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Maybe it’s not the best but it was wildly effective for me. But I am curious have you tried some things that were really effective at overcoming fear?

That’s fair on too much running for medical concerns. But how would the other team feel disrespected?

Thanks for the kind words!

Good point. Here’s one of the studies I was referring too: Edgett, B. A., Bonafiglia, J. T., Baechler, B. L., Quadrilatero, J., & Gurd, B. J. (2016) This one was how sprint training (which is plyometric in nature) converts muscle fibers over 6 weeks from slow twitch to fast twitch.

Great question. So a couple things... The most common place we see this is with kids who extend their wrists too early, and don't know how to deliver the barrel late. They will often push the barrel away from their back shoulder too soon and then sweep their hands and barrel through the zone at one time vs. waiting to fire the wrists into contact. (that's one potential problem) We also might have a deceleration problem with some movements of the body. For the body to accelerate from the ground up, we need to train the athletes to rotate fast, and stop fast with each segment of the body. (super hard to explain in a comment section of a video though ;-) So we might need some declaration training And then lastly how you tell if you are getting good bat speeds in relation to hand speeds is you take your bat speed number (if you're using a blast motion sensor) and you divide it by your hand speeds. If that number is 3.2 or higher you are being pretty efficient at converting your hand speeds to bat speeds. If it's lower, you have some inefficiencies. Hope that helps!

@@chetwomach thanks. We were going to do your evaluation and program this summer but our 10u LL all stars unexpectedly over achieved and finished 3rd in Texas state tournament. That only left us with about 5 weeks before fall tournaments, we took 10 days completely off. It looks like we will have a good break from mid November to late February where we can really focus on training new methods with you without worrying about being game ready for a while. In our last bat speed tee work set she averaged 58.1 mph bat speed and 17.6mph hand speed, 3.3 ratio. We train a lot with heavy bats and with her 33/30 she average 47.8 and 16.6 for a 2.9 ratio. I’ll go back and plot the ratios over time and see how the 32/22 and 33/30 bats trend together. Is the ratio a optimal range or higher the better? Her last live pitching set she averaged 52.4 and 15.6 for a 3.3 ratio. How do we bridge this gap between live a tee?

Another good question... but anything better than 3.2 is a good transfer of hand speed to bat speed. As for briding the gap between T and live pitching the T will always be faster as the body doesn't have to make any adjustments to pitch location or speed. However we like to do all of our bat speed drills first on a T to train the body to move as fast as possible, but then we do all those same drills off a a machine throwing at game like reaction times. This is what helps us get as close as possible.

We do ask that you throw them a moving ball, as their mechanics will change from T to Front Toss, but yes, you get a free assessment when you take a 14 day trial of our online hitting membership program.

This was true for him as well. He did not want to eat this much. He had to eat when he wasn't hungry.

I get it. But if we want to help our kids get better we have to help them find a way to get the right amount of calories AND the right types. We did this by meal prepping healthy meals on Sunday evenings. We'd specifically do 1,000 calorie snacks and lunches. Chicken and rice were his go to.

While it's on the high end I think this is why some people struggle to gain. This kid was in peak puberty, growing fast, lifting and training hard 5 days a week. 3 days in the weight room and multiple other training days as well. Not everyone needs that much, but I swear to you it's what it took. It's not what I'd recommend people start with though. I recommend starting at 3,000 and if they don't gain, add 500 calories a day until they do.

thanks!

Well thanks... I'm sure I'll get the hang of shooting better videos as we go along.

I suppose technically you are right, as there's other tissues in there as well. But he got leaner body fat percentage wise as he put on those 21 lbs. And he grew an inch or two so there's some bone mass and other tissues. But it was 21 pounds of good weight not bad.

5000 calories js wild

@@stormcloud_19i got fat as shit went from 150-180 in 5 months eating 3500 cals every other day

what do you mean on any platform?

Rotational Acceleration

Yeah I need to make that more clear. Still working on my site. After I do the assessments for you I give you options to add a bat sensor after your purchase. I'll work on getting it done before.

It 100% is. I actually developed it for my oldest son... who has incredible home run power. But when I tried to share how we did it, everyone just said it was only because he was 6' 1". So when my little daughter started jacking shots we tried to reach out to the softball community instead. But it's IDENTICAL programming.

Yep, it's identical to Baseball in my opinion. The program my daughter was on was originally built from her older brother's program.

Man I'd like to hear you logic on why this is BS... cuz getting my kids to lift early was maybe the MOST important part of their athletic development?

Love it!

I would put loading in a different category personally. For me Loading happens in the 'gather' phase of the swing and before you stride forward. Still important, but the way I talk about it we do different loading movements in the 'gather' phase than we do in the stride phase (which this drill is more about the stride phase and 'launch' phase of the swing. At least for how I like to talk about it.

Please do! It's a good one

Thanks 👍

So if we're talking about how to not hit weak opposite side pop ups, I think if they can keep their shoulder closed while their hips are opening they can fix that problem. That's why I like this drill, as it works on trying to make the hands stay back AS the hips fire to fix those weak oppo hits you're concerned about.

absolutely.

