Hitting and Hitters Discussion COACHES POLL : Hitting Hitting and more Hitting

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how much time will you spend on hitting broken down like this...

what % of your total hitting this winter will be T work?
what % will be live pitching?
what % will be pitching machines?
what % will be clinics or videos?
What % will be other - please specify...

feel free to elaborate

 

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With my oldest:
40% T work - various drills- high tee, low, inside, outside, front hand back hand etc.
30% pitching machine drills (bunt, slap, and tracking drills, opposite field hitting)
30% front toss/live hitting (tcb balls, etc)

Plus we have her hit live off pitcher as much as possible.

 

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With my oldest:
40% T work - various drills- high tee, low, inside, outside, front hand back hand etc.
30% pitching machine drills (bunt, slap, and tracking drills, opposite field hitting)
30% front toss/live hitting (tcb balls, etc)

Plus we have her hit live off pitcher as much as possible.

Ditto

 

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If you want a really strong hitting team they need to be working with a private instructor once a week. This is where they can get that fine tuning on their mechanics. They will also need to do T work at home on their own. T work is critical in building proper mechanics. In my DD's private instruction it brakes down something like this.

80% T work
10% Live pitching
10% pitching machine

With her instructor the pitching machine work is sometimes a two wheel machine throwing certain pitches, a single wheel machine working certain locations, and sometimes both together set at different speeds to work on the change-up. He almost always does T work first in the lesson.

I remember her first lesson and the first thing he told her was she would not go in the cage for possibly a few months. Her mechanics had to come first. Almost 3 yrs later and she is always receiving compliments on her hitting mechanics.

Hope this helps!!

 

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70 0/0 T work
20 0/0 Front toss
10 0/0 Machine

I think proper T work is the key to becoming a better hitter, and a pitching machine is a lazy coaches answer.

We offer hitting lessons with a pro. hitting coach as a organization but due not require it.

 

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funny that no one put video in there, I feel that adding video helps the athletes progression, we video at least 40% of our hitting practice.

 

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funny that no one put video in there, I feel that adding video helps the athletes progression, we video at least 40% of our hitting practice.

Awesome

 

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funny that no one put video in there, I feel that adding video helps the athletes progression, we video at least 40% of our hitting practice.

No matter how much you explain what needs corrected, some girls will just not get it until they can see themselves and what they are doing. It has to be part of the practice, even if it is not at every session.

 

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In addition to the video which we are doing more of.

My percentages are in total number of pitches, not time.

70% Tee working all kinds of stuff
15% Me pitching to her from various distances, speeds, working pitch recognition, hitting the change
15% Working front toss on zone recognition and all the other stuff you can do there.

Live pitching as often as we can get it.

 

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With my oldest:
40% T work - various drills- high tee, low, inside, outside, front hand back hand etc.
30% pitching machine drills (bunt, slap, and tracking drills, opposite field hitting)
30% front toss/live hitting (tcb balls, etc)

Plus we have her hit live off pitcher as much as possible.

oldest meaning what age?

 

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Fantastic thread. I cant tell you the dd,s schedule in college but I can give you an idea of what i put my kids thru each and every week.

Measure swing speed to start to get a base line of where they are. Normally done at the beginning and then about once a month there after.

Start from the ground up working on balance first, proper feet placement, going to weight shift, flexed knee at toe touch hip rotation and strong front side at contact.

Grip of bat, hand location at ready position. Discuss front elbow drive and rear elbow slotting. Where contact should be made down the middle of the plate, along with turn and tilt to getting short behind the ball. Then extension and finish'

Do drill that emphasize both front and rear elbow so they can be felt and understood. Ending with front and back one hand drills off the tee.


Making sure we drive the ball center from middle of the plate. No pulls or out side until center is found and proper hand path to center is understood. Once we can go center we can go anywhere.

Actual application of mechanics off the tee with both hands learning to hit the ball center then from the center position learning to hit inside outside and opposite field from center of tee. It shows how important weight shift and good first move to ball is and the students gets a first hand knowledge of how the principal works.

Do the 2 tee drill, driving the first ball thru the center of the second ball then outside then inside Placing the tee in the actual position inside, outside and middle spots and work on finish and drive of balls to their respective areas.

Start the cage drills once the basics of the mechanics have been learned and the hand path is soild with muscle memory with the pitching machine learning the barry bonds drill ( moving forward after each contact ) and also the babe ruth drill ( calling the shots for the batter the ball pitched down the middle of the plate they either hit it center, outside or pull )

Whip hit, Fine tuning hand path. Then doing 2 tee drill with whip hit.

Side toss then front toss with whip hit. Going from softballs all the down to golf ball sized wiffle balls.

Its alot of work and my kids are expected to do their homework on their own time. Pitchers spend 3 to 4 days a week working in my opinion If we want to be better than the pitchers we face we must out work them.

After the first of the year I will start using RVP as a normal part of my students hitting. And also using Lite Flight softballs for the whip hit just to make their lives interesting lol.
I apologize for the long winded explanation of what we do........


Tim

 

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Measure swing speed to start to get a base line of where they are. Normally done at the beginning and then about once a month there after.

thats awesome Tim - please give some more details about how to measure swing speed with comparisons to ages and expected speeds, importance of speed how to improve etc...

 

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I use the swing speed radar that the big guy introduced me to a few years back. It's a doppler radar unit that is placed behind the hitter the swing brings it thru the radar zone. As far as speed per age alot has to do with individual mechanics of each hitter.

Tim

 

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Before our daughter started up in her high school hitting/conditioning days, twice a week, she would be home and her dad would do the T first, then he would move to soft toss to the side with a regular softball, then he would switch to a tennis ball, baseball, back to a softball then he would throw up a TCB and repeat a few times, since you don't want to over do with the TCBs. Then they work on inside/outside, high and low. This usually can go anywhere from 75 to a little over a 100 balls. During all the while, he's correcting, if needed, her stance, and pivoting her toe. Her work with her dad was pretty much every day, now with hitting/conditioning, it's usually twice during the week due to pitching lesson and having league games on the weekends. The one drill she loves and hasn't seen it yet this year at her school is the Barry Bond's Drill.

 

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its all about hiting isnt it? lol

 

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rdelawder was kind enough to post this on another thread - this link shows bat swing speeds and also exit velocities, among other things:

Here is the most recent numbers recorded at a On Deck camp hosted in Arizona.
Red is 2013's
Blue is 2014's
Gray is 2015's

http://www.ondecksoftball.net/uploads/pages/ODM Results - PHX.pdf