What's up guys, Coach Madden, official trainer, YouGoProBaseball.com and today I've got for
you three hitting drills you should never do.
Of course I wouldn't leave you hanging in that way I want to just show you what you
shouldn't do but i'm going to offer you some alternatives to these hitting drills then
I see done a lot which shouldn't be done and then I'll give you a three alternatives; so
three good drills, 3 bad drills, 3 good drills.
Here we go, the first hitting drill you should never do I saw this on Instagram the other
day, a guy was sitting down and had a tee out here and he's just going he was actually
doing this rapid speed which is even worse in my opinion but he was just here swinging
and hitting these balls like this.
Now I don't know if you can tell but my hands were getting out and away from my body; it
seems like a good drill because I'm working on my hands here but my hands when I'm sitting
like this, my hands are getting away from my body and I'm really working on a bad swing,
bad hand path, bad arms everything is bad in this drill.
So you never really want to do this drill.
An alternative to this is to set your hips going forward a little bit okay get a little
bit closer to the tee and you want to promote the correct hand path.
So now I'm going to be set up here I can get a little bit loaded now I can get to a good
contact point.
When I'm sitting so far back like I was before, getting out and around, I’m doing more harm
than I am good especially if I’m doing that drill in rapid speed.
Now if we slow it down and go one ball at a time I've got my hips turned in already
a little bit and now I could work on the proper contact point so you got to find that good
spot which for me is going to be right about here and then I'm just going to work on loading,
staying inside, and driving.
So similar drill we're just turning the hips in a little bit working on a load and a good
contact point thinking about line drives.
The second hitting drill you should never do I saw a couple times online and it's where
guys will drop that back knee all the way down to the ground and then work on hitting
okay.
Now I get the idea behind this drill it's to work on having that knee come down and
in because that's what you want to do in the swing but it doesn't happen like that.
You don't just drop that knee and to get to that position.
You want to drive that knee in.
So there's a big difference and this movement is working on kind of collapsing and falling
when this movement is working on driving that back knee in so here's the bad drill, I'm
gonna have to lower this down a little bit, here's the hitting drill you should never
do.
I'll show you again.
This drill is bad because you're changing your I levels you're working on collapsing
your backside she's no good all around.
The alternative to this drills to really just be conscious of your back knee and what it's
doing and think about driving it in okay really driving that back knee so it should look like
this when we're swinging I drove that back knee and I didn't collapse it.
Now when checking yourself after you swing your head does want to be over your back knee
but I drove in to get there not collapsed.
And the third hitting drill you should never do is swing off the Griffey tee.
I don't know if you guys remember the Griffey tee but it was a elongated u-shaped at a downward
angle I don't have one here because I never used it and you should never use it too if
you have one because in theory it's a good idea because you want your hands coming down
like that to the ball but what happens is we created create enough energy in your swing
you're going to get that lag and if you were to use this device you'd be smashing into
the bars that it has all the time and you would think that your swing is bad in fact
you would have a good swing so you never want to do a hitting drill where you're swinging
down on that ball chopping down on that ball.
In fact I used to play baseball with Josh Donaldson one of the best hitters in the game,
we went to Auburn University together, and he says he never does a hitting drill that
doesn't promote a good swing plane, so obviously the Griffey would not fall into this category
because we're chopping down at the ball.
A good swing plane means that we're getting in the zone early and staying there for a
while getting through that baseball so we always want to focus on having a good swing
plane no matter what hitting drill we're doing.
If you guys like this video please give me a thumbs up.
If you're a coach that used one of these three bad hitting drills and you think I'm a big
idiot, give me a thumbs down.
I know this video is going to be a little controversial because there's a lot of I see
a lot of these drills being done out there so if you if you got something to say in the
comments go ahead I'd love to talk to you there I would just never do these three hitting
drills myself were with my guys they don't make sense to me and that's what I try to
think of when I'm doing these things like Donaldson says, you know every hitting drill
that you're doing should focus on swing plane okay, should be really focusing on practicing
a good swing.
If you're working on drills that are what you should be doing.
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