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Anyone have tips on improving my footwork in the outfield and getting quality reps on reading fly balls. My dad never really played baseball so he is out of the question as far as someone that can help me. I feel the best way is to just immerse myself in the game so that I can see as many fly balls as possible, but to do that I need an instructor in the Dallas area (if you know of one please tell me!). Besides this does anyone have drills or certain things that I can focus on by myself?

I have a problem blocking the ball during the game sometimes. I have been told by my coaches that when I block I jump up instead of dropping straight down. I am good at blocking during drills, its just that during the game I have trouble sometimes. Here is a link of me blocking when I took a lesson a couple months back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho09idIZea4

I recently purchased a powercore 360 to help use my core more to take some stress off my arm, are there any drills to do that will help me besides just regular throwing. (I am a catcher and I only have the hip trainer, not the whole complete package)

Do you have any game film? That will help more than watching your videos because that's where you're messing up. Couple of observations 1. You have heavy feet - I would suggest getting a jump rope and learn to do all the boxing shuffles. Get on a good dot program to work more agility with your feet. Not sure if you want to do this one but I feel that it helped me tremendously was play offensive line for football. All the drills we did for footwork on moving people in tight spaces made me...

Thank you, I will work on my feet. Don't pay attention to the BF video that was taken a year ago, I ha begotten better. I will try to get game video soon and more video of me catching. When you say to not show the pic ther my chest and just show head and shoulders, what do you mean by that? And I did notice that in the lesson the balls weren't hiring my chest, I will get more video of me catching sometime soon hopefully once high school is over. Thanks for the rely and advice.

Yeah you can tell you got better in the second video compared to the first video. One thing I forgot to put that I did see in the BF video is you need to get on top of the throw more. You have a slight drop / sidearm throw. As for the pitcher seeing your chest I tried to find some pictures but Google hates me. Imagine this - in the runners on position you want your butt up higher. Think of sitting on a short stool with the edge of your butt but your bent at the waist. This allows the ump to...

Okay, thank you. I did now change to having two stances, I always did have them, just in the BF visor I hadn't caught in months, I was playing first on varsity my sophomore year, and my throws to second have gotten better, you'll see when I get more video

Agree with coach... you need to work on quick, quick, quick. We work our catchers with rapid fire blocking so they are drop blocking (leaving the ball where the chest protector blocked it to) then quickly pouncing back into ready position for another rep. We'll hold a broom on top of their helmet during drop so they can feel if they have any/too much lift. This rapid fire drill also helps speed them up with retrieving the ball after blocking. I, too, believe the slow feet contribute to the...

Totally agree with Cabbage on everything but him talking about attacking the ball and being athletic when picking it up reminded me of something. What I teach my guys is to do everything he said is to put their nose over the ball. This will force the athletic stance and keep you from taking shortcuts by trying to reach for the ball. Something I tell all my fielders is quick - slow - quick which means quick to the ball - slow to field it - quick to get rid of it. Only way to do this is to be...

Thank you, I have worked out and lifted in the winter so I have gotten Better, will get more footage soon

Thanks for the advice, check out this most recent video that I just uploaded: https://youtu.be/Vuhg5M0bSQg

Check out the video I just uploaded: https://youtu.be/Vuhg5M0bSQg

You look MUCH better in that video than the other ones. I especially like the adjustment you made with your trigger in moving to a more gentle landing / heel lift versus the stomp. Hard to tell but I think you have some power and I like the swing because it looks like you generate some good bat speed. One thing I did notice is that on 1 or 2 swings you hands go too far back on your trigger. Imagine pulling the string back on a bow and arrow and your hands doing that before you commit to the...

Thank you! I am starting my summer season soon, so I will get video then. And as for my swing, I understand what you mean by my hands going too far back, I believe that occurs sometimes because when I was taught by my uncle about my load, he had me over-emphasize my load so I would feel it, I just have to make that adjustment. And I do it for some power, last summer I had a homerun (the only one on the team to hit one).

You can also buddy up with teammates, head to the field and take turns hitting each other reps. You can youtube some good OF drills and mechanics. ABCA stuff is always solid.

Ball over brim of cap you must "open the gate" that means if it is to your left your left foot should drop taking your left shoulder away from home plate. Same move on balls hit to your right except it is right foot dropping. If ball is below brim of cap hold your ground or step forward toward ball. Know your field.... for Corner outfielders the ball will bend toward the line. Center fielders have to play slice and hook. Left hand hitter to left field gap will slice to LF line. In Right...

Here's what I've done to bring new HS outfielders up to speed on fly balls: Set up a two-wheel pitching machine to shoot 300 foot very-high fly balls. It's best to use leather baseballs with torn seams, which randomly hook or slice. (Torn seams, not torn covers.) When our regular BP balls get torn seams, I save them in a bucket for this purpose.

For most of their throwing drills you will need the upper half of the kit. I've been using their kit to do the Jaeger exercises which has worked out well.