I love the energy of this video!!! Lol. Matt looks like he just heard someone say this 17 seconds ago and was like "Press record! I got something I gotta get off my chest!" Great video!
Since I can't figure out how to comment in general, this video will suffice. I've spent a week digesting as many of your videos as I can. I have watched other people's tips, hints, and tricks. And many of them are incredible. Your videos deliver things I can immediately take to my team and have full belief in the fact that they can understand the message....and implement the concepts. Invaluable. I use that word rarely. Your videos are invaluable to me. Thank you. Keep them coming.
In addition to ur great thoughts on useless coaching tips…I caught one specific I want to look for in videos of hitters…ie…bat should travel near the back shoulder if the hitters hands are leading the swing(upper body)…u taught in a recent video that the upper hand on the bat should turn upwards to start the forward movement after the ‘punch back’ with the arms. Not ur words but I practice this in the cage….I added the hand turning up rather than thinking of the arms and batted .850 in my last tourney(slow pitch)…70+ women….thank u for helping me and so many other women play good fundamental softball👏🏼👏🏾👏🏼
WOW!!! This is exactly what my daughter is doing. I have heard her coaches yelling both those phrases, "let it get deep", "let it travel". Or move back in the box, turn you rbody because she is pulling EVERYTHING TO LEFT FIELD. So she is getting the barrel around the ball. I've heard some say stop casting as well.
The biggest misconception in softball is get your foot down early and extension. It forces them to push and cast simultaneously which we all know is a no no. Unless you want to slap. A small girl must control her weight and focus on rotation, launch quickness to hit the ball to the fence. Good video!!
Guilty! When my players hit weak grounders to the pull side, because they’ve been always told to hit the ball “out front”, I tell them to let the outside pitch travel, and stay inside the ball. I reinforce the concept by setting the tee farther back than I do on the inside of the plate when we are working on pulling the ball and not getting jammed. It seems to work! The problem with coaches is they say things to young hitters, and assume the kid understands how to execute what they are being told to do. Letting the ball “travel” is an act, not a technique. If you want the child to execute the act, they must be taught the technique, so when you say it, he/she knows what you are talking about, and the mechanics behind it.
Then you should also hate the tip, “hit the ball out front”! Usually when I hear it or say it, it’s in relation to the pitch away. Often it comes from trying to hit it, out in front! I’m not say that what you are saying is wrong, but that sometimes they actually aren’t letting the ball get deep enough to get inside the ball.
Come on Man. I Love your stuff but you are way off here on your intro. When hitting coaches say, " let it travel" it refers to outside pitches. We want to drive the ball oppo. You are making it sound like it is only for pull hitters or players hitting outside of the ball (which is incorrect). With the three contact points (inside, middle, away) and in this case the deepest one for outside pitches. If I did have a straight pull hitter, never would I say let it travel. I say, " get the Barrell out there and hit it out front. that's what they do. Hit it where its pitched. and for outside balls "let it travel." Not drinking your kool-aid. I do love most of your concepts. But you are off here. At the 4:04 mark, you get to what this video is really about, staying inside the ball. Staying inside the ball is the key and letting it travel on outside pitches compliments that.
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I love the energy of this video!!! Lol. Matt looks like he just heard someone say this 17 seconds ago and was like "Press record! I got something I gotta get off my chest!" Great video!
Since I can't figure out how to comment in general, this video will suffice.
I've spent a week digesting as many of your videos as I can. I have watched other people's tips, hints, and tricks. And many of them are incredible. Your videos deliver things I can immediately take to my team and have full belief in the fact that they can understand the message....and implement the concepts. Invaluable. I use that word rarely. Your videos are invaluable to me. Thank you. Keep them coming.
In addition to ur great thoughts on useless coaching tips…I caught one specific I want to look for in videos of hitters…ie…bat should travel near the back shoulder if the hitters hands are leading the swing(upper body)…u taught in a recent video that the upper hand on the bat should turn upwards to start the forward movement after the ‘punch back’ with the arms. Not ur words but I practice this in the cage….I added the hand turning up rather than thinking of the arms and batted .850 in my last tourney(slow pitch)…70+ women….thank u for helping me and so many other women play good fundamental softball👏🏼👏🏾👏🏼
Thank you! My daughter is having this problem
WOW!!! This is exactly what my daughter is doing. I have heard her coaches yelling both those phrases, "let it get deep", "let it travel". Or move back in the box, turn you rbody because she is pulling EVERYTHING TO LEFT FIELD.
So she is getting the barrel around the ball. I've heard some say stop casting as well.
The biggest misconception in softball is get your foot down early and extension.
It forces them to push and cast simultaneously which we all know is a no no. Unless you want to slap.
A small girl must control her weight and focus on rotation, launch quickness to hit the ball to the fence.
Good video!!
Guilty! When my players hit weak grounders to the pull side, because they’ve been always told to hit the ball “out front”, I tell them to let the outside pitch travel, and stay inside the ball. I reinforce the concept by setting the tee farther back than I do on the inside of the plate when we are working on pulling the ball and not getting jammed. It seems to work!
The problem with coaches is they say things to young hitters, and assume the kid understands how to execute what they are being told to do. Letting the ball “travel” is an act, not a technique. If you want the child to execute the act, they must be taught the technique, so when you say it, he/she knows what you are talking about, and the mechanics behind it.
Great videos! Really helped me learn how to play softball and not entirely suck 😂
Then you should also hate the tip, “hit the ball out front”! Usually when I hear it or say it, it’s in relation to the pitch away. Often it comes from trying to hit it, out in front! I’m not say that what you are saying is wrong, but that sometimes they actually aren’t letting the ball get deep enough to get inside the ball.
Come on Man. I Love your stuff but you are way off here on your intro. When hitting coaches say, " let it travel" it refers to outside pitches. We want to drive the ball oppo. You are making it sound like it is only for pull hitters or players hitting outside of the ball (which is incorrect). With the three contact points (inside, middle, away) and in this case the deepest one for outside pitches. If I did have a straight pull hitter, never would I say let it travel. I say, " get the Barrell out there and hit it out front. that's what they do. Hit it where its pitched. and for outside balls "let it travel." Not drinking your kool-aid. I do love most of your concepts. But you are off here. At the 4:04 mark, you get to what this video is really about, staying inside the ball. Staying inside the ball is the key and letting it travel on outside pitches compliments that.