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One of the things that every coach should understand is that hitting is a timing process. It is hard enough for a hitting to just make solid contact with the ball. I often go to the ball park or my students will tell me ?My coach told me to move up in the batters box.? When that happens I cringe. Hitters spend hours trying to develop their timing with the ball. While I understand full well what the coach is trying to accomplish by moving the hitter up in the box. The end result will often be a lot less than their expectation from the hitter. The end result is often a strike out.
One of my new students had a bad weekend this past weekend. She went 0-8. This is not normal in any way for her. As I started to talk with her she told me that she was having timing issues and that the pitchers were slow. Then she told me her coach had her move to the front of the box. She had 8 at bats during the tournament? End result 5 strikeouts.
Coach if your team is facing a slower pitcher or your trying to ?Take the break? out of a pitch by moving the hitter forward in the box what your really doing is changing that timing for the hitters swing to something that they have not ever done when they practice. How many times have you told them to move forward in the box when they practice? Um that?s what I thought. So all those hours you spent teaching them how to hit just got thrown out the window like the baby with the bath water. You changed the timing of their swing by moving them forward. Then you wonder why your team didn?t hit during that whole game and you chew them out for it. When it was your fault they failed.
I teach my hitters that their front foot should be at the two back corners of the plate. From that point on I tell them do not move it from that starting position until you take your stride. This is how we practice this is what we do in the box. If a coach tells them to move up then I tell them do not go any further than the front of the plate. Yes, its that critical to their timing. You only have 4/10 tenths of a second to see the ball and react to it. Every milli second becomes important for the brain to process and react based on visual response, neurological response, and muscular response. This is what they are taught to do in what I call a deep learning process. It becomes ingrained in their timing. This is how you go from being a .200 hitter to a .700 hitter. Its all based on input and timing.
You move your hitter up in the box and they fail. Take a long look in the mirror coach. Its on you..
One of my new students had a bad weekend this past weekend. She went 0-8. This is not normal in any way for her. As I started to talk with her she told me that she was having timing issues and that the pitchers were slow. Then she told me her coach had her move to the front of the box. She had 8 at bats during the tournament? End result 5 strikeouts.
Coach if your team is facing a slower pitcher or your trying to ?Take the break? out of a pitch by moving the hitter forward in the box what your really doing is changing that timing for the hitters swing to something that they have not ever done when they practice. How many times have you told them to move forward in the box when they practice? Um that?s what I thought. So all those hours you spent teaching them how to hit just got thrown out the window like the baby with the bath water. You changed the timing of their swing by moving them forward. Then you wonder why your team didn?t hit during that whole game and you chew them out for it. When it was your fault they failed.
I teach my hitters that their front foot should be at the two back corners of the plate. From that point on I tell them do not move it from that starting position until you take your stride. This is how we practice this is what we do in the box. If a coach tells them to move up then I tell them do not go any further than the front of the plate. Yes, its that critical to their timing. You only have 4/10 tenths of a second to see the ball and react to it. Every milli second becomes important for the brain to process and react based on visual response, neurological response, and muscular response. This is what they are taught to do in what I call a deep learning process. It becomes ingrained in their timing. This is how you go from being a .200 hitter to a .700 hitter. Its all based on input and timing.
You move your hitter up in the box and they fail. Take a long look in the mirror coach. Its on you..
