Here's a cool video montage showing the Insider Bat in action. Get ready to get in Attack Mode! http://youtu.be/mk6WBwcia8I … [Read more...]
Keep your hitter in the batter box and off the bench.
Injuries are a part of every sport, especially baseball. But, as a parent of a young baseball player, it is difficult to know when to push your child and when to say enough is enough, you’re too hurt to play. In order to tell the difference between an injury that is merely superficial, and one that could be detrimental to the long-term health of our son or daughter, we must become educated. Safety … [Read more...]
High school baseball tryout advice
Because we focused on how to prepare for tryouts for youth hitters yesterday, we will focus on how to make a team for high school hitters today. HS Baseball Web is a great forum and place to find articles about the current status of high school baseball around the country. Today, I found an article, more of a checklist really, for high school players about how to make their high school … [Read more...]
The Importance of the Stride: Continued
Although the stride in a swing can lead to multiple problems that will counteract the productivity of your swing, the stride is essential in the generating power as a hitter. Many coaches have attempted to take the stride out of swings, and with the old BESR bat, which had a crazy amount of pop, that was ok. With the new BBCOR bats, however, hitters need to generate all the power and energy in … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Three steps to improve your youth hitter’s confidence
This week’s edition of youth hitting will look at a drill devoted to the improvement of your little leaguers confidence. Confidence is important at every age, but especially at your child’s adolescence when every strikeout, groundout, or pop out could mean the end of the world in his or her eyes. Mark Muto in Youth baseball: Great batting drills has developed a drill with three progressions that … [Read more...]
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