Answered: “Helping Get Youth Players To Stay On Plane And Not Dip Their Bodies When They Swing?” In the above video, we’ll be discussing: Relationship between spinal engine and shoulder behavior in healthy effective swing, Causes of unhealthy “dipping” of body in swing, Head stability, Arching low back, Straightening out back leg, Over-rotating upper […]
Throw The Ball Advice To Reader Comment: “Throwing accurately making good throws” This throw the ball video and post has nothing to do with hitting, but at the same time, has everything to do with hitters. In it, we discuss: Mechanics are a big part of this, but this video will not go into […]
Backspin Tee: “I have a question about contact points for hitting inside/outside pitches. What’s your opinion on how you should set up your tee for working both of these locations?” Good question…here’s what we discuss in this Backspin tee video above: How to set up inside tee How to set up middle tee […]
Juan Soto Swing Analysis Reveals How-to Of ‘Line-To-Line’ Directional Force… In this Juan Soto swing analysis, we’ll discuss: Juan Soto swing analysis quick stats, Lower half sets directional force, Hitting it back through tube, and Catapult Loading System…
Like Anthony Rizzo Swing Mechanics, You Too Can Optimize ‘Line-to-Line’ & Launch Angles By “Bending The Knee”? We’ll be chatting about the following 4 things in the above Anthony Rizzo swing mechanics video: Anthony Rizzo quick stat chat, Bent front knee, Sideways back foot, and Spinal engine – pelvis opens, shoulders block… […]
Mookie Betts Swing Analysis: Build Massive Power For Small Sluggers Like Mookie Betts & Trea Turner… What we’ll be contrasting in this Mookie Betts swing analysis compared with Trea Turner: Mookie Betts stats on Fangraphs AND Trea Turner stats on Fangraphs Catapult Loading System principles – CLICK HERE to watch this video post […]
Freddie Freeman Swing Analysis: 109-MPH Ball Exit Speeds, 455+Foot Batted Ball Distances, & 25-Degree Launch Angles Like Freeman AND Ronald Acuna Jr. Here’s a Freddie Freeman swing analysis compare and contrast video between him and Ronald Acuna Jr.: Freddie Freeman (6-foot, 5-inches, 220-pounds) & Ronald Acuna Jr. (6-foot, 180-pounds) offensive stats at BaseballReference.com, Discuss critical “line-to-line” principles […]
Pete Alonso Swing Analysis: Here Is A Method Helping Him To Crush 53 HR’s & 30 2B’s His Rookie Year Here’s what we cover in this Pete Alonso swing analysis: A quick look into his height, weight, line drive, ground-ball, and fly-ball percentages, Look at how many Catapult Loading System principles are mixed into his […]
Why You SHOULD NOT Use “Forearm” Or “Barrel” Cues In This Way… We have a lot to cover in this post, so this is what we’ll be discussing: Here’s the problem… Short anatomy lesson of the low back, and What’s the answer? Most “bad” coaching cues I see out there can work in the right […]
Yordan Alvarez Swing Analysis: Where Should Hitter “Adjustability” Be And How To Get It Before we get to the Yordan Alvarez swing analysis … we MUST … This is our 300th hitting blog post!!!! 😀 Golly, time has flown since we started HittingPerformanceLab.com back in 2014. Since 2013, we’ve had almost 20,000 coaches, instructors, and […]