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I'm assistant coaching my son's baseball team this year. I find it hard to identify and correct batting mechanics issues with the kids on my team (9 to 11 year olds). I've watched this video a couple of times, and it will be very helpful this season. Thank you.
I will paint you a picture of my swing. My swing is not technically this good. But a few cheat moves I've been using my whole life is I swing with my big muscles. Gleutes , abs, shoulders. Quick hands. Good balance. I explode on the ball with loose arms but strong middle. I've never had a real coach so I tried to copy ken Griffeys swing. I always try to feel my weight into the earth and make sure that my weight transfers from back to front at impact. I'm 6'2 220 which helps. I am the most consistent homerun hitter in my league. Not to be arrogant. My misses are hard hit balls for the most part. The ultimate cheat code I have found to power was once everything is in place is exaggerating the hip turn without flailing like an idiot of course. Watch bryce Harpers swing he does a loading hip movement , then he explodes with the hips. Just 30 years of hitting put into writing. You are great at explaining and teaching . Ty! I can't wait for summer.
And I never work at everything all at once. I work at one thing at a time. And then once game time hits I turn off my brain and my body does it automatically. I just wish I had been coached at a young age. It would ofshortened the learning years. My 2 cents
I have been playing all my life and you helped me hit doubles and it just feels great I only could do it because you inspired me and probably every one your just awesome
Thank you coach Justin so much I have been struggling with hitting since I was 8 (now 13) you’ve helped me learn so much and now I’m consistently hitting doubles and triples
That was an awesome video. I think launch position is so important and what you said about knob facing the catcher (CRUCIAL). I would add that focusing on your elbow power falls in the same boat... remember MLB players always push w/ extension from their elbows in most cases. I'm going to share with my 10U group! Thanks
Really good, especially from 9:30 onward. Can relate to that, “swatting” motion rather than extension in that last one. My son tries too hard to make contact by flattening out the bat and checking himself at the point of contact which leads to, “pop ups” all the time.
I noticed during a tournament game once when I was in the box that I was stiff as a board, them I loosed up just before the pitch was thrown and I got a double
Damon Lynn in softball it seems like you would want your bat to be much flatter than in baseball since the ball is basically coming from your waist level
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Hi! Today whas my first day of Baseball! I love it!! I wanted to learn some tips and tricks, to become as good as you! This video realy helped me to aviod my mistakes! Thank you for making this video 💖
This is great advice! Love the explanation on each mistake as well. Can you tell me a little more about where you want to make contact within the swing? Meaning do you want to contact before, middle, or out in front of plate? My thinking is that your swing is fastest early on (so before the front of plate), and it gradually slows down as you follow through the swing completely. If there was a way to measure swing speed from a bird's eye view for example, would you see the swing gradually get slower as the bat passes the right shoulder? Thanks again, great stuff here. Sharing with my team now
You should be making contact at about your front foot. Don’t base it off the plate, because everyone stands in different places when they get to. The plate
As far as bat angle I was always taught it should essentially split your helmet in half at that point in your stride which is another way to think about it. You essentially make this point with the knob being pointed towards the catcher.
For any ball player from 10 to 14 years old take this guys advice like gold. I was always a tad undersized buy was always a good hitter. Hit around .400 to .450 throughout highschool with 10 plus homers my junior and senior year and im a whopping 5 7 170. Ai loved hitting though. My fav players were artists at the plates like Manny Ramirez..miguel cabrera pujols.etc. so i studied hitting and studied and studied more. I teach hitting and get most of the dialogue from this channel because im a visual teacher. And this guy explains things very well. At 5 foot 7 and 170 lbs i had to utlize every ounce of weight and torque to hit like i wanted but also had to stay within myself to be able to minimize swings anf misses and go the other way with pop er way with pop. Essentially without realizing it i developed a swing where i created a rubber band effect with my stride. Load and swing. I taught myself how to hit my looking at my favite hitters and coping them. I would literally do 1000 reps simple things like a stride. No swing. Just a stride. Until it became muscle memory. I wish there was a channel like this when i was 14. Knowing me. I wouldnt have watched it because i was dead set on learning everything about hitting from slow mo manny swings. But it would have been my loss. U can develop a beautiful cut following this dudes advice.. So long as u r willing to do the reps and are atleast a little athletic. U domt have to be the biggest guy on ur team or lift the most weight to hit lasers. The ball coming in and Ur body can supply plenty of power to all fields if u use it correctly.
