Answering Baseball Stride Drills Reader Question: “How Important Is Forward Momentum I Know We Must Go Forward But Does It Matter If Stride Is Big Or Small?” “…Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked and, when no one answered,…
11 TBall Drills & Tips, So You Can Be Confident You’re Preparing Players For The Next Level In researching this coaching tball drills post, I did a Google search for “coach tee ball”, and one of the Google pre-populated search terms that came up was “coach tee ball without going insane“. Apparently, there’s a book being sold on Amazon with…
How Your Central Hitting “Operating System” May Be Causing You To Lose Out On Scoring More Runs Recently, I had a conversation with a coach on Facebook who thought the following quote from Josh Donaldson was “horrible advice”: “If you’re 10-years-old and your coach tells you to get on top of the ball…tell him NO.” I’m not getting into the…
Don’t Teach Rearward Barrel Acceleration Without Understanding Pitch Depth First There are a few “gurus” out there promoting a rearward barrel acceleration, which I agree with. However, in teaching young hitters the concept over the past few years, with no disregard for pitch depth, some of my most clean hitters – mechanically – were having challenges getting to the…
I’ve Lied To You for A Couple Years Now…Joey Votto On His 2018 Approach The Josh Donaldson interview last year was awesome, but I think THIS interview with Joey Votto may be better. It doesn’t have the same let-the-beast-out-of-cage feeling that Donaldson contributed, but I feel Votto gives us more of a glimpse into the true art of hitting. What…
How To Hit A Ball 400-Feet By Streamlining 8,000-Pounds Per Square Inch Of Force In ONE Direction Most likely, Little Leaguers and 12-year-old young ladies won’t be driving the ball 400-feet anytime soon. I know that. However, the point of this “Pounding the Nail” drill video post is how to train hitters to direct their swing force optimally. In…
You Don’t Have To Gather 30+ Years Of Coaching To Be An Effective Teacher In the above video, I mentioned the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown. If you’re serious about helping get young athletes better, then you’ll read or listen to that book. The information in it is supported by…
How “Loading & Exploding The Hips” Can Be VERY Dangerous To The Lower Back… We’ll get to the above video, but first let me be clear… I’m not saying the pelvis doesn’t play a role in the swing, because it does. However, I feel this spot reserved in the swing’s sequence of movements is hyper-focused on by a majority of…
The Biggest Lie In Teaching Hitters How To Run Faster & Move Better The purpose of this post: How to make hitters faster, and How to apply David Weck’s “Head Over Foot” technique and “Pulsers” to hitters? Most sprint coaches will teach athletes to get faster by using a “braced core” (instead of a Coiling Core), and “hip…
Get Rid Of A Hitter Dropping Their Hands At Stride Landing Once And For All Using RNT Let me ask you a question: “Does your hitter (or hitters) swing and miss, foul back, or pop-up on pitches up in the zone abnormally often?” The video above may have the fix. One of the pro hitters I work with was…
“Joey I wanted to thank you again. Ryne had a great season hitting. His season BA .320 and league BA .280 (in the TRAC) and that was with a broken bone in his hand half way into the season. He also made City/County, and TRAC honorable mention. Again thank you!!!”
Yeah, that’s what I really like about what I’m learning about the swing and how it works from guys like you – it goes against most of what I was taught during my baseball career but it makes so much sense. I played college and minor league ball and found that much of the coaching I received at those levels actually made me worse. Now that I have been doing lots of research on the swing over the past few years and applying the information to my own swing I keep having moments where I think “Wow, that feels familiar! Like it did before all of the ‘swing pollution'”. I am just thankful for the information that you are putting out there so that I can teach the players I coach with quality information.
I went 2 for 3 today in my game I crushed the ball to right center big time.
“Joey just wanted the let you know that Isaiah (B-town sliders) had a monster hitting weekend last Sunday. Went 4 for 5 in 1 game only needing a homerun for the cycle. Your teaching has helped him drive the play [ball] like the bigger kids in his age group. Thanks again.”
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