Love the drills but unfortunate that is not the way that they teach hitting now, everyone is teaching to elevate the baseball and you are teaching the old way which I think is the correct way to hit the ball to all fields. Keep teaching the right way. Best to You⚾️
Carlos Bonilla yeah but the launch angle part is being done by big major leaguers. It works for them because they are so strong. It’s affecting youth players because they think they are mike trout, so they upper cut every pitch. The ball won’t go anywhere and they’re averages will be low. Instead of thinking swinging up, I prefer level, compact. Works for me because I’m not the biggest guy.
@@oufhorhgorhr0tier5gt12 We have a coach for my son for last 3yrs. The coach has long retired from professional baseball. He’s coaching my son to hit down thru the ball. It makes for a much more compact swing, shorter duration swing time, and the swing has the ability to follow breaking pitches. (Not that my son needs this yet the last 3 yrs. Maybe now he will start to see breaking pitches; he’s now in 12U) I do see a lot of other kids struggle with the way most coach teaches batting. The first one that kills me, is coaches telling kids to put the bat down across the entire plate, and set their front foot with toes touching the knob. Their reason is: now your swing can hit pitches over the entire width of the plate. I kid you not. This is what the rec league team’s head coach tells the kids to do. While pitcher’s that young (7U~10U) are not accurate in locating their pitches yet, but any pitch that gets on inside half of strike zone, the batter will be contacting with the throat of their bat. It’ll be a weak grounder and thrown out at first. Another that kills me, is those type of team coach will also tells kids: “flat level swing”. Like, why would they have you hold the bat up vertically, and then drop the barrel backwards towards the ump, and then drive forward on a flat plain swing. Really idiotic. Trying to tell them I’ve hired a private coach for my son on his batting, and telling them to stop “fixing” my son’s batting, is always an interesting conversation. There’s also this golf-like swing that some rec league team coaches like to tell kids. Kids that have adopted this golf-like swing, where they swing the barrel down and then try to contact the ball during the up-swing, I know the perfect spot to pitch them: on the upper edge of the strike zone. Ideally inside-high corner, where the ball will (at best case) hit their bat roughly 4 inches from their hands. With their golf-like swing mechanics, the only thing they’re going to hit with a high pitch is pop-up’s. What I really like about this video: 1) keeping body centered. Rotation supplies the power, not a shift of body position towards front foot. 2) keeping swing compact, like a short whip. 3) staying on inside half of the ball. Even using the seam for visualization. (Makes me wonder if this guest speaker is also a product from the same coach who’s teaching my son right now) 4) hit the ball to where it’s pitched at.
Thank you so much, I do not how to teach my son playing baseball because I do not how to play. I use your video for teaching my son. These are awesome!
I would be cautious with the screen drill as well….you can create some pushy hands. The Oppo L Screen drill is a fantastic warmup drill to implement before every hitting session.
These are good drills. Only thing as I taught hitting for 40 + years is your eyes should never leave the tee. I would always teach staying with the T for 3. Building muscle memory. There's no reason to look when you still. Keeping your head down is Paramount to any hitting drill. Muscle memory.. Muscle memory. Muscle memory is the main purpose of Tee drills. Believe me.
Coach, with muscle memory being a key component to hitting well, wouldn’t you want to train hitters to visualize a pitcher being on the mound, them winding up, and delivering the ball to the tee? If you’re talking about after the swing, I agree a thousand percent. Unfortunately, more and more hitters these days are opening their front foot up to point at the pitcher, which over rotates their hips, making their head fly up (often times, even before contact is made). Like you said; seeing the ball is crucial to hitting success. All the core power, bat speed, and hand-eye coordination in the world won’t help a batter hit an object that they don’t see.
@@BamaFan747 I think you and Hugh are saying basically the same thing. Hugh’s point relates to hitting from a tee on the field. Kids instinctly want to see where their hit went. To see how well they did. That tends to take their eyes off the ball an instant BEFORE contact. Ball on a tee doesn’t move and has no break. If this batting style becomes a habit, that kid will struggle with hitting real pitches. I help out on my son’s team as one of the assistant parent/coach. Most of the kids striking out, that’s the #1 problem: they didn’t track the ball all the way from pitcher’s release to contact point. To have properly seen contact, the batter needs to train their eyes to stay on the contact spot for a small duration after contact.
Coach I have a question! How much do you think I would need to lift in order to swing a 30 oz bat swiftly? I have good hand eye coordination and my swing is pretty good but I can’t hit fast pitches because I swing too slow. Edit: I also lose balance after my swings. Any tips?
Next baseball season imma give it a try , since the baseball coach from my HS told me to play , since i "Have a arm" . Never played in my life , so i've been watching all your recent videos lmao . 1st season prolly won't go well , but i'm not scared of a challenge , or failure .
