In Game Adjustments: Fight or Flight Hitting
Players make adjustments in many ways. Some adjustments are slow and take more time (season to season). Others are faster like a game to game or at bat to at bat adjustment. The Fastest adjustments, pitch to pitch adjustments, can ONLY be made if the adjustment has been practiced and planned for. In the instance of the McGregor vs Porier, Connor planned for the takedown attempts and clinch game of Porier.
How Should a Hitter Load?
In the world of hitting certain words can invoke certain movements, good and bad. It’s not really the words that matter as much but how the individual athlete interprets those words and how they manifest those words into a particular movement.
Create More Power By Loading Through the Back Heel
Recently, the heel plan of the back leg and keeping it planted as long as possible has become a hot topic here a baseball rebellion. Eric and I specifically have gone back and forth on the best ways to teach it and get hitters to ‘feel it’. My favorite way and the fastest way we’ve found is the toes off the ground drill.
This vs. That – Early Head Pull vs. Late Head Release
For this week’s installment of This vs. That, I wanted to hit on a subject that I see a lot of coaches and parents get confused about. That would be the issue of loss of vision due to pulling the head out. You hear it all of the time, “you’re pulling your head out!” A common phrase you might hear anytime a young player misses the ball. While this can definitely be a possibility, it’s not always true. The problem is that in real time, it can seem as though the player is in fact pulling their head out way too soon. When in actuality, it happens so fast that the coach or parent can’t see that their head is actually right where it needs to be.
Stay Connected To Consistently Hit Balls Harder
As many of us know power comes from our pelvis/ hips and legs. This is why when you come to Baseball Rebellion, we do so much work with our hitters on the Rebel’s Rack in the mirror to gain the ability to sequence our turn properly. However, if we don’t stay connected during our swing, we won’t be able to use the turn we’ve taken so long to craft. Learn how to better stay connected within your swing to use your turn more effectively.
This vs That – Step Out vs. Move Out
For this next edition of “This vs. That”, I thought we might address the difference between “stepping” out and “moving” out. Once again, two different things that commonly get twisted up together as the same. While they can look similar in the real time speed of a game or practice, it’s important that you know why these happen and what they may cause as a result.
3 Tips To See the Ball Better When Hitting
3 Tips To See The Ball Better When Hitting How Can Your Stance Affect Your Vision A great swing with poor vision is essentially useless. Don’t get me wrong, poor…
Understanding Swing Feel And Swing Real
Understanding Swing Feel And Swing Real Having feel for what you’re doing in the box is something I talk about with my hitters daily. Your feel is something you need…
Mental Marker Series – Separation
JK Whited’s Mental Marker Series- Separation If you don’t know already, a players ability to separate correctly is vital to their success as a rotational athlete. In today’s Mental Marker…
The Best Way to Hit More Homers: Home Run Opportunity Percentage
Baseball Rebellion talks about how training to hit the ball a certain way can instantly increase your hard contact and extra base hits
Mental Marker Series- Swing Plane
JK Whited gives a drill that helps hitters who are hitting weak pop-ups and groundballs generate more power and more consistency
5 Ways the Direction Drill Can Help You Stop Hooking Foul Balls
Learn how the Direction Drill can help hitters stop hooking balls foul and drive more balls to the gaps which leads to more extra base hits and more runs!