What's up guys, Coach Madden, official trainer YouGoProBaseball.com and today I've got for
you four hitting tips that you must follow if you want to skyrocket your batting average
this season.
Now when it comes to batting average I know a lot more goes into it than just four things.
So I'm going to be honest with you, it's not all about batting average, in fact as a coach
I would rather you focus on hard contact more than you do your batting average, but everybody
wants to increase their batting average so whether we're talking about batting average
or hard contact; these four tips are a must when it comes to hitting.
The first thing is you have to have a routine, all the great hitters have a good routine
when they're hitting and this is a pre-at-bat routine, a pregame routine, routine in general
having your routine it's going to be different from every player is great.
But what I'm going to talk about today, that's tip number one first is having a routine,
and the other three tips I'm going to talk about, I'm going to show you a pre-at-bat
routine.
So, for number 2, tip number two, when you're in the hole right, first thing you want to
do walk over get your bat, when you grab your bat you want to stand tall okay, you want
to stand tall have your chin up and you want to take a deep breath.
You know put your batting gloves on if you have batting gloves, grip this bat and think
about what you're going to do in the at-bat okay, you're putting yourself into a good
state of mind.
If you come up here and you're like "man I'm so tired" and you grab your bat and you're
like "oh alright hope I'll get a hit this at-bat", you're probably not going to have
a great at-bat right, but if you go over here when you go to grab that bat, you take a deep
breath and you're like "I'm the man.
I'm about to crush this baseball", grab this bat, "here we go we bout to crush it right
now", you're going to have a much better chance of hitting that baseball when you get up there,
you're putting yourself into a good state, a good state of mind, a good state of energy
and you're ready to go okay.
Then for tip number three when you're going to the on-deck circle, so you've got your
bat when you're walking out here, also you want to walk like you're the man okay.
You don't be walking, dragging the bat behind with your shoulders down, you want to walk
like yeah I'm about to crush this ball, I’m the man about to get up here and get a hit.
You know walking tall, walking with a little bit of swag, knowing what you're going to
do alright.
So now you're on the on-deck circle and you're getting ready to hit okay.
What you want to do obviously if you can time up this pitcher a little bit, take a few swings
on his pitches getting timed up, but they you also want to visualize.
If you get the chance, visualize your best hit ever.
So let's say you hit a home run one time, or you hit a triple smashed against the fence.
I want you to visualize in your head, you can keep your eyes open when you do this,
but visualize that hit that you had, remember it, see it in your mind while you're swinging
and swing off of that pitch.
If you are very good at visualizing, you may find yourself feeling good after you take
your warm-up swings like you just crush that ball again, you're reliving it, your mind
doesn't know what is real and what isn't okay.
So you kind of trick your body, again you're putting yourself into a state of mind, a state
of energy to where you're going to have a lot more success.
So visualize your best hit ever and those are the swings I want you to take when you're
on the on-deck circle.
Now what do you do when you get on into the batter's box this is tip number four.
You want to come in here again you already know in your mind and in your heart that you're
going to beat this guy.
You have to, I don't care if this guy is going to be a pro baseball player one day, I don't
care who, I don't care if he already is, I don't care if Clayton Kershaw is on the mound.
If I get in this batter's box, I'm telling myself I’m going to beat Clayton Kershaw
you know what I'm saying, you have to, otherwise what are you doing here right.
We're competitors we want to win, so you have to tell yourself I'm going to beat this guy,
you have to believe that you can beat this guy no matter who it is out there okay.
So once you get here; you have to know, you have to tell yourself, positive self-talk
okay.
First of all, the first thing is you have to know the situation okay ,whatever the situation
is you have to know what you're doing.
Second thing is before you get in this batter's box take another deep breath all the way down
into your stomach, notice when I took that deep breath I didn't just stand here like
this; no, I stood tall, chest out, blew it out hard okay.
You'll see a lot of pro players do that when they're up here okay, they do it for a reason
because it works, so you have to do this.
Now when you step in here, all those hitting mechanics, all those hitting drills all those
things you've been working on forget about it okay.
What you got to do is see the ball and hit the ball, don't worry about anything else
you get in here you already know your situation you looked at it, you're confident you believe
you can beat this guy in your mind and in your heart.
Now all you got to do is see the ball and hit the ball again don't worry about batting
average, worry about hard contact and you're going to have a lot more success if you do
these four things.
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So if you put these four tips into play and also those three tips you're going to have
a deadly combination when you get up there to bat you're going to have a lot of success.
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