My problem is pulling off and not staying closed.. I was hitting rlly well the beginning of the year now I’m striking out a lot more and popping the ball straight up... I think I’m dropping my shoulder and very early.. can you help me out?
I practiced knob on belly barrel on fence growing up in Texas. In Alaska now I’m around baseball here amazed not one kid here knows about this drill on hitting inside pitches.
any drills for learning to stay back on the ball? My son hits out front. Rarely ever strikes out but loses alot of power not letting the ball get all the way to him
Great hitting drills! Can you show us the foul ball drill? The greatest hitters in the game could foul many pitches. Ah-Lah Jeff Trout, the only 400 hitter in the family. That’s right T-Bolts, father of Mike.
So this pertains to softball but my daughter pretty much squares up everything and hits a hard line shot right to the center fielder every time. How do we find those alleys?
I sure wish everyone would go away from the juiced up aluminum bats. originally i understood the reasoning, cheaper than replacing broken wooden bats... now the cost of aluminum bat is over 300 dollars and wont last a year, and that's for every player and some players have more than 1, plus too much risk of injuring a pitcher on a come-backer... i can buy plenty good maple, bamboo and ash wooden bats
I thought with the 2017 or 2018 move to “USA Baseball Bat” certification, they reduced the trampoline effect to be more “wood bat like”. Are you talking about USSSA bats that are used in some travel ball leagues?
this will help me with my little league boys, do you have a drill for: Keep Your Eye on The Ball & Watch It Hit The Bat, i want to stop them from turning their heads and not keeping eye on the ball, thank you
After watching this video, I feel like either you are just a natural and you have a listened all your life about hitting and you already know these things or you’re just never going to get it unless you are an instructional league player. And I don’t mean instructional league after high school or college. Either you have a good mechanics and good hand eye coordination or you don’t. I don’t know what age group they are speaking to but I’m guessing five year olds and under
Great drills!..... but he’s showing and telling how to be disconnected from lower half which is not good, it complicates a swing, too much emphasis on hands, and is hard to consistently keep the barrel square through the zone. He’s also excessively closing his shoulder to the ball on the tee to generate, that habit can make it hard to get the barrel to the ball to hit pitchers that throw hard. Human nature is to see and do... do the drills if you like them but for awareness, don’t recommend the swing instructions. Albert Pujols swing mechanics from his 50/50 (when front foot lands and plants), to and through the ball... his barrel gets and stays square throughout the zone with leverage to consistently hit the ball hard... Living Legend
I tried some of these with our 8 year olds tonight and what a difference it made as the practice went on
Thank you man I have trouble casting my hands out on my swing this really helped
Wow, Easton Reflex? I had one of those 20 years ago when I was in little league. What a blast from the past!
instablaster
Remember the Redlines?
These are awesome! Man, Nick Shaw has provided some EXCELLENT videos! Thanks for sharing these John!!
John Hanson you’re welcome John!
The knee drill is awesome you couldn’t have explained it any better
Thank you for this I'll be sure to practice doing this
Blue Nova that’s what I like to hear! 🙌
# 3 is a great drill for guys with big ol’ swings. Really makes you fast. Using a chain link fence works too.
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Love the drills but unfortunate that is not the way that they teach hitting now, everyone is teaching to elevate the baseball and you are teaching the old way which I think is the correct way to hit the ball to all fields. Keep teaching the right way. Best to You⚾️
What are you talking about? no one ever swing down on the ball their is always upwards movement to a swing even if it’s a little
Carlos Bonilla yeah but the launch angle part is being done by big major leaguers. It works for them because they are so strong. It’s affecting youth players because they think they are mike trout, so they upper cut every pitch. The ball won’t go anywhere and they’re averages will be low. Instead of thinking swinging up, I prefer level, compact. Works for me because I’m not the biggest guy.
@@carlostattooz dude people used to swing down on the ball about 40 years ago
@@oufhorhgorhr0tier5gt12
We have a coach for my son for last 3yrs. The coach has long retired from professional baseball. He’s coaching my son to hit down thru the ball. It makes for a much more compact swing, shorter duration swing time, and the swing has the ability to follow breaking pitches. (Not that my son needs this yet the last 3 yrs. Maybe now he will start to see breaking pitches; he’s now in 12U)
I do see a lot of other kids struggle with the way most coach teaches batting.
The first one that kills me, is coaches telling kids to put the bat down across the entire plate, and set their front foot with toes touching the knob.
Their reason is: now your swing can hit pitches over the entire width of the plate.
I kid you not. This is what the rec league team’s head coach tells the kids to do.
