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This is a half bat soft-toss drill or you could use a T-ball bat. The idea is that you are using a bat that is smaller and lighter because we are going to use one-hand drills here.
We are going to use the half bat with Jake and it is just the baseball bat with the barrel cut-off of it. And with this, he is just going to start off using his bottom hand and he is going to swing through on the soft-toss drill using his bottom hand.
Ideally, when the bottom hand comes into the contact position, we want it to be with palm down and that is what we are working here. It really isolates that particular spot in the swing and allows us to really concentrate on that. With all drills, all hitting drills, we want Jake to continue to work on his rhythm and timing, and the sequence of the swing. That is very important that we keep that intact.
Jake is going through his normal swing and working on the bottom hand. By using the half bat; he can control it and make excellent swings. Once again, Jake is doing a great job, hitting line drives and that is exactly what you want to have in the drill.
Jake is now going to use only his top hand on the bat and we are going to work on the movement of the top hand through the swing. We are also going to look at his elbow and make sure that it is coming into a slot on a 45 degree-angle into the hitting position.
The ideal thing is for him to have his palm up at the point of contact and then continue through the swing. That will use your whole rhythm, timing, sequence, everything with Jake.
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