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May have notice before that I was holding a Whiffle Bat, this is one of my favorite props in working with hitters.
It is our opportunity to give our hitters a clue is to how faster bat’s moving. I used to use and old cane and take a piece of white tape and put it, wrap it around in the end of the cane. The problem was, I have hitters who were catching up to me. Knocking the white tape of and the same time, send the canes wrapped in over the field that if I was probably good idea to stop that and picked this up.
This is the thing I found, you can get this anywhere. I am sure at the local discount stores or something, you probably play with them when you are kids or you are still playing with them? Maybe, just like I am.
Okay, what am I ask Ryan to do is to go ahead and his stance. And I am going to move out in front of him a little bit and I am going to hold the bat, right here.
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And now what am I am going to ask Ryan to do is this: He can go ahead and start into his swing,
As he gets the point where his hands have come forward, as his beginning to make a stroke, I can move the bat.
And what I am going to ask Ryan to do is not try to cheat, I want him to be quick enough from his stance end into his swing to be able to catch up to my whiffle bat before I can move it. And if you can do that, his moving the bat in a hurry. Here we go.
Now, this gives Ryan something to shoot at. If you just walk up to here and say, “Ryan, swing the bat hard”.
Well, what is hard?
Hard to Ryan may not be hard as someone else. This give him a solid idea of if how fast you have move. You got to move fast enough to beat me.
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Now Ryan is big and strong hitter and he is not catching up to any which he is good simply because, he is still something to work at.
I want 10 to 15 repetitions of a whiffle bat girl per day base on your age. We got a younger player, let us go back 10 repetitions and older player, let us get 15. It will only take you a couple of minutes. But that will generates some bat’s speed and plant in our mind that we got to have good hand quickness as we starting to our work out.
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Just work with the technique and we work our technique by swinging the bat.
Now, it is nice to have a moving object. It is also nice to have semi control strike every once in a while. So many of this has thrown so many strikes in fact, the arms gone and all we do is get real good of throwing 56 foot strikes. If you dad or buddy is ever been out or mom is try to throw bag and pitch you know what I mean.
This is Whiffle Golf Ball is a great alternate way to get extra swings. You can get this at discount stores for $2.50 for a dozen. Get your self a cup of dozen, it is a very minimal investment for whole out of gain.
The nice thing about the whiffle balls is I can throw a strike every time. If I want to work where I am inside, I can pretty much get at there because I am so close to him. I’m only 15 to 20 feet.
Outside I can get at there high low, wherever he is weak at, I can get at there and I can there and I can also vary it. So, we have very little down time with regard the poor pitches.
The sudden thing is it is very small so, it is hard for Ryan to hit it. If he does not keep his head down and track the ball, he is not going to make contact.
The third thing that is nice about it does not go every far. Which mean we do not have to chase 250 feet, it is that is why we are going to go 30 to 40 feet.
We will go run Ryan threw some and get some get some repetition. I am going to suggest you take prior to your batting to a game-situations batting that you take 15 to 25 cuts.
If you want to take more than that? Great. It is an off day for you and you were not taking a lot of cuts, you can come out in five minutes you can get 50 cuts. And that is also get buy product, you can get a lot of swings in a short period of time so it would take about 5, 6, 7 minutes to get in 50 swing.
Okay, Ryan let us take a look here.
I am working a little bit inside.
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Notice I duct my head? I do not want to get hit.
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I like to feed them under hand and I put something on them.
I do not lolly poping to it, let us go outside.
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It did not hurt but I was actually hit the tip of the nose.
If you do not like it, you do not have to swing.
Okay, let us work him up and strike some.
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Good!
And like that, you do not have to swing.
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15 to 25 takes you just a moment, we can work on going right, we can work on going left, hitting the ball wherever you want. They take just a moment to pick up and we are on to the next drill.
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