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Pre-Extend Your Wrists - Another Way to Feel the Structure of a Great Swing
Many of the greatest pound for pound hitters actually swung with their wrists very pre-extended. Mel Ott, Stan Musial, and Jackie Robinson come to mind. But there have been quite a few. So not only is this a good way to feel the structure of a great swing, but it might just be the best way for you to hit too. By pre-extending the wrists, you are forced to call on all the other muscles to deliver the most power possible. In doing this, you automatically achieve very good positions. I still like the front arm progression the best. ...
The Front Arm Progression - The Secret Drill To Achieve a Great Baseball Swing Quickly
The 3 Minute Drill That Is Changing Baseball Swing Instruction I was just like you. I assumed that great swing mechanics was a skill that you build slowly, something like packing on muscle, improving your hand/eye coordination, or improving your pitch recognition. But swing mechanics - the way in which you move through the swing - can be changed in a single instant to produce dramatically different results. How is this possible? Think of swing mechanics as a language. The language of your swing communicates with the pitched ball to produce a result. When you change the language of your...
Baseball Swing Mechanics - Barry Bonds vs. Babe Ruth
The model of the modern swing is a back arm dominant movement. It is far inferior to the movement employed by the greatest hitters of all time. All the modern swing gurus who advocate this back arm dominant swing have copied guys like Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez, and Miguel Cabrera. These guys were fantastic hitters, obviously. But they accomplished their numbers through strength, not necessarily mechanics. Their mechanics were't horrible, but they weren't ideal. When constructing your ideal swing to develop your theories on mechanics, doesn't it make sense to pick the very best hitters, who haven't been accused...
The Baseball Swing - Moving Fulcrum vs. Getting On Plane (The Pinball Example)
Does Getting On-Plane Really Matter In the Baseball Swing?
Ted Williams wrote about the concept of swinging with a slight uppercut to your swing in 1970. It didn't really help anyone then and it won't help anyone now. This trend of "new school" hitting coaches touting the importance of swinging up more stems from the advent of launch angle monitors in baseball. Here is one such example of what I'm talking about, but there are endless examples of this on the internet. Regardless of where it comes from, IT WON'T HELP YOU HIT BETTER. What matters when it comes to consistency in baseball is a system working in the...