I’m always interested in new a creative hitting methods, drills, and tools. Today, for our training equipment segment, we will look at the hitting disk. The hitting disk accomplishes all the qualities I look for in a piece of training equipment; the hitting disk is cheap, effective, and creative. You can get three disks for $24.95, but you could essentially buy a pool Frisbee at Wal-Mart for three … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
Improve your youths reading ability and baseball skill simultaneously
One way that I have always said a youth baseball player can improve their game is by reading about the game. However, as we, and most parents of young players know, it is difficult to motivate adolescents to read. But let me recommend a way to get your young player reading regularly about the game they love. BaseballCamps.com provides a blog in which they provide a piece of advice about baseball … [Read more...]
Linear vs. Rotational hitting
As promised from yesterday we will discuss the difference between a linear and a rotational hitter. The purpose of this distinction is to come to a conclusion about what type of a hitter your daughter/son is, and what drills best fit their type of swing. When you have a rotational hitter and try to do a drill that is meant for a linear hitter, you are trying to fit a square peg in a round whole. … [Read more...]
Lessons for linear hitters
I found a hitting exercise that I though would be helpful for all of our readers, regardless of their age. Then I remembered that we have not discussed the difference between a linear hitter and a rotational hitter. And, while we will not discuss the difference between a linear and a rotational hitter today, we will discuss this divergence in school of thought tomorrow, our blog for today—January … [Read more...]
Baseball hitting myths
Today I want to defunct two common practices that coaches try to instill in hitters, as far as technique is concerned. They are connected in the way that they take place in the lower half of the body, and in the way that one generates the other. Let’s look at the load and the action of the back foot during the swing. Most coaches suggest a short and concise stride on the front foot. This swing is … [Read more...]
Best BBCOR Bats of 2013 to get the most bang for your buck
This week’s segment on advanced/high school hitters will focus on 2013 BBCOR aluminum bats. How does one know if they are getting a good value on a bat that can run upwards of $400? Wouldn’t you like some none biased information to base you decision on? With a lot of money on the line, and little information to base you decision on, I have decided to lend a helping hand to out readers. There are … [Read more...]
Old school instruments can help new age practice
AnnexBaseballBlog.com has brought up an age-old training method that will easily improve your young hitters mechanics. It’s simple; swing a wooden bat. As discussed in the article—The Importance Of Youth Hitting With A Wooden Bat—there are several mechanical advantages that this can provide your young hitter. A wood bat, as opposed to an aluminum bat that has its weight artificially and evenly … [Read more...]
Don’t get tricked when you buy baseball equipment
Many websites devoted to non-partisan baseball equipment reviews can afford to be non-partisan, because they don’t care if you buy a particular brand, as long as you buy a product from their website. The web is littered with baseball equipment reviews but you would be hard pressed to call any of them unbiased. The majority of the reviews you will see online claim that each product is the best, … [Read more...]
Simple swing drill to succinctly suppress silly mechanics
For today—January 21, 2013—we will discuss a training drill that I discovered on BeABetterHitter.com. For a hitting drill to be “good” it must do several things; it must be simple, creative, and make you practice your technique. The Grad-U-Weighted Bats Drill from BeABetterHitter.com has all three of these qualities. While the drill is simple because it allows you the practice hitting on your … [Read more...]
The jump from high school to college baseball
Our blog for advanced hitters this week will discuss the transition from high school to college baseball, and, for the lucky few, the jump from high school to pro-baseball. My opinion, when it comes to high school baseball players that want to play college baseball, is that it comes down to two factors: 1) Do you want to play baseball bad enough? 2) Are you a hard worker? Those two factors … [Read more...]