Looking for drills on getting stride foot (heel) down prior to rotation. 50-50 at load has helped as well as keeping hands back. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Often the foot turns when you are trying too hard to turn on the ball.....hips fly out and the foot opens as well. Maybe focusing on going the other way or up the middle will help. Try to hit fungos in a line right into the net in front of you, first the other way then directly ahead of you.
Your hands may be fully back too early. The key is as you are taking a small stride forward, the hands should be simultaneously going back to the load position. The purpose of this is to ensure that the hands are fully back and loaded and the stride foot coming down, occur at the same time. I've read this as being called "seperation" in many books. It is nearly impossible, to get your hips rotated too early if this can be achieved. This worked well for my son.
Player needs T-work. 60 feet away from the net.
20 placed at the knees (1-3 zones), 20 placed at the belt (4-6 zones) and 20 placed across the chest (7-9) zones.
Line drives up the middle. Should not start hitting live pitching til he gets 15-17/out of 20 line drives up the middle with mid-trajection and removes top hand dominace traits.
Another drill is to not stride and bring the heel down from his normal stride position (i.e. Edmonds). Then progess from a 5" stride and go the opposite way taking the ball deep in the zone.
Good luck.
20 placed at the knees (1-3 zones), 20 placed at the belt (4-6 zones) and 20 placed across the chest (7-9) zones.
Line drives up the middle. Should not start hitting live pitching til he gets 15-17/out of 20 line drives up the middle with mid-trajection and removes top hand dominace traits.
Another drill is to not stride and bring the heel down from his normal stride position (i.e. Edmonds). Then progess from a 5" stride and go the opposite way taking the ball deep in the zone.
Good luck.
reggies, I agree. Hitters do just that. They hit! To be a great hitter though, you must live in the cage. Hard work and swinging the bat consistently, not just once a week will put you ahead of most.
Reggie, Rebel...you guys are right...you gotta be a cage animal to hit. But to tell a hitter that is struggling especially with a mechanical problem to just hit and hit and hit more without itentifying and solving his problem may only reinforce the negative rather than cause improvement. Drill work may get boring, but unless you are Roy Hobbs (or a few others)you better spend some of that time with drills or hitting with a purpose.
I think to just hit and hit and hit is a waste of time and worse yet with no feedback it promotes bad habits that show up at game time. I see many players here in chicago that do not have a plan during the winter, they jus take some live bp from their dad or whoever. I think they would be better off to have a plan for the winter, what do they want to work on strenghts an weaknesses. Do you want more power better offspeed hitting, using all fields, work overload-underload for batspeed, tee-work, flips, video feedback, ect.. It is one of the benefits of living in this cold weather is that you can take your game inside and make definite improvements. jmo