well welcome back okay baseball moms and
dads listen up what if I told you there
was a place with air conditioning while
your kids can practice their baseball
technique and you don't have to sit in
your car to cool off you know what I'm
talking about the hitting Academy just
celebrated their opening day and it's
spectacular using technology to help
take their skills to the next level the
sound of the bat hitting the baseball is
music to my son's ear let it get deep
Conner let it get deep
each hit is being analyzed yep you heard
that right the Crawford boxes at the
hitting Academy in West u the swing and
the hit is monitored and you can
simulate what it's like to hit at any
ballpark in the US I drew your right arm
back angle which is 116 degrees that's a
very good and so is Adrian Beltre very
similar get that contact point we notice
the angle of his shoulders are a lot
more slanted than yours are right so
this allows him to get the launch in the
ball okay and with with you you're
flattered and obviously not as wide so
we can't get to that point for the
hitting Academy technology has changed
the way they coach and trained athletes
as young as five we do work a training
from five to seven year olds and once
they turn eight we can start getting
into the strength and conditioning types
of training with
and we go all the way up through high
school and college players there gonna
be some professionals that'll walk
through the door they use video analysis
equipment to stop bad habits and to take
the athlete to the next level
for example breaking down a hit or swing
60 frames per second we have the ability
to sync their swing with a major league
swing so they can see in certain parts
of their swing where they are where
their big leaguer is combine that with
our hit Trax baseball simulator baseball
is all about numbers these days so it
measures X in ball velocity distance
launch angle and so forth so with all
that type of equipment I think that's
what's really separates us from anything
else out there and breaking down the
mechanics of what is working and not
working can sometimes be overwhelming
for a younger athlete and my
ten-year-old son had a chance to see his
swing from start to finish his back back
leg is an l-shape yours is kind of
getting there all right so we got some
work to do another thing I noticed too
is this front arm so this front arm
angle is also it has also been as well
he's got a box shape in his arm we call
it the box because boxes are strong
right you're almost getting there I'd
say you're probably you see how your
arms getting stiff a little bit that's
we call that barring out back in the day
we didn't have the use of the technology
we have so it's just the dad or a Little
League coach saying stepping in the ball
elbow up you know get your arms extended
but now we can with the use of what we
do know the technology that we have
being able to take a big league swing
and break it down 60 frames for a second
and show them what exactly connection
means
getting on playing with the ball being
on time with the pitch means they can
visually see that which will obviously
enhance their game and it's not just
hitting and pitching during that
two-hour session there's a fitness room
as well to help round out the player a
lot of these kids are good ballplayers
and above-average ball players but
what's gonna get them to the next level
what's gonna get them on their high
school baseball team you know a college
scholarship and you know God willing
possibly get drafted one day the game
has evolved and changed drastically over
at least even the last decade or so
Mississippi - the game is faster now the
velocity of pitchers growing is on
average five to six miles an hour faster
than I was even a decade ago so with the
game constantly changing we have to stay
on top of that and use of technology now
really gives us the opportunity to be
able to really develop the kids
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excellent job
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yeah got to tell you my kids absolutely
loved it there's also a little waiting
area they have an after-school program
to the hitting Academy has a special
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