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Squared basically allows you to hit the middle, but it's shaky on inside pitches and sometimes doesn't have the range for outside pitches (again, bat length). Closed hits pretty much the entire right side, but you give away the left side.
If you have been trying hard to pick up the ball early when hitting but really struggle to see the ball well, the first thing to check is your eyesight. If you haven't had you eyes checked in a few years it might be a good idea to do so.
- Vision
- Watch The Baseball
- The 4% Difference
- Value of Vision
- What You See on TV
- Headright, Headlight
- Bat Speed Test
Hello, Chas Pippitt,aka Captain Obvious, here to tell you about the most valuable skill in baseball: The ability to watch the ball. If you can’t see the ball hit the bat…what are these guys looking at? Now, I’m sure some eye doctor will say ‘it’s physically impossible to see the baseball hit the bat’ and someone else will tell the story that Ted Wi...
Now, EVERY SINGLE KID has had EVERY SINGLE COACH tell him to ‘watch the baseball’ in one form or another. From ‘keep your head still’, to ‘you can’t hit what you can’t see’, to ‘watch the ball hit the bat’, the expressions are endless…and so is the mistake of hitters pulling his or her head to see where the ball goes before the ball makes contact w...
I’m going to tell you that when talking to Johnny Narron, Josh Hamilton’s personal hitting coach, he told me that he thinks the difference between the truly great hitters like Josh, A-Rod, ManRam, Bonds, Mays…the list goes on, from an all-star player was ‘two feet of vision’ during a pitched ball. Josh Hamiltonpracticing off a batting tee…Totally f...
So I started to really think about this idea, on how to train kids to ‘Value their Vision’ as their main tool to be as good a player as they can be. NL MVP Joey Vottowith his eyes perfectly in the hitting zone, behind the baseball, and in the path of the pitch. Here’s what I came up with: Joey references a ‘broomstick’ drill on swing smarter.com wh...
Keep in mind, you’ll watch tv and see guys hitting home runs and ‘watching the ball leave the yard’ and you’ll think, Chas, those guys aren’t keeping their heads still. I’ll say two things do that: First: Yes they are, INSIDE the swing they are motionless. The swing truly ends at full wrist snap and extension. So those guys are ‘finished’ before th...
One way we did this was with our fun idea we affectionately call the HeadRight HeadLight. The HeadRight HeadLight forces kids to ‘GET YOUR HEAD RIGHT’ when they hit. We turn the lights off, so it’s pitch black dark, and we hit. How does that work? Well, we strap a light to the hitter’s head, above his nose, that we can angle down at a ball sitting ...
At Baseball Rebellion, we are tired of coaches who regurgitate information that is tired, old, and in most cases, incorrect. Our own research into biomechanics, muscle activation, kinetics, and HD video study proves our stances on what we teach and why we teach it. Our challenge is translating the video into a systematic approach that is understand...
A closed batting stance is when your front foot is closer to the plate than your back foot – making you closed to the pitcher. Being closed will make seeing the baseball a little more difficult since your back is turned a little toward the pitcher.
Apr 4, 2022 · This post will shine light on how to see the ball better, keep the front shoulder in during the swing, and will suggest the best batting stance for power…. I know, I know, Some well meaning coaches will think, “Well, a closed stance cuts off a hitter’s vision, and/or restricts hip movement” …. I get it.
When hitters get their eyes, nose and chin behind their belly button in their stance, it means that they are starting in a bad posture and their back shoulder is a little (or sometimes a lot) below their front shoulder.
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Feb 23, 2016 · On the closed stance, the foot closest to the pitcher’s mound is placed slightly closer to home plate than the other foot. The key word here is slightly. You can overdo most anything, and getting too closed with your stance will definitely hamper your hitting.
