Need a Drill

Dipping your back shoulder would indicate posture (spine angle) issues. Your bat and shoulders should be as close to parrell as possible at contact which is accomplished by adjusting posture to set swing path, not dipping the back shoulder.



Use a Tee to work on posture by moving the ball around in the various zones...Good idea to also video tape yourself (front view) to review later and see that you are making the proper posture adjusments to location.

This is just one suggestion that may help.

p.s. curious to know where your most of your weight is at contact i.e. against your front side or more on your back side?

My weights` is mostly on the backside of my body

Let me rephrase this,so people dont think im the hunchback of notre dame here
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I drop my hands which causes an uppercut in my swing

I Video Tape my games sometimes,but I never have like a round of batting practice.Thats a good idea,NYdad

thanks for your input

My weights` is mostly on the backside of my body

Backside as on back leg/foot...If so, you may be lacking weight shift momentum and simply rotating (spinning) and hitting from your heels. Ideally your weight should be suspended against your front side/leg at contact which should bring that rear foot up to it's toe.

I drop my hands which causes an uppercut in my swing

It's quite common...work on adjusting your posture to set swing path as it sounds like you may be maintaining the same spine angle on all swings and making the adjustment with your hands.

Perhaps others will chime in with some advice as well. Good luck.

Get an old bat, a tee and an old wooden chair which is just below your chest (you don't want it too tall or too short).

Take the chair and put it behind the tee about 2 feet (you will need to work with this and adjust accordingly). Then start swinging.

You get immediate feedback using this drill. A phrase we use is land the plane when we are talking about hitting. It's the path the barrell takes to reach the hitting zone. If you land the plane then the ball comes off the tee hard and straight. If the ball comes off the tee and hits the ground just in front then you are crashing the plane and have too much of the barrell coming straight down. If you hit the chair then your angle is too flat and need to come up.

If you do the drill correctly you will just barely miss the tee. That is why you need to adjust the chair to find where you need it. Do that and look for how the ball comes off the tee and that should correct your problem.

if your head drops over the plate and stays there after contact, it will get rid of the dip

Try the Muhl tech advanced skills tee . . . I started using them in college and believe that it is one of the best training tools around.

Some good thoughts scattered

Hinging the rear knee with weight still on it causes the back shoulder to drop most of the time. The rear heel popping straight up doesn't indicate weight shift. It indicates hip turn. The rear toe dragging as the heel pops up would be weight shift and hip turn.

On a very good diagonal swing path the back shoulder will rotate through and appear to be dropping.

At launch the Center of gravity is not at your zipper anymore. You have a bat behind you, two arms, a the pull force called inertia at heel drop. So you NEW center is somewhere around the lead belt buckle front hip. You must shift "head over belly button" maintaining a vertical axis to the new c.o.g BEFORE you tilt. You tilt off the new c.o.g not the loaded back side

Your shifting to that position( as your loading the barrel), your opening of your hip into foot plant should sync with the upper body move of flattening the bat into plane or slotting of the rear elbow and shoulder tilt.

If you tilt your shoulder( launch) before establishing your new c.o.g. your screwed.

The chair drill is a weight shift drill IMHO. The problem for me with it is that the barrel drops below the hands on diagonal swings and most swings. It( the chair drill) is helpful for some to time the weight shift/ launch but not realistic on low ball positions where you must still time your weight shift/ launch but cannot come into that landing position on that plane.

Good point swingbuster. I do this drill quite a bit but I also have other drills set up to work on the low pitch.

The way I look at it no one drill can work on all aspects of the swing and pitch location. I try to come up with as many drill as possible to find the holes in swings.

I hope it's right and so far so good. My guys have always been able to mash. Last year I had a homerun out of all 9 positions in the order and 11 guys hit at least one homerun.

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Last year I had a homerun out of all 9 positions in the order and 11 guys hit at least one homerun.

That is fantastic...we had 7 and I was amazed at that

thanks for all the help everyone.Im still working hard to break this old habit

And I would also highly reccomend stretch bands.It has helped me stay short and compact towards the ball

The craziest thing swingbuster is that I would not have been surprised if we didn't hit any last year. We just didn't have kids with the masher body type. My biggest guy was my catcher and he only hit one. The team leader was 5'11 and weighed about 170 lbs. He had 5 I think off the top of my head.

I think my guys just really bought into the philosophy I teach. Attack fastballs early in the count and know the zone.

When I first came to this school the kids would always take the first strike no matter what. I had the hardest time breaking that habit. They thought I was teaching swing at anything but if you really do attack fastballs early, lay off the junk until have to and know the zone your walk total will go way up. Your average high school pitcher cannot get his junk over consistently for strikes. So if he can't throw it then don't swing at it. So what if he gets a strike on the first pitch with a curve - I want him to prove he can bring two more to get me out. I don't think he can and neither does he. So he will then bring a fastball and if it's in the zone attack it.

Just my opinion.