rounding out in baseball is a huge issue
especially in youth baseball some of the
younger players that I see have a lot of
trouble
not hitting line drives they're hitting
weak ground balls a lot of the times and
there's three main reasons for this and
we're gonna address all three in this
video and I'm going to talk about how to
fix each one individually now you have
to identify which of these three or
maybe it's more than one of the three is
causing your player to have these weak
ground balls okay the first reason is
gonna be weakness the player could just
be a weak player they're not strong
enough just yet to have that drive
behind the baseball you know they're not
using their legs well enough they're
maybe they're staying tall and they're
just real lazy with their swing so we
have to focus on becoming stronger in
their swing we have to make them more of
an athlete so we're really gonna focus
on getting them into a good strong
athletic stance to start that's the
fundamental of that one and then of
course we want to help them with their
strength maybe add in some sit up some
body weight obviously we're talking
about young guys here so we're not gonna
be in the weight room squatting 315
pounds but we can do bodyweight squats
bodyweight lunges Sprint's things of
this nature to help them become stronger
athletes and that's really going to take
their swing to that next level and help
them stop hitting those weak ground
balls the second reason for young
baseball players that are hitting weak
ground balls is that they're swinging
down a lot of the times we were taught
at least I was taught growing up that we
want to swing down to this baseball now
if I do that correctly and I swing down
and I make great contact with it the
path of my bat is hitting that ball into
the ground there's a perfect ground ball
to the shortstop I am out that's not
what we want okay so to fix this you
have to do two things you have to
understand what a good swing plane is
and then you have to work on having a
good swing plane so first of all what is
a good swing plane swing plane is just
getting your bat on the plane of the
pitch as early as possible and staying
through that zone as long as possible
staying on that plane as long
possible meaning the pitch is coming
from a guy on the mound so it's going to
be coming slightly downward into the
strike zone
so to get on plane with that pitch you
may think okay we got to swing up you
really don't have to swing up you just
have to get on plane and how do we get
on plane we create an axis to swing
around all we do is we tilt our upper
body over okay we get into an athletic
stance if we're standing straight up our
axis has a swing in this way but if we
tilt over now when I swing around that
axis I'm getting right on plane and
finishing through the ball so I'm not
really swinging up I'm just swinging
around my axis the axis that I created
and that's what we want to do to have a
good swing plate to work on swing plane
we just want to focus on creating that
body angle okay it's creating that tilt
creating that axis to swing around and
then work on it when we're taking our
swing so if we're having a player that's
swinging and we notice he's starting
like this starting in a good this is
another thing you'll notice you'll see
him start in a good position with a good
body angle but when they go to swing
their first movement is to come and pull
out of that body angle so you really
want to focus and make sure that the
player is feeling that body angle stay
the whole time chest over toes and
swinging around that one thing I like to
mention is when they finish their swing
they should have a slight tilt still
over the plate this way if they maintain
their body angle the whole way so it
looks a little something like this
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third reason I see youth baseball
players hitting wheat ground balls is
because of the roll over and I'm sure
you've all heard about the roll over and
that's just when our hands get away from
our body and our wrists start to roll
over too early in the swing in a good
swing we want to stay inside the ball
get to contact
and then I risk don't roll over till out
in front okay what I see a lot of guys
do is they start to create energy and
they're pulling their back through their
hands get away from their body and now
their hands roll over before contact and
they get a little bubble in their swing
so if I'm hitting this ball here and my
hands start to roll over here and I get
that little bubble right there I'm gonna
hit the top of that ball usually a weak
ground ball to the shortstop or a third
baseman for a righty
so to fix this we have to work on
staying inside the baseball now what is
saying inside the baseball mean that
doesn't necessarily mean that we're
trying to hit the ball inside out that
we're trying to hit a ball on the
outside inside part of the plate to the
right fielder for a right-handed hitter
that doesn't mean that to me what's
saying inside the ball means is that our
hands are gonna stay close to our body
okay we're gonna stay inside the ball
here our hands are not gonna get out and
around okay so that's what that means to
me so how do we work on that we could do
a drill over here by the fence you just
get on the fence if there's a pad or
something and you're gonna stop at
contact you're gonna get over here and
you're just going to take your swing
boom and then you're going to stop at
contact let's stop a contact drill is
good because when you get down there and
you stop you can check yourself and make
sure you stayed connected you want to
make sure that this back elbow is
connected to your side the entire swing
until after contact we disconnect from
our side with our elbow depending on
where the pitch is if it's an outside
pitch I'm going to start in I'm getting
connected I'm inside the ball let's say
it's an outside pitch let me set up
there first outside pitch right I'm here
I'm connected and then I get to that
ball here boom contact I'm still
connected at contact and then I'm
extending off through their middle pitch
I'm just riding I'm staying connected
I'm staying inside a little bit longer
right boom contact disconnecting getting
through that ball inside pitch now I'm
riding even longer
I'm staying connected even longer here
I'm staying inside even longer until
contact boom then disconnecting
following through that way so those are
the three main reasons for young guys
hitting ground
weak ground balls usually to their pull
side that's what happens now if this is
one of your one of these or your issue
or two or three or these are your issue
you really want to focus on the things
that I talked about to fix them okay if
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