I've seen several of your videos and I absolutely appreciate your thoroughness and enthusiasm for ALL aspects of the game! Myself, I'm getting back into playing and practicing after several years of adulthood and am soaking up as much as I can. Thank you so much!
Good morning coach Justin. Thank you for your help over the last 3 yrs your videos have helped me make my son a homerun hitting All-Star at 11 yrs old. Keep it up.
Usually when I come up to bat, I stay out of the box for like ten seconds, take a couple of swings, get back into the box, dig in with my back foot then wave my bat back and forth in front of me like 3 times, then step, stride towards the ball, and go through the ball. Thanks Coach Justin your videos are really helpful. Also, do you think those are good steps?
I’m not coach Justin but I’ll tell you that having a routine before going up to the plate is a good thing as long as your using the time to focus and not trying to look cool.
one way to hit the ball really hard is to take a step forward when your about to hit the ball and you want your back foot to be facing towards the mound at the end of the swing
I bought a repetitive motion program as a hobby job/business. In watching many, many clips of kids batting (at traveling level) I found it interesting that the kids were hitting the ball out in front of them or not at all. Balls that got even or behind their feet were either fouled off or missed (in the game). Kids did not turn their head and follow the ball to the bat (particularly when they did not swing) to It would seem that addressing this issue is important.
Bro I tried out the knob toward the pitcher today in BP before I watch the video and everything I hit was a pop up straight up so this guy knows what he's talking about
I was in a stump very recently and me and you have the exact same problem. So this is what I did. The main problems why you can’t get around fast enough is for many reasons 1 to big of a stride. Try sound a barely lift up your door and then unload. The best reason is that your hands are dropping. My dad helped me by keeping my bar on the back of my bat right until the pitch is to me. If you want so more advise or more depth call me 8157188891. I can also help with pitching. My dad went D1 in baseball as a pitcher but he was also batting 3rd the whole time there. Just call me but respond to me first so I know it’s you!
Hey I’m really struggling in hitting I play third shortstop pitcher and catcher And my swing is fine but I’m at the very back of the lineup please help me! If you can send me any info of yours that would help!
Will Martiny I know your pain that happend last year until I got plate discipline....REALLY work on plate discipline and also wait for your pitch and when you swing, whatch the ball
I've been watching your videos for a while now , I play softball , and I'm just wondering if I should strictly be looking at softball videos for specific hitting tips or is it fine to watch baseball
I'm just now seeing this because I'm trying to get ideas for my TH-cam channel MrCoachDJ. I definitely decided to do this when I was about 10 or so. I know everyone hates him but, I adopted Barry Bonds' swing because I realized he had an almost perfect timing stance.
You guys have a lot of great information. I focus more on High School and below. Especially the Middle School level. Trying to explain more of the "why" we do this stuff.
Yo thx for really helpful video. I really want to share this video with korean players. So, if u don't mind, can i upload the korean lyric version on my channel? I promise not gonna make profits, and will indicate the source.
Power can be defeated by bad mechanics of the upper body up to the hands. So even if we have perfect lower body, we still need the upper body to perform mechanically to transfer the power from our lower body through our upper body into the bat. If our upper body is not correct, we lose power. I teach he kids that hitting is like a dance, and the pitcher is the girl or guy you are dancing with. When they move, we mirror their move.
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I'm assistant coaching my son's baseball team this year. I find it hard to identify and correct batting mechanics issues with the kids on my team (9 to 11 year olds). I've watched this video a couple of times, and it will be very helpful this season. Thank you.
