂
I am only 5'6" and 125lbs. Do you really think I can knock one out - 250 ft. away?
I can't predict whether you can or will, but I've seen guys your size hit it way farther than I could have ever imagined.
@@familymomentsfun - Okay! Thanks for the encouragement!
I hope your a girl cause men don't play on that size of field
And once again another big guy steps up! Duh … home run power!Some people never mention the fact that the little guys are born with fast twitch muscle fibers and may work out specifically. I’ve been playing for years. When I was in my mid twenty’s I worked out and was 170lbs. Still difficult then to hit home runs. Did I hit some yes. But not many. Today I’m 55 and have less than warning track power. 250’. No one ever mentions fast twitch muscle fibers ever in a softball swing! Never!
So manly
Are they hitting plastic balls?
Oh thats why i hit it like that i will definitely use my feet a lot more thank you!
If you’re small this won’t cut it you’ll probably be better off with your natural swing these tips don’t help much but the basics of how to swing a bat. If you’re small you have to learn how to cut the ball. If you want to hit home runs. Mainly small in weight, height doesn’t make a huge difference.
I think he has tossed alot of salads
These guys are Chad as fuck
I refuse to play against this man
Looks like he likes getting his salad tossed😂
Other than getting your back hip through, these tips are horrible. If you swing up at the ball and hit it square or top spin, it won’t go very far. If you can’t put back spin on the ball it’ll never go as far. This isn’t baseball where you match the plane of the pitch and can still smash a ball far that comes off the bat knuckling. Why do you think pitchers in baseball throw fastballs with back spin and it looks like the ball doesn’t have any sink if thrown over the top? Why do you think a curve ball sinks and knuckle balls drop? If you shoot a ball through a two wheel juggs pitching machine and set it on a homerun angle as a knuckle ball or curve ball, it’ll drop in the outfield (depending on how fast you set it). If you set it to shoot out at the same speed but with back spin it’ll carry waaaaay further. Every Homer hit has back spin unless you absolutely smash it. Nobody has ever miss hit a ball that had top spin or no spin over the fence unless playing on a tiny field. Softballs fly different than baseballs. You have to hit it with back spin if you want to hit long bombs.
Thanks for sharing, Shanti. Great tips! Not so kind on the horrible comment, but everyone's entitled to their opinion.
at least now at P.E i can actually hit the ball
Fat, hard drinking dudes are the best hitters!😂
freeze stuff with dry ice and bat it into obliteration.
Sounds like a great idea for another softball video this summer!
😂 this is great!
None of them balls left the park 😅😅😅🤦♂️
Your photo of lettuce is actually of green cabbage.
Dudes dead wrong on a few things.
All arms
Mashed
Great video however he did lose me at “tossed salad”…
Pepper
Softball is softball and hard ball is hard ball! In hardball you CAN'T step in to go oppo lol
Smaller, but 200 pounds heavier. Lol
Them ISA guys are hilarious.....
This is a good humor video I guess but definitely check out other channels if you really want to learn how to improve your hitting. Following these tips are going to make you pop out a lot and that's pretty much the worst thing you can do in slow pitch. It almost feels like a joke/meme but the RUclips algorithm is sending players looking to improve here unfortunately.
But this is slow pitch
It sounded like chewing when it connected
want a snickers
Width is a size bruh..
Didn't hit one hr
In baseball the ball doesn't come to the plate flat no wonder this dude plays softball
Mens softball has been destroyed here in Cincinnati, due to the development of super bats. The game is dead.
That's a bummer. I agree, it changes the game significantly and takes away a lot of the fun and strategy.
There are some leagues where you can't hit home runs. It's about ball placement.
Yes the speed of the ball of the super bats ,has made a great competitive sport just to risky for alot of players. They have lives to live away from the game...
terrible background music...ugh
You will impress me when you go back to the early 70s take a wooden bat and hit the same ball used then and hit 400ft bombs right handed and turn around and hit 400ft bombs Left handed . I new a guy .
Is this a joke
Gee turn off that Damm music or whatever you call that racket
Pomegranate
Great idea. May have to try that one in a followup video!
Who the hell is that guy lol wtf
click bait
72 bombs THATS ALL dude go get some more hot wings .
Play baseball 😂
Don’t read the bat on you sholder
Wtf
Like
Bahahalmfao
Thats an awful swing.
Uh boys play baseball or are you a couch?
not impressed
Gotta love all these cats hitting these shaved bats now a days....the days of the 150 200 swings 2 3 X a week BP and actually learning to hit....are gone..now guys weighing 155 with a bat on roids 325 is not setting the bar high...
Lol i agree, I'm 155 but i swing a clean bat, the worst is the roided out guy swinging shavies that already hit the ball 350' with a normal bat
AAAY
69
I don't listen to recreation players, his swing is horrible
Horrible lmao
This was horrible
This is totally worthless.
How about guys just stick to baseball softball is a woman's sport and none of these guys could hit fast pitch softball. The do slow pitch softball because they can't hit anything that comes in fast. So let girls have their sports and go play slow pitch baseball lol.
𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓼
If a guy is still trying to find rec baseball or fastpitch leagues in his 30's+, you're just trying to hang on to your high school dreams. Let it go. Play slow pitch. Your sports dreams are over anyway.
Some of those "women" can pitch a softball over 70mph. I doubt YOU can even hit it.
This isn’t the best video out there.... going oppo has absolutely nothing to do with hitting it deep. And there’s nothing wrong with swaying your bat. Do whatever stance makes you comfortable.