While pitcher’s that young (7U~10U) are not accurate in locating their pitches yet, but any pitch that gets on inside half of strike zone, the batter will be contacting with the throat of their bat. It’ll be a weak grounder and thrown out at first.
Another that kills me, is those type of team coach will also tells kids: “flat level swing”.
Like, why would they have you hold the bat up vertically, and then drop the barrel backwards towards the ump, and then drive forward on a flat plain swing. Really idiotic.
Trying to tell them I’ve hired a private coach for my son on his batting, and telling them to stop “fixing” my son’s batting, is always an interesting conversation.
There’s also this golf-like swing that some rec league team coaches like to tell kids. Kids that have adopted this golf-like swing, where they swing the barrel down and then try to contact the ball during the up-swing, I know the perfect spot to pitch them: on the upper edge of the strike zone. Ideally inside-high corner, where the ball will (at best case) hit their bat roughly 4 inches from their hands.
With their golf-like swing mechanics, the only thing they’re going to hit with a high pitch is pop-up’s.
What I really like about this video:
1) keeping body centered. Rotation supplies the power, not a shift of body position towards front foot.
2) keeping swing compact, like a short whip.
3) staying on inside half of the ball. Even using the seam for visualization. (Makes me wonder if this guest speaker is also a product from the same coach who’s teaching my son right now)
4) hit the ball to where it’s pitched at.
This is how they teach the swing now.
Thank you you have made me so much better
Thunder Johnson You made you better! 👊😉
Thank you for the tip I will do this in practices
Mike Klumb that’s what I like to hear 🙌
Great video. Love the collaboration 😍
Haha his swing for the third drill looks like Matt Olson’s. Also keep up this awesome content it’s really been helping me.
4:45 “instant feedback”-Domingo Ayala
Awesome drills! 👌
Awesome tips! Thanks.
Raul Gutierrez thanks
Hey Raul if you like this check out my hitting videos🙏🏼
Great Video! Shaw is great!
Thank you so much,
I do not how to teach my son playing baseball because I do not how to play. I use your video for teaching my son. These are awesome!
These drills are 🔥
Good stuff!
I would be cautious with the screen drill as well….you can create some pushy hands. The Oppo L Screen drill is a fantastic warmup drill to implement before every hitting session.
Let’s listen to this random guy on UA-cam instead of the mlb player. Any idiot can find a flaw in any drill with “coulda woulda” garbage.
These are good drills. Only thing as I taught hitting for 40 + years is your eyes should never leave the tee. I would always teach staying with the T for 3. Building muscle memory. There's no reason to look when you still. Keeping your head down is Paramount to any hitting drill. Muscle memory.. Muscle memory. Muscle memory is the main purpose of Tee drills. Believe me.
Coach, with muscle memory being a key component to hitting well, wouldn’t you want to train hitters to visualize a pitcher being on the mound, them winding up, and delivering the ball to the tee? If you’re talking about after the swing, I agree a thousand percent. Unfortunately, more and more hitters these days are opening their front foot up to point at the pitcher, which over rotates their hips, making their head fly up (often times, even before contact is made). Like you said; seeing the ball is crucial to hitting success. All the core power, bat speed, and hand-eye coordination in the world won’t help a batter hit an object that they don’t see.
@@BamaFan747
I think you and Hugh are saying basically the same thing.
Hugh’s point relates to hitting from a tee on the field.
Kids instinctly want to see where their hit went. To see how well they did. That tends to take their eyes off the ball an instant BEFORE contact.
Ball on a tee doesn’t move and has no break.
If this batting style becomes a habit, that kid will struggle with hitting real pitches.
I help out on my son’s team as one of the assistant parent/coach. Most of the kids striking out, that’s the #1 problem: they didn’t track the ball all the way from pitcher’s release to contact point.
To have properly seen contact, the batter needs to train their eyes to stay on the contact spot for a small duration after contact.
Thanks! How many swings for each drill? How many rounds?
I loved the drills
Chris Smith 🙌
Good philosophy to hit up the middle ! Early or late !
Your tips is very helpful
SkellyMage YT Glad they help
for a second i tho it showed 21 mil views cause whenever theirs something like this about baseball or football but especially baseball its very cool
cortezmauricio56 we got a shot! It came out the gate hot and did 21K in less than 2 days. Fastest grower on this channel ever so far!
Nice profile picture.
Nice . That's perfection
James Torres 🙌
I’ll be sure to do this
Dark Zero. Let me know how it goes 🙌
Do you have any tips to help stay compact and not let your body go up while hitting
thatboy dre 3 of these 4 drills are great for that
Coach I have a question! How much do you think I would need to lift in order to swing a 30 oz bat swiftly? I have good hand eye coordination and my swing is pretty good but I can’t hit fast pitches because I swing too slow.