Very helpful
I will paint you a picture of my swing. My swing is not technically this good. But a few cheat moves I've been using my whole life is I swing with my big muscles. Gleutes , abs, shoulders. Quick hands. Good balance. I explode on the ball with loose arms but strong middle. I've never had a real coach so I tried to copy ken Griffeys swing. I always try to feel my weight into the earth and make sure that my weight transfers from back to front at impact. I'm 6'2 220 which helps. I am the most consistent homerun hitter in my league. Not to be arrogant. My misses are hard hit balls for the most part. The ultimate cheat code I have found to power was once everything is in place is exaggerating the hip turn without flailing like an idiot of course. Watch bryce Harpers swing he does a loading hip movement , then he explodes with the hips. Just 30 years of hitting put into writing. You are great at explaining and teaching . Ty! I can't wait for summer.
And I never work at everything all at once. I work at one thing at a time. And then once game time hits I turn off my brain and my body does it automatically. I just wish I had been coached at a young age. It would ofshortened the learning years. My 2 cents
I actually got a good hit today off of this. It was a base on error but it was hit really hard.
I have been playing all my life and you helped me hit doubles and it just feels great I only could do it because you inspired me and probably every one your just awesome
Same he's awesome
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Any tips for someone just starting at 14u
Thank you coach Justin so much I have been struggling with hitting since I was 8 (now 13) you’ve helped me learn so much and now I’m consistently hitting doubles and triples
As a TeeBall, single A coach with essentially zero baseball experience (or prior interest... to be honest), these videos are AMAZING! Thank you!!!
That was an awesome video. I think launch position is so important and what you said about knob facing the catcher (CRUCIAL). I would add that focusing on your elbow power falls in the same boat... remember MLB players always push w/ extension from their elbows in most cases. I'm going to share with my 10U group! Thanks
This helped me do much
So much
Really good, especially from 9:30 onward. Can relate to that, “swatting” motion rather than extension in that last one. My son tries too hard to make contact by flattening out the bat and checking himself at the point of contact which leads to, “pop ups” all the time.
5:25 serious butterfly action
I noticed during a tournament game once when I was in the box that I was stiff as a board, them I loosed up just before the pitch was thrown and I got a double
Jordan adams because you still loosened up at least
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My son has been doing everything on that list… thanks a lot, you really helped him!
I may play softball but this still helps a lot thanks I needed this
Softball is a bit different in hitting
Prince its not different. Yes ball comes from different angles but you should attack it the same.
Damon Lynn in softball it seems like you would want your bat to be much flatter than in baseball since the ball is basically coming from your waist level
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@@jesussavesministries3558 yes that s true but i wouldn’t recommend bringing people to christ in that way, maybe in a nicer way rather than forcing christ on them but lets pray that they find Christ and that a freind or someone brings them to christ if they aren’t already. 👍
lol the dog in the background at 12:39 so cute!
Helpful with my son and daughter her first time playing on a teami
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POV: You are here cause you striked out 3 times your last game
I've been watching tons of batting coaches on line, this guy is by far the best!
Hi! Today whas my first day of Baseball! I love it!! I wanted to learn some tips and tricks, to become as good as you! This video realy helped me to aviod my mistakes! Thank you for making this video 💖
This is great advice! Love the explanation on each mistake as well. Can you tell me a little more about where you want to make contact within the swing? Meaning do you want to contact before, middle, or out in front of plate? My thinking is that your swing is fastest early on (so before the front of plate), and it gradually slows down as you follow through the swing completely. If there was a way to measure swing speed from a bird's eye view for example, would you see the swing gradually get slower as the bat passes the right shoulder? Thanks again, great stuff here. Sharing with my team now
You should be making contact at about your front foot. Don’t base it off the plate, because everyone stands in different places when they get to. The plate
Hey this helps a lot coach Justin 💪🏼
Glad to hear that, Blake! Thanks for tuning in man!
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As far as bat angle I was always taught it should essentially split your helmet in half at that point in your stride which is another way to think about it. You essentially make this point with the knob being pointed towards the catcher.