Agreed

I use a Blast Motion

Thanks for watching!

So a couple things... 1. It's hard to make one video on youtube that covers everything about hitting, and address all your points. 2. You bring up great points that if we were discussing this in person I bet we would agree on. 3. I agree that good hitters often agree that they need to focus on their hands first. But, when you look at them kinematically, they do fire their hips first. 4. I think different styles of hitters and movers, do the hips first movement differently. Trout is a more stiff mover and you don't see as much hip shoulder separation, but Mookie get's LOTS of hit shoulder separation. Si they are hips first even if they aren't thinking about it. 5. I think you get around the injury issue by taking volume into consideration. Nobody would argue that plyometrics don't help runners, but doing plyometrics 3x a day would cause injuries so i think this is a volume play. (but this video is geared towards youth when I made it. 6. I think we should analyze an athlete to first find how they are moving correctly before prescribing any drill. We need to look at what they do well and what they don't and take a wholistic look. Doing one drill for everybody. Lastly, I loved your comment, truthfully! So many people just come on and bash other people versus have a discussion. You brought up a lot of points people should be asking.

I ain't reading all that

@@Unnamed_Toast well then don’t read it…

So we started as a local training facility, and are just starting to offer remote training stuff folks outside the area to share what's working with more folks, so my site isn't quite built up for that just yet. But you can buy our program where you can send in video where we can assess your athlete's swing and design a training program for them here: www.centraliabaseballacademy.com/tips (and as you're going through the checkout process, we give you options to add a bat sensor if you'd like)

Love it! It's my favorite stat for sure.

@@chetwomach we just tried this drill tonight. We alternated 2 of this and 2 regular swings for about 4 rounds before we had to go to team BP for Little League. In BP she got up to 13.1g! I was shocked when I downloaded the data. We need a new goal now for fall 12u. In the game she only got 1 pitch to hit and stroked it in the gap, only 9.7g and 49.4mph. They pitch around her mostly in this league.

Blending 2 swings with the drill and then 2 regular swings is one of my favorite strategies for helping kids transfer the feel of a drill to their game swing. Sounds like you're on the right track with her development :-)

Glad you like them! More to come!

I've been doing a lot of stopping exercises. Rotating the bag and then stopping it as quickly as possible from lots of different movements.

You bet, hope it helps!

Love to hear it! Sorry about that link, here it is: calendly.com/laceywa/30-minute-meeting-clone

Love to hear about the development! Here's a link where you can schedule a swing assessment so we can look at what she needs to help keep her development on the fast track: calendly.com/laceywa/30-minute-meeting-clone

Thanks :-)

So I don't disagree with what you're saying. But like with everything it's about perspective. For example I have 5 kids... my oldest two thought the Velocity program we have was very fun, and thrived off of watching themselves get better each week. And that development turned into more success on the field and field an even bigger passion for the game. That didn't happen with my 3rd child so we kept it fun for her and look to other areas of life to teach her work ethic in that she's more passionate about. Also, I was a kid who grew up with a Father who wouldn't play catch with him. So I through wrong, even though I eventually played Division I baseball, and I ended up having arm health issues due to improper throwing mechanics. I didn't want my kids limited by those same arm injuries so I wanted them on a program that taught them how to throw right. And honestly at the youth level that's what the velo program should be. It's more focused on throwing harder by throwing correctly. So I'm with you for most kids, but for those who love the game and weren't born with the natural ability to throw hard, I disagree... as long as we're being smart and doing it safely (but that's a separate topic)

Thanks, me too!

Doing this in basement with second kid. It's working fine.

Complete BS

Baseball-specific? Oh, God no.

Did you read the article that I linked to?

@@BoJack32 So I didn't think I mentioned Baseball Specific movements in this video. But if I missed it in this video, or I was talking about them somewhere else, what I was talking about is the throwing motion being a movement pattern that is VERY hard to develop post puberty, and one of the movements kids need to learn right early. It's not a movement learned in the weight room though. Some aspects of quality movement like scapular mobility and pulling patterns and T spine flexibility are more important for throwers (obviously not just baseball but any sport that throws). And other movement patterns like torso deceleration can be enhanced in the weight room and are pretty rotational based sports specific. Did that address what you disagreed with, or were you referring to something else?

I think it should be 4-5 days a week.

No seattle just yet. I am sure there are some good guys up that way. I just don't personally have any experience with them.

It's better than nothing, but I think their is more benefit out of practicing off of a moving ball. If you don't have a cage, working with some sand filled hitting balls and doing front flip drills I think have more benefit than just hitting off a T if you can find someone to throw to you.

it will perfect their swing as long as he/she knows the correct swing to practice. but there is no substitute for live at bats. And if you can find a cage at a field for free to hit in that is great, start with tee then transition to soft toss then live ab’s so they blend the swing off tee to actual live pitch

Get a mini wiffle ball pitching machine