FiveFrameSwing
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Wouldn't think those were to mark the strike zone since they are using a pitching machine, but who knows.
I was thinking the same thing that crankermo wrote. I like the "ichiro" drill to help push off the back foot.
[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=FKIUDsSwo2c[/video]
This is the drill, BUT I always do it in one fluid motion, pushing hard off of the inside of the back foot. I am not sure of why they stop at toe touch.
We use a drill similar to this that we refer to as the "Either Drill". LClifton over at BBD described it to many of us.
The way it works is that you load back similar to what you see below for a time duration between 1 to 3 secs ... a coach standing by will vary the time (1-3 secs) and say 'go'. Upon hearing the word 'go' the batter coils forward to hit. The batter does not 'explode forward', but goes at their own controlled pace.
I extend the drill to alternate between adding a 1-sec pause that you see in the Youtube example, and also the smooth continuous swings ... it helps in terms of learning to land on a soft flexed leg, so as to be prepared for an off-speed pitch, with the understanding that the real weight shift occurs with the use of the hands. During that 1-sec pause you should be mildly continuing to flex/bend your lead leg.