For any ball player from 10 to 14 years old take this guys advice like gold. I was always a tad undersized buy was always a good hitter. Hit around .400 to .450 throughout highschool with 10 plus homers my junior and senior year and im a whopping 5 7 170. Ai loved hitting though. My fav players were artists at the plates like Manny Ramirez..miguel cabrera pujols.etc. so i studied hitting and studied and studied more. I teach hitting and get most of the dialogue from this channel because im a visual teacher. And this guy explains things very well. At 5 foot 7 and 170 lbs i had to utlize every ounce of weight and torque to hit like i wanted but also had to stay within myself to be able to minimize swings anf misses and go the other way with pop er way with pop. Essentially without realizing it i developed a swing where i created a rubber band effect with my stride. Load and swing. I taught myself how to hit my looking at my favite hitters and coping them. I would literally do 1000 reps simple things like a stride. No swing. Just a stride. Until it became muscle memory. I wish there was a channel like this when i was 14. Knowing me. I wouldnt have watched it because i was dead set on learning everything about hitting from slow mo manny swings. But it would have been my loss. U can develop a beautiful cut following this dudes advice.. So long as u r willing to do the reps and are atleast a little athletic. U domt have to be the biggest guy on ur team or lift the most weight to hit lasers. The ball coming in and Ur body can supply plenty of power to all fields if u use it correctly.
Great video 👌 You explain everything really well.
Thank you Justin for those hitting mistakes that I need to avoid
Hey man this video has helped me a lot a lot. My hitting has been bad for about 2 years so thanks
Great tutorial video - thanks for sharing these amazing tips!
What bat r u using in the video
Thanks man you are helping me be a better player and batter
I've seen several of your videos and I absolutely appreciate your thoroughness and enthusiasm for ALL aspects of the game! Myself, I'm getting back into playing and practicing after several years of adulthood and am soaking up as much as I can. Thank you so much!
Really helpful keep it up
Love these videos. My 14 year old son gets a lot of useful advice
Good morning coach Justin. Thank you for your help over the last 3 yrs your videos have helped me make my son a homerun hitting All-Star at 11 yrs old. Keep it up.
This really helped me thanks
Great video. My son 7 years old needs some pointers. These are some great tips.
Thanks now im the best player on my team
Great video thank you
Hey coach I haven’t played in a year or two and I’m getting back into baseball any tips for coming back?
Yo exactly the same as me!
Usually when I come up to bat, I stay out of the box for like ten seconds, take a couple of swings, get back into the box, dig in with my back foot then wave my bat back and forth in front of me like 3 times, then step, stride towards the ball, and go through the ball. Thanks Coach Justin your videos are really helpful. Also, do you think those are good steps?
I’m not coach Justin but I’ll tell you that having a routine before going up to the plate is a good thing as long as your using the time to focus and not trying to look cool.
Yeah
Nice advice
Love your videos.. very helpful.. thanks
Tips are so help I become a much better batter and overall I have become a better baseball player
This guys knows a lot about hitting. Very good tips!
Love it.....it's exactly what i teach Great job.. easy to understand
Thank u for helping me I would always stand still and be scard and now I got it thank u so much⚾️
one of my biggest problems is I don’t use my legs very much so I don’t get any power
one way to hit the ball really hard is to take a step forward when your about to hit the ball and you want your back foot to be facing towards the mound at the end of the swing
Put your power leg over your other leg
1 use weight shift
2 be buff af like Pujols and stanton
There are 2 orthodox approaches
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Awesome video!!! Thanks
I have a game today and hoping this will help
I bought a repetitive motion program as a hobby job/business. In watching many, many clips of kids batting (at traveling level) I found it interesting that the kids were hitting the ball out in front of them or not at all. Balls that got even or behind their feet were either fouled off or missed (in the game). Kids did not turn their head and follow the ball to the bat (particularly when they did not swing) to It would seem that addressing this issue is important.
this video got me into the little leagues :D tank you so much im a new sub now
Good info here!!!
Bro I tried out the knob toward the pitcher today in BP before I watch the video and everything I hit was a pop up straight up so this guy knows what he's talking about
At first i thought the thumbnail said five mistakes hitler made.
I think i was exposed to radiation for too long.
what should i do, i cant get my swing around fast enough and my stance is stiff
I was in a stump very recently and me and you have the exact same problem. So this is what I did. The main problems why you can’t get around fast enough is for many reasons 1 to big of a stride. Try sound a barely lift up your door and then unload. The best reason is that your hands are dropping. My dad helped me by keeping my bar on the back of my bat right until the pitch is to me. If you want so more advise or more depth call me 8157188891. I can also help with pitching. My dad went D1 in baseball as a pitcher but he was also batting 3rd the whole time there. Just call me but respond to me first so I know it’s you!
