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Here is a great hitting drill for you, for teaching kids to throw their hands, keeping their body back so their body does not go forward. A great hitting drill is that you put a ball on a tee, and this is a low ball tee and does not have an extender on it but we could put the ball here. You can move it up, you can get various heights and what you do is you have the coach or you have a player, and this is a good station drill while you are doing hitting.
You can do this hit balls into the fence, you get some bad balls and then put them on a tee and then hit on the fence. You have one player, put the ball on the tee, and the other player gets in his stance and says hit. What the hitter has got to do is get the bat to the ball as quickly as possible. That sounds easy; you get the bat to the ball as quickly as possible.
But you will find is that they will tend to do go like this and stride and move forward coming through. Instead of popping the hips and going right thought the ball, so when they do this drill, you let them get into position and let them wait and then you have them say hit and what it forces them to do is spin and stay behind the ball, in this form instead of going forward taking a big stride and going forward. It is just teaching you to pop the hips and get that bat in a position so that it is here, perfect form, bat is out in front, everything else is behind the bat and they are just popping the hips and getting it to the ball. It is a very good drill for getting guys to keep behind the ball. So the batter swings only when he hears hit and he swings the bat as fast as he can just popping the hips.
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