ConorMacleod
Practice Like You Play
- Jul 30, 2012
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You are right about not everyone can afford a hitting coach. Where you are dead wrong is the need for a personal hitting coach. The great hitters take lessons and work just as hard on perfecting their swing and good pitchers do on their craft.
When it comes to hitting most kids are practice players, meaning their bat almost never comes out of their bag unless they are at team hitting. They don't work on it everyday and can't figure out why they are not having any success.
Actually, what I meant by that was I believe hitters can be successful without a personal hitting coach, whereas I don't see how a Pitcher can be successful without ever having a personal pitching coach. Hitters will certainly be better with a personal hitting coach, but I believe the art of the windmill pitch is much harder to learn and be successful at than hitting. I was a very good hitter and Pitcher in baseball when I was younger. So, I felt confident in teaching my girls about hitting (with some adjustments for softball as opposed to baseball), but I didn't know the first thing about teaching my DD the windmill pitch. Girls could be learning hitting since t-ball, or even younger. How many girls learn the windmill pitch at age 4? But yes, you are correct in stating that somebody with a hitting coach will most likely be more successful than a hitter without one.