Discover how to stop dropping the hands in baseball and softball batting. Learn our best fix a looping, late swing, and keep hands up hitting drill in 2023.
Get Rid Of A Hitter Dropping Their Hands At Stride Landing Once And For All Using RNT Hitting Softball Drills
Heads up: The RNT drill above fixes hands drop that happens during the load phase — before foot strike, before the swing even starts. If you run this drill and the barrel is still dropping through the contact zone, your hitter has a separate fault: Racing Back Elbow Bat Drag, where the back elbow races past the hands during the swing itself. That’s a swing-phase problem, and bands can’t address it. See the full breakdown of both root causes — and the drill for each →
Let me ask you a hitting softball drills question:
“Does your hitter (or hitters) swing and miss, foul back, or pop-up on pitches up in the zone abnormally often?”
The hitting softball drills video above may have the fix. One of the pro hitters I work with was told by his team’s hitting coach that he must be able to “catch-up” to pitches elevated in the zone. And I agree. Weak spots, or holes in the hitting zone, can and will be used by pitchers as a weapon. I tell my hitters to turn a pitcher’s weapon against them.
The challenge I find watching slow motion swing video, with some hitters, is there hands drop (towards the waist) at stride landing 2-4 frames from the back armpit line. Less than two frames and I generally don’t fix. The rule of thumb for my hitters is the hands MUST end up – height-wise – around the back armpit. Slightly above, in-line, or below is okay. Think about a boxer delivering a knockout punch. Watch the “line” Mike Tyson creates right before he delivers a knockout punch (uppercuts excluded)…
If a hitter’s hands end up too low, then they’ll consistently swing and miss, foul back, or popup pitches elevated in the strike zone. Learn how to turn a pitcher’s weapon against them with these hitting softball drills.
In This Drill Video…
- We define “hands drop”,
- We define RNT (or Reactive Neuromuscular Training),
- How to setup the drill, and
- Focus on process, NOT performance.
Click Here for another example of RNT in the stepping in the bucket drill.
If you don’t have them already, then here’s equipment you’ll need for this type of hitting softball drills:
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Tribe 11pc Resistance Band Set
– with Door Anchor, Handles, Ankle Straps – Stackable Up To 80lbs – For Resistance Training, Physical Therapy, Home Workouts, or the…
.Please try this out and let me know how it works for your hitters in the Comments section below… (Thanks in advance!)
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The RNT Drill Didn’t Fix It?
There’s a Second Root Cause.
The band drill above fixes hands drop during the load phase. But if the barrel is still dropping through the zone after running it, your hitter likely has Racing Back Elbow Bat Drag — a swing-phase fault that resistance bands can’t reach.
The free Dropping Hands Fix & Drill Card covers both root causes — the load-phase fault you just read about, and the swing-phase fault most coaches miss — with a diagnosis checklist and corrective drills for each.
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, consistent power doesn’t come from conventional softball hitting drills teaching:
, the brain-body connection doesn’t work in this way:
