What's up guys? Coach Madden yougoprobaseball.com and I'm here with Doug
Bernier again from pro baseball insider and we're gonna talk about flips, glove
flips, second base, right, do you practice this or is this
something instinctual that you do in the game tell me about it
no this is something I like to practice um because routine plays we obviously
want to be really good at making routine players we want to make it every single
time but there are times in a game where you're gonna have to make a glove flip
you're gonna have to make a spin throw a diving play or whatever and if you can
practice it in practice and work on it then once it happens in the game you at
least have an idea or a little bit of experience of you know how to complete
the play and hopefully it works a little bit smoother so obviously like you said
this is not a normal player to traditional play the players that you
practice a lot but can you give us some technique on it if there is any no there
actually is and so when you are fielding like let's say you're doing a glove flip
a lot of times it's not a routine play right you're moving on the run
everything's happening pretty fast there are a 2 2 things that helped me when
making a glove flip so it doesn't matter if I'm playing short or second kind of
the same same idea what I want to do when the balls in my glove I want to if
I'm working this way if I'm flipping the ball that way I want to feel like I'm
taking the kind of my hand right here when you call this like the palm of my
hand and I want to drive that towards my target where I'm flipping the ball so
balls in my glove I'm going this way I don't want to flip my wrist like this if
I do that the ball is gonna go straight up or over his head so feel like I'm
keeping my glove down and I'm just kind of taking the heel of my hand and
putting it in the direction of my target so that's if I'm doing this flip if the
flip is going this way sideways or like a backhand that way I want to try to
avoid really using my wrists again I want to try to keep my wrist straight
and then you can feel the ball actually work your way up to the end of the glove
and then kind of fly out from there so if you can keep your wrist
straight as you're doing it you have a lot more control once you start flipping
your wrists like this then you have no idea where the ball is gonna go so
remember underneath when you're doing this way the heel of your hand just
pointed at your target and the ball will just kind of fall out in that direction
and if you have to make one of these kind of sideways tosses with your glove
keep that wrist straight it'll give you a lot more control
interesting interesting now let me ask you this so on the underhand one are you
trying to shovel pass it almost like have it knuckle out and then on the ones
that you're throwing it sounds like you're letting it spin out yeah it's
actually not gonna knuckle out it's still gonna kind of roll out a little
bit but it just gives you a little bit more control I think this just when I
when I concentrate on the heel of my hand it kind of helps me not to use my
wrist to try to get more momentum and when I do that again it's just gonna
flip over you know the the other end fielder's head now I noticed you were
not in the in the web of the glove you were more here yeah obviously that's
probably where you're gonna be catching the ball right yeah I mean I don't know
I I like the ball in this area but sometimes I mean especially if you're on
the run there's a good chance it could be more in you know in the webbing of
your glove and that's still okay just say same concept same idea nice now when
you're doing this you obviously will just want to play with different things
right you're not going to be usually when you're feeling these balls you're
not gonna be doing grabbing it with two hands and going glove flip it's gonna be
something on the run oh you're getting it one-handed and trying to get rid of
it last second right right for sure for sure so I mean this is one of those
things you're moving at a high rate of speed you're not able to usually you're
kind of running in a way with to where you're not able to get the other hand
there so it's usually a one hand to play and you got to try to get the ball out
so it's always an awkward place sometimes you're on your belly when
you're doing it because maybe you just made a diving play and you got a throw
from here or you got to flip it with your glove so work on that stuff you
know like it's kind of fun especially at the end of the day you never know to
like as a shortstop if you are on the other side of second base and you catch
this ball and second is back over here you might have to go a behind-the-back
glove flip and I know that seems flashy at times but that might be the only way
to get the ball to second base so try it in practice see if you can do
it because if the first time you do it is in a game I guarantee you're gonna do
this one and you're gonna launch it nowhere close to where you want your
your target so work on it in practice that's a great point that's a great have
fun with it but don't get carried away you don't want to be doing glove flips
every single play the second base coach is gonna be yelling at you you're not
gonna be getting the routine stuff would the work that you need but right then
you're gonna get a thumbs down on the video and we don't want that II hope so
use the routine flowing again and use the glove flip only when needed I kind
of think of this as basketball like basketball practice you're never going
to take the same shot oh you know in a game three four five six time well maybe
you will if that's your sweet spot right but you need to be practicing all around
different ranges different distances different things that you're doing with
your body leaning back going forward exact same thing within feeling exactly
same exact thing you just want to be able to kind of expand what you can do
on the field and sometimes that involves a glove flip that's awesome guys if you
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