Hitting and Hitters Discussion Hitting: Batting beam drill

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No. A hitter should make contact with a firm front knee. Right after contact, extension, and follow through, the front knee bends and the back leg fires to first base. Read my previous post a little closer......knee-bends-after-follow-through.......

Interesting, I don't remember seeing you post very often on prior hitting threads. Did you go to a clinic or two, watch some DVD's, learn a little something, and now feel empowered to try some critiquing on ole' Lenski? That's fine, but please learn to read and understand posts first, and fully understand why and why not to use certain tools and devices.

I'm waiting.........

Len

Ole Lenski...

Shayne has been helping us at clinics for three years and is a student of the game and a high school coach (please do not hold that against him) and a travel ball coach and has been going to night school in college.

He is a good guy and gives up a lot of time to help the kids!

Thanks Howard

 

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I could use the new batters edge training tool, plus these mechanics



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aKhB1fWMfQ

Drive the knob to the ground - I like that!!!




Straightleg

 

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If they are like the softball swings the posted on HI no. I cannot open the youtube at work, but I can only guess. I would love to hear what they would say if you posted the balance beam tool. Tom Q would have fun with that one.

 

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Ole Lenski...

Shayne has been helping us at clinics for three years and is a student of the game and a high school coach (please do not hold that against him) and a travel ball coach and has been going to night school in college.

He is a good guy and gives up a lot of time to help the kids!

Thanks Howard

I probably met him and didn't know it. I accused him of being a girl once. Saw the avitar that said GOLDEN KNIGHTS and the user name of LADY..KNIGHTS and thought that he was a lady with the Golden Knights. LOL He took it well.

 

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Boy do I agree, who would buy such a device! Who still teaches squish the bug?

You'd be surprised. Most coaches still teach to swing down and squish the bug.

Len

 

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I apologize for not better understanding your explanation, and would have posted earlier but have been sitting in class since 8:00 this morning with my last class fininshing up at 7:30 this evening, then off to the tail end of my HS practice before getting home at about 10:00 pm this evening. This is usually a little better reading than PSY 551 but I still sometimes get a little confused with the lack of clarity in some posts, so forgive my lack of understanding.

 

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I apologize for not better understanding your explanation, and would have posted earlier but have been sitting in class since 8:00 this morning with my last class fininshing up at 7:30 this evening, then off to the tail end of my HS practice before getting home at about 10:00 pm this evening. This is usually a little better reading than PSY 551 but I still sometimes get a little confused with the lack of clarity in some posts, so forgive my lack of understanding.

Honestly, nobody ever needs to apologize to me and I never hold a grudge. I did giggle at the "lack of clarity" dig, however I do not see where my "knee bends after follow through" post was fuzzy.

Len

 

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Len, you are right. I think I have been to about 14 college softball camps and it still amazes me the lack of understanding of the swing in college. The D1 post and the West coast post bring it to light. I will be glad when the DD makes up her mind then I won't have to set thru one of them. If you go to any of the other hitting sites, baseball and softball , they break down swings via youtube and it is interesting to learn what others view. None of them teach the above, so you wonder, why these coaches don't want to better understand the game. Few college coaches post on those sites, with Joe A. being the only one I know.

 

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Drive the knob to the ground, someone needs to tell him his village called..........their looking for their iddiot

 

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Drive the knob to the ground, someone needs to tell him his village called..........their looking for their iddiot

:lmao::lmao::lmao:

Len

 

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I'm only a fan of the balance beam as one thing in a bag of tricks to help a player who is stepping into the bucket. I don't pull it out first, nor second or third but I do keep it there as needed. Use it briefly then put it away.

 

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I'm only a fan of the balance beam as one thing in a bag of tricks to help a player who is stepping into the bucket. I don't pull it out first, nor second or third but I do keep it there as needed. Use it briefly then put it away.

Do the face the fire drill and you do not need it at all and in my opinion it works faster as it reminds them of throwing and that is done in a straight line.

 

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EDIT: I found a video of it here: http://www.discussfastpitch.com/softball-hitting/2259-face-fire-drill.html

I can't see this video while at work but I will view it when I get home.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
I looked in this thread and found reference to that drill but there wasn't an explanation. I'd love to hear more about it. Is there a thread which explains it?

I'm all about have a crate full of "things" to use to help my daughter and others to either reinforce good mechanics or to trouble-shoot and fix a bad habit.

 

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If you think the head is a camera and the eyes are the lenses of the camera, keep the head from moving too much and step in a way under your head without the body moving too much as we stride forward to toe touch.

Place the tee at the front edge of home plate so it is about 2 to 3 inches in the front and in the middle of home plate.

The hitter starts with the belly button facing towards the pitchers position directly behind home plate as if they were the catcher.

The hitter looks towards the pitchers window of release and steps with the back foot going behind them and to the side and then steps forward with the lead foot towards the pitcher to toe touch.

 

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So facing the fire is that you are in the line if the pitch starting out. You then step into the batters box plant with back foot and then go to front foot plant and make contact. Sort of.

Is the purpose of this to give the batter the feel of using rotational and forward momentum to focus energy to the point of contact?

Sounds similar to walk-throughs on pitching. At least the purpose of it anyways.

 

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Actually the first thing I thought of was Happy Gilmore swinging a golf club.