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"I understand the Howard "don't move, stay in your zone" theory. I am sure it works. But in doing so, you also must have taught them patience, so that they are able to comfortably wait the LONG extra hundreths for the ball to get to them. I also thing this is grand if you are the hitting instructor AND the coach. But if I am a coach, and I have a down-in-the-order hitter who doesn't make timing adjustments easily, I don't understand why standing physically over the plate trumps cutting 2-3 hundreths off of the pitching time."
We teach our hitters that relaxed hitters are confident hitters. Slow to load and soft to step on a flexed front knee so we can adjust. We also teach how to track the ball and what rhythm, timing momentum and balance means and it starts with tee work from the first lesson and that includes grip.
Additionally, we teach them they can hit 9 balls high and nine balls wide and I feel this makes a huge difference by instilling confidence that they can hit anything or anybody.
You make a good point that if the hitting coach and coach are the same it may make your team stronger in your line up of one through nine.
For about the last 9 to 10 years we have worked with many many coaches who have adopted this philosophy to some extent. A few are Boulders Dad, Hitter 23, SB Family, Crush1, Cubsfan, Cshilt, CGS, Ted, Lester, Kavin (plus their coaches), MEB, Hortman, ifibuilt, Charles Kelly, Scott Morris, Bob Burlew, Gary Davis. I know I may have left some names out....sorry I am getting old.
Recently the 12 year old Static team won the Eastern Nationals and also the 16 year old Buckeye Heat.
These coaches help at clinics and appear to buy into most of what is taught and you must be the judge of their success.
If they were to move a person in the box based on some information they have observed, I would feel confident their players could execute.
I agree there is more to it than just saying move up in the box especially if the coach does not understand what they are doing and the player can not execute the coaches strategy.
Howard
We teach our hitters that relaxed hitters are confident hitters. Slow to load and soft to step on a flexed front knee so we can adjust. We also teach how to track the ball and what rhythm, timing momentum and balance means and it starts with tee work from the first lesson and that includes grip.
Additionally, we teach them they can hit 9 balls high and nine balls wide and I feel this makes a huge difference by instilling confidence that they can hit anything or anybody.
You make a good point that if the hitting coach and coach are the same it may make your team stronger in your line up of one through nine.
For about the last 9 to 10 years we have worked with many many coaches who have adopted this philosophy to some extent. A few are Boulders Dad, Hitter 23, SB Family, Crush1, Cubsfan, Cshilt, CGS, Ted, Lester, Kavin (plus their coaches), MEB, Hortman, ifibuilt, Charles Kelly, Scott Morris, Bob Burlew, Gary Davis. I know I may have left some names out....sorry I am getting old.
Recently the 12 year old Static team won the Eastern Nationals and also the 16 year old Buckeye Heat.
These coaches help at clinics and appear to buy into most of what is taught and you must be the judge of their success.
If they were to move a person in the box based on some information they have observed, I would feel confident their players could execute.
I agree there is more to it than just saying move up in the box especially if the coach does not understand what they are doing and the player can not execute the coaches strategy.
Howard