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Ryan is going to assist me in setting his up.
If you would Ryan, take your position. Notice that often times with this drill,
Can I borrow you bat for a second?
Coaches will have you do it this way. I do not like to do it this way. This is too easy; it is not really a challenge to me so, we set Ryan up a little closer. We are going to have him about a foot and a half away from the fence. You notice he is no way he can extend his bat without making contact there. If you feel like you are not close enough for you too far away, this is a good check point. When you place your feet, you should have a bend in your elbow. If your arms straight, you are too far away, you need to move up some.
So Ryan is check. His got a bend in the arm and he is ready to go. This is what we want; this is the technique that we want to emphasize. I want him take his foot, he get a little bit movement backward. He will take the stride in his front foot. And this is the point of emphasis; we want him to start his hips first and let the upper body follow which is something that most hitters do not do.
So, he is going to rotate his hips; notice that his upper body follows through. The bats’ above the shoulder from here, he is got the bat and I am pointed at the ball and he is going to let that bat right, right down along side the shoulder and then he will finish his swing.
Something that it is kind of impressive once you learn how to do it because you stand as close to the fence yet you do not make contact and initially, if you do may contact, if you like that bat slide out the way from your shoulder, and you make contact it is telling you that you are extending the arm push in a bat away in your opponent through.
We do not want that, we want the arms to stay in.
We want Ryan to stay in what we call a good box. Notice the box that he is got here, front of the box, bottom across the shoulder is top of the box, down the back arm is the back of the box.
Okay, Ryan. Inward turn stride, squeeze your bag,
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Notice how is his arm just still in the box. His arms have not straighten out and his not lost the box here and he is going to go ahead and extend from here,
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Contact and then you will drive through it. Forces you to stay in a good box and make sure that you maintain good hand quickness and good drive through the ball.
Okay, Ryan let us take look at a couple.
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Notice how he keeps the hands in close to the body. Stays in his box, see how he executes the swing. In spite of the fact that he is standing right up on the fence,
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If you extend here, you are going to whack the fences. It is going to ring a little bit and you are going to really feel it.
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Okay, Ryan if would step away from the fence about two steps, right there, now swing again, same thing.
I want you to emphasize the same technique, except now you do not have worry about the fence being there. So as you execute your drill, you should do at least 10 of these a day and then back off the fence and 10 more without having to worry about the fence making contact but every time you swing, consider doing exact same technique as if you were stand right up on top of that fence and it just a good way to drive this drill home prior going in to hit.
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