Edit: I also lose balance after my swings. Any tips?
Bular Work on your core. How old are you?
I have this problem too I’m 14 and would like to have the 33” instead of 31”
YouGoProBaseball 15
YouGoProBaseball thank you coach
Bular you definitely need a strong core and a strong and mobile body. Are you doing any baseball specific workouts currently?
Next baseball season imma give it a try , since the baseball coach from my HS told me to play , since i "Have a arm" . Never played in my life , so i've been watching all your recent videos lmao . 1st season prolly won't go well , but i'm not scared of a challenge , or failure .
My problem is pulling off and not staying closed.. I was hitting rlly well the beginning of the year now I’m striking out a lot more and popping the ball straight up... I think I’m dropping my shoulder and very early.. can you help me out?
yes I want to see more power drills
I practiced knob on belly barrel on fence growing up in Texas. In Alaska now I’m around baseball here amazed not one kid here knows about this drill on hitting inside pitches.
any drills for learning to stay back on the ball? My son hits out front. Rarely ever strikes out but loses alot of power not letting the ball get all the way to him
David Barnes Yes, check these out: ua-cam.com/video/Ax1iuZ2MVLs/v-deo.html
I'm so happy🎉
Great hitting drills! Can you show us the foul ball drill? The greatest hitters in the game could foul many pitches. Ah-Lah Jeff Trout, the only 400 hitter in the family. That’s right T-Bolts, father of Mike.
So this pertains to softball but my daughter pretty much squares up everything and hits a hard line shot right to the center fielder every time. How do we find those alleys?
Can you make more pitching videos
Jonas Cook sure can! I’ll post one tomorrow!
@@YouGoPro thanks man
Jonas Cook you’re welcome
Wow, I wish you lived in Ca so my kid could train with you.
yes!
At 14 should I still be using a drop 10 I’m a bigger kid though
Good videos this year brother...later
Classically Modern Thanks 🙌
5:36 make sure you keep your shoulder in, don’t twist your whole top half around. I did this drill wrong and it really screwed up my swing
I sure wish everyone would go away from the juiced up aluminum bats.
originally i understood the reasoning, cheaper than replacing broken wooden bats... now the cost of aluminum bat is over 300 dollars and wont last a year, and that's for every player and some players have more than 1, plus too much risk of injuring a pitcher on a come-backer... i can buy plenty good maple, bamboo and ash wooden bats
I thought with the 2017 or 2018 move to “USA Baseball Bat” certification, they reduced the trampoline effect to be more “wood bat like”.
Are you talking about USSSA bats that are used in some travel ball leagues?
this will help me with my little league boys, do you have a drill for: Keep Your Eye on The Ball & Watch It Hit The Bat, i want to stop them from turning their heads and not keeping eye on the ball, thank you
Mark the balls with a colored spot and make them tell you the color before they swing .
How much is the baseball kit
I got a video to show you and get your feedback how can I share my video with you I'm a softball player
4:52 screen drill for casting
I’ve watched this video so many time I finally realized I’m rising on low pitches
I was wondering why this video has over 100,000 views! Now I know it’s thatboydre! 👊😉
Oh he packing
Swinging inside corner going up the middle the tee was put back in the middle 😕🤔
👍🏼.....!
5:27 LOL voice crack
After watching this video, I feel like either you are just a natural and you have a listened all your life about hitting and you already know these things or you’re just never going to get it unless you are an instructional league player. And I don’t mean instructional league after high school or college. Either you have a good mechanics and good hand eye coordination or you don’t. I don’t know what age group they are speaking to but I’m guessing five year olds and under
Great drills!..... but he’s showing and telling how to be disconnected from lower half which is not good, it complicates a swing, too much emphasis on hands, and is hard to consistently keep the barrel square through the zone. He’s also excessively closing his shoulder to the ball on the tee to generate, that habit can make it hard to get the barrel to the ball to hit pitchers that throw hard. Human nature is to see and do... do the drills if you like them but for awareness, don’t recommend the swing instructions. Albert Pujols swing mechanics from his 50/50 (when front foot lands and plants), to and through the ball... his barrel gets and stays square throughout the zone with leverage to consistently hit the ball hard... Living Legend
Need help go to Domingo Ayala “Da Mexican Blood”
____________lol You makin shit up as you go.
Should I grab my junk before I bat too?
This is great content 👌🏼 I have some hitting videos as well, check it out 🙏🏼
Nope. Anything involving a tee is just teaching bad technique.
Fly ingDutch 🤔
It's the best way to get better technique. Your comment is clueless.
Every pro level guy uses tees😂😂
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I hit .400 in high school 45 years ago and never knew any of this. Why aren't hitters any better today at this level?