Your Bat Grip – What You Need to Know So we’ve made our selection on a bat. Now how do we hold our weapon? To some of you this may seem a bit remedial at first but it is very important. Let’s start at the basics. First off we got our weapon. If you’re a...
Baseball Hitting Stance – Where to Put the Body My teammate with the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Milwaukee Brewers, Craig Council, used to have one of the strangest stances. Guess he’s changed it now, but he used to stand up there, his hands pointed so high. He...
How to Place Your Hands in Your Hitting Stance So as in our previous lesson, we talked about stance. In this lesson I want to talk to you about where our hands should be. We talked about where our feet, our chest, our legs should be in our stance. Where...
Hitting Stance Head Placement Like we talked about in the previous segment, a lot takes place up here in our head, a lot of things that can screw us up at the plate. We’re not going to talk about that in this segment. We’re going to talk about the actual location of...
Hitting Stance Rhythm So I’m not much of a dancer. I don’t know maybe you are, but I’m not, because you’ve got to have a little rhythm to dance. But rhythm and dancing is different than rhythm and hitting. Rhythm and hitting is necessary. Lack of rhythm at the plate...
Hitting Stance – The Load So if you were going to throw a punch and I’m not advocating fighting, but if you wanted to really throw a hard punch, what would you do. Would you stand here like this and just throw a little punch or would you pull your hand back and...
