Feedback and drill ideas

Agree with the DR. Hands are first priority

Don’t know if this is cause or effect - but look at her front foot. It stays mostly closed - pointing to 1B - in the game swing. May be why it looks as if she stops rotating her hips right around contact.

In the practice swing, while she has a slight “hitch” (mistimed the toss?), her foot ends up pointing at the pitcher, which lets her back hip finish coming around (her belly button ends up pointed back to the pitcher).


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Thank you so much for the input!

Her front foot is something we’ve just started working on in practice and I believe the video of her doing front toss her dad was specifically addressing that issue that you see in the game hit.

I’ll start doing some reading and research on the loading process to better educate myself on how to help her.


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What things is she working on with her hitting instructor?

Her front foot is something we’ve just started working on in practice

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Is a non- teach....just saying.
Dropping of the hands and the downward bat path might be.

ifresita said:

DD is 11 playing mostly 12U travel and we’re starting to focus on hitting more since it’s taken a backseat to pitching for a while now. One thing she has struggled with consistently is staying through the ball. This is something that she focuses on at home and at her batting lessons. She’s on the petite side and is a bit stubborn, not personality wise just needs a lot of reps before she’ll change a bad habit. After watching this particular swing my husband is now convinced she’s in a big hurry to start running and get to 1B (she’s a pretty slow runner). Feedback/critique on the obvious and other issues you see here and ideas for drills to help her out?


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I think you are describing my daughter, LOL. I actually ended up taking her to a hitting coach, a very good one, to work on her swing. I payed a lot of money for her coach to tell her what I had been telling her but the coach took it to a new level and really broke her down and changed a lot. My daughter was really a pull hitter and tried to pull every pitch, which of course is bad. In a few weeks she was ripping pitches and spraying the ball more depending on pitch because she was keeping the bat in the zone longer. We used a small but heavier bat and did tee work. Also a good drill, we would do the bounce tennis balls at her into the zone. I like the dog toy that has a tennis ball and you whip it as well. She lines up and if she swings it right the ball goes into the net, if not it shoots out to the side.

I like the dog toy that has a tennis ball and you whip it as well. She lines up and if she swings it right the ball goes into the net, if not it shoots out to the side.

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I would love to see a video of this. If using the dog toy 'correctly' the ball should be throw into the ground almost to the side and behind the hitter. Used in correctly should 'goes into the net'.
Dog toy creates an 'out front swing'. JMHO.
Where would the tennis ball go on this swing if Pujol was using the 'dog toy'.


If we are talking about this dog toy:

That is the dog toy, I don't get what you are asking. My daughter swings it as if it is a bat, I actually modified it and added a bat handle for fun. She tries to sling it into the net as if back at the pitcher not towards the ground. I didn't invent this drill, I got it from a couple very successful college coaches. One of them had her girls doing it before a game during their warmups.

BuckeyeBW said:

That is the dog toy, I don't get what you are asking. My daughter swings it as if it is a bat, I actually modified it and added a bat handle for fun. She tries to sling it into the net as if back at the pitcher not towards the ground. I didn't invent this drill, I got it from a couple very successful college coaches. One of them had her girls doing it before a game during their warmups.

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If the hitter is creating out-front bat speed, the ball will go into the net. This isn't ideal. If the batter is creating early bat speed ("deep woosh"), the ball will be launched much earlier and will hit the ground as described by rdbass.

Eric F said:

It the hitter is creating out-front bat speed, the ball will go into the net. This isn't ideal. If the batter is creating early bat speed ("deep woosh"), the ball will be launched much earlier and will hit the ground as described by rdbass.

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Ok, interesting. Not saying your wrong or whatever. Neither team I watched was hitting the ground with it. The one coach I see regularly and I will bring it up to him. Thanks for the info.