Bat Drag

What is the best cure or drill to cure bat drag?

mkral, I've found that the reverse top hand (or hand over) drill can really help. It is pretty much impossible to get the rear elbow in front of the hands in this position.

Thanks cshilt we will work more with that. I got one DD that just seems to keep going back to bad bat drag and she is at contact way out in front. She is not letting the ball get into the zone as much as I would like her to. It is time to break it all down again piece by piece I think and the hand over drill should be in the rebuild.
Thanks again!!
Mike

The beauty of the reverse top hand drill is that she can do it in the on deck circle and alternate with her regular grip every other swing. It is good reinforcement heading to the plate.

One arm drills with a stick bat and/or a whip-hit are excellent as well. Using the whip-hit makes it really hard, if not impossible, to drive back up the middle if your hand path is off.

Another is taking the bat out of her hands and interlocking the bottom hand index finger with the top hand pinky finger. Then you put a ball in the top hand. Have her go through her batting motion and throw the ball into the net.

My DD had brutal bat drag and was casting her hands out. A week of the fence drill fixed her right up. You can't get your elbows out front with your hands in tight. I know alot of hitting coaches here aren't fans of the fence drill, but it certainly illustrated to my DD what she was doing wrong.

Good luck.

If you are talking about this fence drill you are correct and we don't support it.
Reasons
Another drill in my opinion that is a waste of time is the fence drill. You stand belly button to the fence and place the knob of the bat in your belly button and then put the bat head against the fence and back away so you are at least the length of the bat away from the fence. What I find very interesting is that the total rotational people or people who think there is no linear movement in the hands would buy into this drill. How can you release the wrist and barrel into the ball if you are practicing opening the shoulders and front side to clear the fence? Why would I want to keep opening the front side on every pitch when I should be working on rotating as needed on every pitch?

Teach her how to correctly slot her back elbow. IMO, the correct move is a combination of external rotation of the upper arm combined with adduction. Pretty much every kid I have ever seen hit, does the adduction part. What they are missing is the external rotation part. It is especially absent in girls because girls typically don't throw overhand correctly.

I see the correct move as being very close to the sidearm throw. While simulating a sidearm throw, stop your arm as soon as it turns over to throw. While you are frozen in that position, pinch your forearm to your bicep. Your hand should now be very close to your back armpit/shoulder. From that position, if you were to slide a Swift-Stik in your hand, you could simple throw the Swift-Stik. Similar to how you throw a frisbee sidearm. To me it feels like I am throwing the "barrel to the ball".