Hitting and Hitters Discussion Hitting devices - Training aids

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Starting a thread for any hitting or training tools you use to help with hitting.
Please explain what it is and how you use it.

I have 4 or 5 I will post.

Thanks
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This is a pvc stick. I have lengths of 30, 31, 32, 33. This is used for 1 arm drills.
Easy to handle verses a game bat because of weight.

Hit tennis balls off a tee into a net. Check ball flight to adjust swing.


Straightleg

 

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This is a whip hit. I use it with machine baseballs off a tee.
Helps with handpath.

If you slap you back or dont finish long in your swing, be a good idea to wear a batting helmet.


Straightleg

 

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This is a training tool used by Bustos and Carrier at clinics.
Helps with teaching handpath and were the knob goes in the swing.

Hands inside path of ball, and release sweet part of bat to ball.




Straightleg

 

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I watched a college girl use one.took a full hack and picked herself up off the floor....... smacked herself right in the punkin...dropped like a bucket of slag..... wear a helmet till you get good at it

 

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i think the whip hit and the procut are the best two tools to use right off of the tee

 

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i think the whip hit and the procut are the best two tools to use right off of the tee

I have a 8 and 11 ounce Procut weight, I use in combination with the WhipHit.

I use the Procut weights as I feel the weight should be in the hands first. Many just use an end loaded bat without a proper hand path being taught. The hand path device proves that every time we demonstrate it as the knob of the bat goes towards the ball first....anyone can pull a ball in my opinion as that is what many teach. Can they rotate as needed and drive the ball to the opposite field with power!

Howard

 

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What's a procut?

 

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Pro CutThe pro cut is a MUST buy for the serious hitter!! ... as another great coach's equipment item or go back and view all the hitting aids and ...

www.primetimesportinggoods.com/baseball-equipment/pro-cut.html

 

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I like the Edge Gloves over the Procut. As Howard stated you have the weight on the back side of the hands. Plus a simple hammer ( I use a mallet) can be a very good training tool. I will let hitter explain why with girls.

 

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I like the Edge Gloves over the Procut. As Howard stated you have the weight on the back side of the hands. Plus a simple hammer ( I use a mallet) can be a very good training tool. I will let hitter explain why with girls.

I believe it is neuro muscular skills that most girls lack and there is research on the net to support it. Take something as simple as using a hammer and ask a girl to drive a nail! It is so funny you should film it and post it! We made what I call a nail simulator; car shock mounted vertically and another mounted horizontally to offer resistance to demonstrate how to use a hammer. We show our kids leverage and I ask if I can pick them up with one hand and they say no way coach I weigh 150 pounds! I have a 2x4 and a block of wood and up they go! Then I show them they can lift me only it will take two hands They call it leverage! Most girls do not understand it. Dads do not show them or explain it and they do not show them how a simple $7 dollar hammer works and you the parent buy them a 300 to $400 bat expecting them to know it works.

Learning how to grip the bat and we use a different grip for the top hand and the bottom is where they discover how to release the hammer head and how to release the barrel to the ball with the wrist.

I like the weight to be at the hands for drill work not on the end of the bat or in the middle.

Note: I received an email as to if we hit balls with the hammer or mallet? No and for a reason it puts a visual in the mind of the hitter as the hands are going towards the ball it self. If you have ever seen the RVP instructions where Don uses a 22 mallet/ hammer, I made that for him as demonstration tool. Then I made him and a few other friends an aluminum model with weights that could be attached at the knob (screw in/out). He actually used these with the Tigers and Jim used it with the Padres. The center of the mallet/ hammer was 28 inches long to the knob and had a memorey stick in the bottom hand so it lined up the face of the mallet / hammer with the ball at contact. Using something that short promotes wrist rollers which is why the short hammers/ mallets are used for swing path of the elbows and not actually hitting a ball for soft toss or off a tee.

Howard

 

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This is a pvc stick. I have lengths of 30, 31, 32, 33. This is used for 1 arm drills.
Easy to handle verses a game bat because of weight.

Hit tennis balls off a tee into a net. Check ball flight to adjust swing.


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At the clinic this past weekend I noticed these pvc sticks had sand or rocks or something in them that moved freely in the tube - I am assuming to emphasize proper hand path in the swing so that the weight is at the end of the stick at the moment of impact.

Question: What is the weight of this aggregate material supposed to be?

 

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3 oz of lead shot.

 

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3 oz of lead shot.

We use 3 ounces of number 9 bird shot. BB's are too heavy as to mass, sand did not work nor did glass bead or metal shot peen. There is also a wooden plug 14.5 inches up from the handle so the moment of inertia feels correct at contact.

Howard