Have you ever seen this guy hit? If so, you might want to take a page out of his book. The next time you see Bryce Harper at bat, pay close attention to his front foot his stride foot. He shows the entire bottom of his foot to the pitcher. Why is that important? So his can ask the pitcher if his spikes are clean? Simply…hit like Bryce Harper easier said than done!
This is a common problem I see in younger hitters. They start low in a good batting stance, but then pop straight up as they go to swing. This hitting drill will help eliminate that problem. The hitter will learn how to stay low and stay strong when hitting through the baseball.
Because hitting is side to side and rotational, it is important for the batter to have a good stance. This hitting drill is great because it teaches the hitter to keep their knees inside of their feet, which is a MUST for a good batting stance. This hitting drill is great for anyone who gets over their back leg too much and has a problem transferring their energy.
Watch the video! This is not only one of the best baseball hitting drills, but it is also the best bottom hand hitting drill. One handed hitting drills are good to focus on a specific area in your swing and train the hands separately.
But sometimes when performing bottom hand hitting drills the bat can begin to drag. Watch the video to see the little addition to this drill that makes it so great! Why is it called the Flamingo Drill? Got a problem with that?
Creating force off of your backside, enough to propel you into a good front leg, where your back foot comes off the ground. This drill is a little hard to explain in writing, so just watch the video…or just think of yourself as a flamingo! Hammer Time! You probably have to be born pre to understand that reference I just made, but you get the point.
Now stop! Hammer Tire! For this hitting drill all you will need is some rubber bands. You can use the rubber tubing that you use to strengthen your arms. Just tie it around the barrel of your bat and work on feeling the resistance through a good swing plane. Watch the video to learn the placement of the rubber band and how exactly to perform the swings in this hitting drill. This is the 2nd Rubber Band Hitting Drill.
This hitting drill requires a different type of rubber band though. You will need one of those rubber bands that you use to do exercises with it around your ankles. But instead of putting this rubber band around our ankles, we are going to pull it up higher on our legs.
Watch the video so I can explain it and demonstrate it for you. The stop focuses on the load. The drop focuses on the hips. And the fire focuses on the swing. Try this hitting drill out and see if you can get all 3 steps down pat. Watch the video for more. But they both work on the same thing. So I figured you could choose which one you wanted to do depending on the objects you have available.
For this hitting drill you will obviously need a wall and a hitter. Have the hitter stand close to the wall and swing away from it. This hitting drill is not to be confused with the Fence Drill because we are swinging away from the wall in this drill.
In the other one we are swinging in line with the wall or fence. Hopefully you enjoyed these baseball hitting drills. If you learned something new from these videos, please leave a comment below and tell me what it was. I hope you all have fun implementing some of these into your practices. Also, please take advantage of the offer below!
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Just make sure you pass it along to those that need it. Thanks so much and I'll talk to you soon! With less time to react, human beings your players included are always trying to pick up on patterns. Our standard daily infield drills generally consist of glove side, right at them, and backhand. This drill is designed to get rid of that predictability. Move balls from side to side, and find a good groove of making your players move and work to keep the ball in front.
The idea behind this drill is very simple: we want to teach our hitters to hit the ball hard and do damage. While we spend a ton of time working on mechanics and the correct swing movements, this drill is a fun one to see who your team leaders are when it comes to hitting the baseball hard.
When coaching this drill, be sure not to let your hitters allow their mechanics go out the window. To prevent this, you can make the first two rounds game-like swings, and then, in the final round, let your players experiment a little to see if they can improve their number.
For example, let your players incorporate a higher leg kick, or something different in their swing that they think could help their score. For more information on this, check out our post on the swing movement spectrum. If your player has a small leg kick, encourage them to try it at a Level 10 and see what the result is. This keeps practice fun and encourages your hitters to look for small tweaks that can lead to more power, more bat speed and more distance.
After going through a few rounds of BP, this drill is a great change of pace to incorporate competition while stressing the importance of quality at bats with your hitters. For this game, hitters are given one swing to put their best contact on the baseball and are evaluated using the scoresheet below. This is a great drill for breaking up the repetitiveness of standard team batting practice.
It also emphasizes the importance of every swing and at bat. When your hitters are taking multiple hacks in a round of BP, it can be easy to not take their best swing on every pitch — swinging at balls outside of the zone, getting tired and developing bad habits, or swinging without intentional purpose to do damage. By only allowing one swing before rotating to the next player, this drill emphasizes the need to put their best swing on every pitch. The fast pace and competition aspect of it is also a great way to keep your players engaged.
This is a fun drill for youth baseball players, all the way up to your high school teams and older age groups. In the form of a relay race, this drill is great for conditioning at the end of practice and takes your players out of the grind of working on the fundamentals. All you need is two sets of catchers gear and two even teams to compete against each other.
Divide the team into two groups of players. The other team is doing the same thing, but running to first. The main purpose of this drill is conditioning. Anyone that has ever been a catcher knows how tiring it can be running down the line in full gear, so this is a great opportunity to let some of your position players and pitchers in on the fun! This is another great drill for youth baseball players that are still learning the fundamentals of throwing.
Essentially, this is a game of target practice for your players to work on their throwing accuracy and compete against each other to simulate pressure situations. Who in their right mind would come back year after year and have boring baseball practice and never improve their baseball skills?
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