I have my first ALL STAR practice tonight for summer ball and I’m gonna be Shohei Otohni, Mike Trouk and Hank Aaron all in one
Love your vids, they help me a lot. I got out of a slump and gained power because of your video's.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that!
Hey I’m really struggling in hitting I play third shortstop pitcher and catcher And my swing is fine but I’m at the very back of the lineup please help me! If you can send me any info of yours that would help!
Will Martiny I know your pain that happend last year until I got plate discipline....REALLY work on plate discipline and also wait for your pitch and when you swing, whatch the ball
Now I am 5th in the order and in three games have walked 4 times an I so far have gotten some nice hits and a couple RBIs, and it only the beginning
I also play the same positions as you
Thank you for this!
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Save it for church
This help a lot
This is helping my batting because I know the mistakes I make
Great vids
Nice video coach justin will for sure use this
ive been playing baseball for a long time my team always goes to the all stars i showed my team this and we needed this THANKS!
I've been watching your videos for a while now , I play softball , and I'm just wondering if I should strictly be looking at softball videos for specific hitting tips or is it fine to watch baseball
Thanks!
Great Video J, way to keep it short and to the point.
This helped my son a lot. (:
Thank you
I'm just now seeing this because I'm trying to get ideas for my TH-cam channel MrCoachDJ. I definitely decided to do this when I was about 10 or so. I know everyone hates him but, I adopted Barry Bonds' swing because I realized he had an almost perfect timing stance.
You guys have a lot of great information. I focus more on High School and below. Especially the Middle School level. Trying to explain more of the "why" we do this stuff.
Thx g
Thank you so much for this
Great Vid
This really helps because my 1st game starts on the 11th of March
Did your team win?
Yo thx for really helpful video.
I really want to share this video with korean players.
So, if u don't mind, can i upload the korean lyric version on my channel?
I promise not gonna make profits, and will indicate the source.
Thanks bro
Thanks🙏🔥
Thank you I have a game tomorrow
I loved you picked two people.... Donaldson and bautisya. Bit who love to strike out xd
thank you so much i almost hit a home run tonight i normal hit 1 basers
Nice video, earned a like and sub.
Great video - it's a lot of information, but very well explained!
Very helpful
Wish TH-cam existed when I was in Little League. Learned more from a 10 minute video than I ever did as a kid.
Thank you for helping me
😊
Helping
I knew what i was doing wrong I went from batting 9th to batting 4th in the lineup my stride was way to short I barely even picked my foot up
Very helpful, everyone should subscribe
Love your videos! Does the swing mechanics in this video apply to slow pitch softball with arc?
I like this video bro
I’m a really good fielder but I’m a terrible batter, I can never make contact with the ball. This helped me
Thanks so much we won our game the score was 18 to 5
This was so helpful I had 2 of them and I fixed them and now I hit home runs
What causes your back shoulder to go doen
i am 9 playing travelball and its helping me alot
I have a problem I don’t feel comfortable when I’m up to bat it never looks like a strike I just keep striking out
I keep rewatching this so I don’t forget the steps really needed this
I’m ten and I just hit my first home run thank you
Good job
Great job I hit my first last year when I was 11 now I'm 13 and I have hit 7 from watching his videos
Nice job dude
I LOVE THIS
Ive been playing for 8 years and have pitched for 5 or 6 but csnt hit now that pitches are getting fsster and i cant find the ball
I took a shot for every time he said “As still as a statue”. Am currently dying of alcohol poisoning
Power can be defeated by bad mechanics of the upper body up to the hands. So even if we have perfect lower body, we still need the upper body to perform mechanically to transfer the power from our lower body through our upper body into the bat. If our upper body is not correct, we lose power.
I teach he kids that hitting is like a dance, and the pitcher is the girl or guy you are dancing with. When they move, we mirror their move.
We are going to work on these big mistakes but can I send you video of my youngest sons swing?
I need help with my swing I have a big hole small hole small ptomlom