In order to improve at anything in life, we must look to improve our flaws. When it comes to hitting, we have the advantage of being able to look towards others when we want to improve our errors. Because, if this is the first time we have encountered a particular problem, the odds are that someone else has identified and corrected our mistakes. Matt Schilling is the Director of On-Field … [Read more...]
Don’t have a lot of time to practice in the offseason? Here’s the answer.
For now we will skip the weekly drills segment of our blog, that was supposed to take place on Tuesday, because of the great articles I found for youth hitting yesterday, if you have not read it check it out, and the relevant blog that I found for today by David Keesee. Keesee, who has been referred to on this blog before, recently wrote a blog entitled Baseball Training Strategy and the Effect of … [Read more...]
Simple Video with Powerful Youth Baseball Drills
This video highlights what they call the "straight jacket drill". I have never heard it called that before, but I like the drill and have used it numerous times with great success. There is also a nice brief description of the desired "palm up, palm down" position at contact. Lastly a good variation of the power hand drill. Nice video. … [Read more...]