differing hitting styles

[Cannonball]

Thank you everyone for your insights. It's one of the things you have to learn to deal with and work around, if you want to keep your job. I'm teaching what I know to be right but it will be more openly about mechanics and timing. Good results can cure a lot of stubbornness and preconceived ideas.

In my first year of coaching, I had to deal with this as an assistant coach. I knew the philosophy that the head coach wanted taught and I wanted a job. I did my best to do what he asked but I did drill work that I ran past him, demonstrated, and then showed him while working with hitters. Our team made serious gains from the year prior to me being there and he let go and allowed me to run with what I wanted. Of course, when we didn't do well in a particular game or two, I'd catch heck but slow and steady wins the race and we became a hitting power.