The back leg reminds me of the follow through in pitching after the release of the ball. Another hitting coach used to teach taking a step with the rear leg at the end of the swing.
Exactly. He actually teaches that too. Barry Bonds finished his swings that way and Teacherman does too. His swing technique is based off Barry Bonds technique. Babe Ruth finished his swings that way too
two questions as i’m trying to make my swing as perfect as possible, should i be open with my stance to the pitcher prior to the coil as a righty as you often open up as a lefty, not sure if that translates… two, it it possible to show high level consistency with a very wide stance, i like to get low and eliminate head movement but it seems it’s harder to be “rear legged”
So been following teacherman for a bit now and recently started a bad habit of being too far on my back leg. Coaches said I'm literally swinging one legged with the other in the air. Any tips or help? First I'm too far ahead, now I'm too far back. Hitting is so frustrating!
Keep filming your swings. My hitting feels better but it's easily a 4/10 work-in-progress... Sounds like you gotta try one of the drills where he mentions that you want to step forward while coiling back. Might help prevent you from biasing too much on your back leg
@InnsuDontKim Yea, appreciate the reply. It honestly feels like golf up there... eye on the ball, coil, don't crash forward, arms ready, etc. I should turn my brain off and just swing the bat haha
@@jackcarlos Forget this Teacherman nonsense. Stay balanced to where you feel athletic and loose and comfortable. Stay inside the ball with your hands and do a hard snap into and through the ball as you keep your head down Arenado-style all the way. Also, swing the bat on an angle that is perpendicular to the tilt of your spine. This should give you consistent barrels and line drives, instead of this "Stay one legged and snap the bat rearwards while you spin" horseshit.
Honestly, your best teacher will always be the ball. Does it have carry and velocity? Yes, repeat. No, adjust. You probably do 90% right already. So detailing everything will make it worse because you naturally do a lot of things correctly. Backspin and velocity to all fields. Control the inputs like pitch speed and location. If the ball is doing weird stuff like flaring shallow opposite field or top spin, you’re too far back with a loopy swing. Pounding into the ground, too far forward and too quick out of launch.
Challenge Teacherman to a hitting competition off the pitching machine. He’ll blow you out of the cage even at his age. He was hitting better than Aaron Judge when Judge first started taking lessons from him. He was twice Judge’s age. The man knows hitting
True critique, if he were trying to play himself. Everyone's body is going to find some different way to look a bit off while learning something new. If a players head did the exact same thing when attempting to cool around the back leg, it would have to be addressed. When grandpa whips a barrel around and with his head flopping all over, your better off focusing on the weirdly rare quickness you just saw than the weird tilt of the head. Just my two cents. Keeping his head down in this demo is irrelevant.
This is a gem! Thank you @teacherman!!
Would love to see you break down Corbin Carroll's swing!
The back leg reminds me of the follow through in pitching after the release of the ball. Another hitting coach used to teach taking a step with the rear leg at the end of the swing.
Exactly. He actually teaches that too. Barry Bonds finished his swings that way and Teacherman does too. His swing technique is based off Barry Bonds technique. Babe Ruth finished his swings that way too
@@simpleagain1 Barry Bonds didn't do this Teacherman stuff. Not. At. All. FACT.
@@VicInNocal wrong. Yes he did. Barry Bonds is teacherman. Study both their swings
two questions as i’m trying to make my swing as perfect as possible, should i be open with my stance to the pitcher prior to the coil as a righty as you often open up as a lefty, not sure if that translates… two, it it possible to show high level consistency with a very wide stance, i like to get low and eliminate head movement but it seems it’s harder to be “rear legged”
So been following teacherman for a bit now and recently started a bad habit of being too far on my back leg. Coaches said I'm literally swinging one legged with the other in the air. Any tips or help?
First I'm too far ahead, now I'm too far back. Hitting is so frustrating!
Keep filming your swings. My hitting feels better but it's easily a 4/10 work-in-progress... Sounds like you gotta try one of the drills where he mentions that you want to step forward while coiling back. Might help prevent you from biasing too much on your back leg
@InnsuDontKim Yea, appreciate the reply. It honestly feels like golf up there... eye on the ball, coil, don't crash forward, arms ready, etc. I should turn my brain off and just swing the bat haha
@@jackcarlos Forget this Teacherman nonsense. Stay balanced to where you feel athletic and loose and comfortable. Stay inside the ball with your hands and do a hard snap into and through the ball as you keep your head down Arenado-style all the way. Also, swing the bat on an angle that is perpendicular to the tilt of your spine. This should give you consistent barrels and line drives, instead of this "Stay one legged and snap the bat rearwards while you spin" horseshit.
@VicInNocal lol. Love it. I get what he's saying but without the training and personal coaching it's messing things up more than helping
Honestly, your best teacher will always be the ball. Does it have carry and velocity? Yes, repeat. No, adjust. You probably do 90% right already. So detailing everything will make it worse because you naturally do a lot of things correctly.
Backspin and velocity to all fields. Control the inputs like pitch speed and location. If the ball is doing weird stuff like flaring shallow opposite field or top spin, you’re too far back with a loopy swing. Pounding into the ground, too far forward and too quick out of launch.
Awesome stuff
Epiphany!!!!!!!
❤it
Heads pulling off in his demonstration
I like some of these concepts, but he never mentions anything about keeping your eye on the ball...the most important element of hitting.
@@danielhoward4566Maybe its not so given with how much his head pulls out.
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Low level mechanics is the kind of head movement that is being demonstrated here. The swing doesn't matter if you can't see the baseball.
Challenge Teacherman to a hitting competition off the pitching machine. He’ll blow you out of the cage even at his age. He was hitting better than Aaron Judge when Judge first started taking lessons from him. He was twice Judge’s age. The man knows hitting
@@simpleagain1 He won’t blow anyone away with that hack. Head is in the air.
It’s exaggerated but the swing itself is better than 99% of swings out there
@@samvenable9898 Swing is meaningless if you can’t see the baseball. Just a scam.
True critique, if he were trying to play himself. Everyone's body is going to find some different way to look a bit off while learning something new. If a players head did the exact same thing when attempting to cool around the back leg, it would have to be addressed. When grandpa whips a barrel around and with his head flopping all over, your better off focusing on the weirdly rare quickness you just saw than the weird tilt of the head. Just my two cents. Keeping his head down in this demo is irrelevant.
you are terrible😭
Do you know he's Judge's coach?