Today I've got the top 10 drills you can do with mini wiffle balls to become a better
baseball player.
My name is Coach Madden, I'm the official trainer at YouGoProBaseball.com and you'll
hear me in my videos talk a lot about training small and this is what I'm talking about when
I talk about training small.
These mini wiffle balls are a great way to work on catching, hitting.
Imagine if you can catch and hit these things, hitter the bigger ball, the baseball, is going
to be a lot easier.
This really works on your hand-eye coordination.
So let's get into it, Top 10 Drills you can do with these mini wiffle balls.
The first drill is going to be bare handed, one handed, catches.
So all we're going to do in this drill is get a partner to throw the balls, we're going
to get into a good athletic position, see this ball all the way in.
You really want to have soft hands.
We're only working on one hand right here.
You can switch hands if you want because we're really working on hand-eye coordination more
than anything here and just beings soft and trying to catch all these balls as they're
thrown to you.
Obviously you want to try to do more with your glove side hand because that's where
you're going to be catching these balls but again you can switch hands, really just working
on the hand-eye coordination, trying to do one hand at a time.
That last one I did two hands but try to do one hand at a time when you're catching these
balls.
Drill number 2 we're going to do the same thing except we're going to put on the Web
Glove.
I sell these on my website.
I'll leave a link below where you can get them and at the end of this video I'm going
to offer you guys a coupon code to get this and some of the other things I talk about
in this video.
But we're going to do the same exact thing except we're using this Web Glove.
It's a great tool and drill to do the same thing and work on that hand-eye coordination
and catching the mini balls.
It's very hard, this is a lot harder than the bare handed version because you've really
got to be super focused.
If you thought catching it with the bare hand was hard, this is even harder and you've got
to really see these mini balls in all the way.
For drill number 3 with the mini balls all we're going to do is the same thing.
We're going to use the Web Glove but we're going to progress it more and make it a little
more difficult and we're going to close one eye and try to catch these balls.
This is super hard if you've never done it before it's very, very hard and I'm impressing
myself already on how many, well I was, one more.
It's very very hard.
I was impressed that I caught those 3 in the beginning.
This is a great great drill.
Here's an old clip of me and Dee Gordon doing the same drill to get him ready before a season
one year.
Obviously you'll switch and do the other side.
You can also get a little eye patch if you don't want to hold your hands over.
Obviously you don't want to share your eye patch with your team.
You can get them for like a dollar at CVS or Wallgreens.
For drill number 4 we're going to be hitting with a regular bat off of the Personal Pitcher
Mini Wiffle Ball Pitching Machine.
WHOA!
This thing is great.
Obviously it mixes the location up but it's great to work on training small.
Hitting these mini balls.
Obviously if you can hit these mini balls with a big bat, you're going to be a lot better
at hitting with the regular baseball.
This is a very, very tough drill and when you work on training small like that, you're
really going to get a lot better with your hand eye coordination.
For drill number 5 we're going to hit these mini wiffle balls with the skinny barrel bat
to make it even harder, progress this drill even more, make it more difficult.
Obviously you see I missed those last two but if you can hit that mini ball with this
skinny barrel bat, you've got to be pretty accurate with your swing and have good bat
control to do so.
So this is another great way to progress this drill and work with the mini wiffle balls.
HEADS UP!
The Personal Pitcher Mini Wiffle Ball Pitching Machine is also available on my website for
sale and again I'm going to leave a link below and also at the end of this video I'm going
to give you a coupon code if you're interested in purchasing that.
This skinny barrel bat is the Hitmaster Grobat.
This is also for sale on my website and I'll leave a link below where you can get this
as well and again at the end of the video I'm going to leave a coupon code if you're
interested in getting it.
For drill number 6 we're going to use the Personal Pitcher again and we're going to
need a partner for this one as well.
We're going to turn on the Personal Pitcher and our partner is going to be just off to
the side.
The partner is going to be tossing a mini wiffle ball, as well as the Personal Pitcher
shooting in.
Right now I have it on 55 mph.
You can have it on 55, 45, 35 whatever you set your Personal Pitcher to but we're going
to have it on 55 and a partner also tossing and then my partner is going to yell out "toss"
if he wants me to hit the tossed ball and not say anything if he wants me to hit the
machine pitched ball.
So I have to differentiate as the balls are coming in very quickly decide, take my hands
to the ball and hit the proper ball that's called out.
Drill number 6, we're doing pop flies with the Personal Pitcher using the mini wiffle
balls.
We're just going to get set up, let the pitching machine shoot you a pop fly.
We're going to get underneath it, make a good catch using the Web Glov.
For drill number 8 we're going to do infielding with the Personal Pitcher.
We can use our bare hands or you can try it with the Web Glov, but you're staying low,
having soft hands fielding that ball.
You can work on short hops like I'm kind of doing now or regular ground balls.
Just being soft, funneling that ball up to the middle of your body.
Trying to have good fielding technique, keep your feet moving as you're doing it.
WHOA!
Drill number 9 we're going to do catching drills.
We can work on our framing, our receiving, using the Personal Pitcher and the Web Glove.
You've really got to be perfect and have good hand-eye coordination and really work on your
rocking and your swaying and framing these balls when you catch them.
Feel that ball out in front, try to work on that low strike, and have good soft hands
when you're catching this ball.
For drill number 10 we're going to work on bunting with the skinny barrel bat.
You saw me bunting earlier with the regular bat, but this drill becomes extremely more
hard when you use the skinny barrel bat.
You really have to focus in and see this ball hit the barrel.
Very, very challenging drill.
Great for hand-eye coordination, working on bunts.
Obviously I want to make sure I'm in front of this plate so that when I hit the ball
down it's in fair territory.
But a great, great drill to do with the mini wiffle balls.
So those are the top 10 drills that you can do with the mini wiffle balls.
I hope you guys liked this video.
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As promised, I want to give you a coupon code if you're interested in buying the Personal
Pitcher or the Web Glov or the Hit Master Grow Bat off of my website.
The coupon code you're going to enter is TOPTEN.
So when you go to my website, I'll leave the link below where you can do that, in fact
I'll even leave a card right here that's going to pop up that you can click and go to my
website and if you purchase any of these and you enter TOPTEN in the coupon code area,
I'm going to hook you up with a discount.
Also, I'm going to hook you up with a bundle discount.
So if you're interested in buying the Personal Pitcher, the Web Glov, and the skinny bat
together, as well as the tripod, I'm going to give you a bundle deal too so.
Definitely check those out.
Again, it's a great, great tool.
Even if you don't have the Personal Pitcher you can still do these mini wiffle ball drills
you're just going to need a partner to throw them.
They sell these at target.
I also sell the wiffle balls on my website.
But again you don't necessarily need this to do all of these drills, it's just such
a great tool, all of them are great tools, just to progress the drills and make them
a little bit harder.
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Leave me a comment below and let me know what was your favorite of these drills, of these
10 drills, and if you have any questions, of course, leave them below and I'll talk
to you there.
Thanks guys!
I'll see you in the next video!