Getting Into the Batters Box
Alright now we’re going to get into the batters box. We always get into the batters box with our back foot first and when we do we give ourselves a confidence self talk we’re saying well get a rip or I’m going to rip, whatever it is that you decide that you want to say this is your business offers, this is the place and this is the beginning of a good end bat.
Now we put the front side in and we are going to come in just about shoulder width, maybe just slightly beyond shoulder width, we want a good base. As Bryan is taking preliminary swings it’s a good idea to understand that you’re preliminary swings practice swings are always out front. Let’s do some bad things to that base. We’re going to get your feet too close together. Touching each other, yeah of course that’s a terrible base. Did you make a tackle with that base? No. Do you have stability with that base? No.
Let’s go extra wide, now I know this is kind of a popular way to hit. These are hitters that really don’t stride. They may get out there and they just try to use their hips. There’s only one problem with that there’s still not good stability because the stability has to be where you can be in an athletic position such as a basketball player, defense, a linebacker in football so we’re going to move those feet under us and get them in a good basic stance. The other thing that we’re going to do is we’re going to align up our body in 3 areas. We’ll begin with the front side you have 6 major joints, you have ankle, you have knee, you have hip, you have shoulder, you have elbow and you have the bottom hand at the wrist.
These joints are all in the family. They stay together on the way to the wall. They do not come apart. Let’s imagine if Bryan would do what we call a separation. He’s going to move his hands back away from his body and as he does then he loses the power position of the front side. So let’s go back to the regular stance and assignment to the front side. The front side is responsible to take us to the ball and keep us in alignment. That’s its major role in setting up the stroke.
Let’s go to the back side same 6 joints. You’ve got ankle, knee, hip, shoulder, elbow and the rest of the top hand. Those 6 points represent the back side and the reason why we say front side or back side is that of course the front side is closer to the pitcher. The back side is farthest from the pitcher. The front side, its assignment take us to the ball, keep us alignment. The back side’s assignment that’s the power side so as we go up that side there, one more time if you look at the shoulder, the elbow and the wrist on the back side all of that needs to stay together right where it’s at all the way to the ball.
We go back again to that equation. Where are you going to be when you bat stroke, are you going to be in a state power, are you going to get weak on your way to the ball. Let’s also look at center mass. Now if you’re looking at it, we got a yellow cup on the center of home play so that is in between exactly in between both feet and that’s where the belly button lives as we come up to the belly button and that’s where the head lives and so it’s almost like being on a pole where that body is not going to go linear but just a little bit through the strut.
Most of it is going to rotate so he’s pretty much going to stay center mass throughout the stroke whereby his center mass is in between his two feet.
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