Step timing... Good or Bad? | Baseball Hitting Mechanics (Pro Speed Baseball)
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Timing the swing with your stride is a great feeling. It makes sense to a lot of hitters...
However, more times than not, leads to huge inconsistency, lower batting averages and mishit balls.
But why is that? It feels great and makes sense!
In today's lessons, we are going to go into the main reasons why step timing can work sometimes and not others...
...and give you a great alternative that eliminates the faults of step timing!
Thanks for watching and I hope to help you much more with your game in the future!
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Michael Derr
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Thank you. Your presentation of info is simple, direct, useful, and understandable. If you could hear baseball coaches of 10 year olds teach hitting you would get nauseous.
Great video Lessons. I have been watching closely at your swings and there is one thing that stands out for me: your hands lead your hips. I took a screen shot here "down the line" at 100% and your barrel is gone through while your hips are arriving to the action after. You shared a pic of Mig Cabrera and Trout and other videos and you can clearly see at slomo their hips arriving while bat is at lag. Opposite of yours. Your hands have taken the barrel through the zone and then the hips arrive on the follow through. To watch what I mean see your pivot foot at the point of contact 5:47 . It tells where in the action your hips are. I teach my little leaguers the following and I see stronger results. "Hips then hands" vs "hands then hips". Just something I noticed. Not being nitpicky. Just an observation. I am still enjoying watching your videos.
Hey Social Travel Ball!
I will post this on your other comment as well to help with the understanding. There's a lot to the swing that can't all be covered in one video, but as stated in the "No Rotation" video, it's physically impossible to swing a bat at a certain speed without an efficient kinematic sequence. That sequence being, hips, shoulders, arms, and hands... for simple terms. Therefore if we are swinging at a high enough speed, that sequence has to be in order. The reason you're not seeing my hips as open as the big league swings is simply because I'm not swinging at full speed for these videos... in my full speed swings, my hips are wide open verbatim the big league swings... I've trained many players, including MLB players, in the same manner as we teach in our instruction and for a lot of players, not all, it is highly beneficial to take away focus from the hips as they will fire to support speed... again it being impossible to swing at a certain speed without firing the hips.... which is one of the main points of the "No Rotation" lesson.
So if we're looking at what's happening on camera, yes, the kinematic sequence of the swing starting with the hips is absolutely correct. Yet, if we're talking about teaching, feel vs. real is a huge part of making sure students are executing a swing that produces results.
Many of my students claim to feel like their swinging all arms, however that's a feel... we've actually gone as far as strapping them to a K-Vest, which measures the kinematic sequence, and all of my students tested, are in the top percentile of how the body fires. Feel versus what's actually happening is a very important thing to understand when it comes to practical application.
Hope this helps out with some understanding! Thanks again for the comment!
Man. I've retired from baseball almost 7 years ago, but I love watching this channel. There's too many loose details when it comes to hitting, and thanks to this channel I managed to be at my best coming to the plate... Blessings bro 🙌🏻
I love watching this channel. There's too many loose details when it comes to hitting, and thanks to this channel I managed to be at my best coming to the plate... Blessings bro 🙌🏻
Just because if feels good, doesn’t mean it is good. I love that so much. I tell my bass students this all the time. It’s amazing how much of this translates to playing music, especially bowed string instruments and drums/percussion!
This is awesome
Where'd you go?!!!
Very true
What if your player does a double step? Any suggestions?
Great video. I have a channel for my son who is 15. He has been trained by former MLB catcher for the past two years. I'm videoing all of the lessons and hopefully its helping people out. Check out the channel and comment the videos and let me know what you think. We are always learning.