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The best hitters can get away with things 10 year old kids learning how to swing can’t. “Teachers/coaches” like you are the reason hitting is being taught wrong.
It's not people denying it. It's just they don't forcefully snap it back. As long as everything is working correctly and you don't do anything weird with your arms you shouldn't have to snap it back. It'll just naturally slot itself/turn back
My son (8) was having a tough time hitting this year. I found your videos about 2-3 weeks ago and have been working with him since. He makes contact with this technique each AB and gets on base at least 3 times now a game. It was a GAME CHANGER for him. Thank you for making this easy to teach him :)
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Relating to golf, obviously there are tried and tested methods that are the groundwork for great production at the tee box/ plate, but swing your swing. If you have the ugliest swing but you’re able to hit .300 or under par, do what you do.
@@ryanbacon4070 sure.. For golf. In baseball pitchers will pitch to holes in Ur swing so u want the barrel in the zone for as long as possible to give urself the best chance
@@HumanGorillaHormoneyeah for real, like the golf ball isn’t moving… the golf ball isn’t going to exploit your weaknesses lol. golf and baseball are incomparable imo.
Damn man that seriously sucks, my coaches were amazing, I guess you really do just get lucky or don’t, but try to inspire better coaching in your kids if they ever play! And if you ever have any!
Hell Matt Antonelli talks about going all the way thru High school, College, Minor and even the freaking Major leagues and never hearing anything about how to swing properly.
I played 15 years including having 8 guys drafted from my high school teams and later playing div 1 and this was never taught. Basically if u could hit.... Nobody cared to mess with Ur setup or swing. Same with pitching for that matter. The one guy who had legit instruction went 3rd overall out of high school.
I tried it at my facility today. The swings prior to trying this method my exit velo off the tee was between 65-70. The first two I tried doing this method my exit velo was 79.3….this is the real deal!
I hit ASA softballs off the tee anywhere from 92 to 106 mph. I hit USSSA high compression balls off the tee anywhere from 96 to 115 mph. I played baseball in high school and for a USMC team at Cherry Pt. I hit the baseball a little harder in baseball. In both sports, power is generated through bat lag. This technique is combining getting the bat on plane with the pitch while introducing bat lag, but most importantly in an efficient timing mechanic for the fast pitches I'm baseball. Softball swing is a more upright stance and more emphasis on bat lag combined with rotational mechanics to hit the long ball.
I don’t know who you are or where you came from but you mastered the swing. Compactness, “launch angle,” firm front side with total back hip rotation, you figured it out
@John Smith he spent years upon years exactly copying Barry Bonds’ swing to teach his son. He learned all about the anatomy of a perfect swing, and taught it to others
@@OffCourtProductionshe got a bad shoulder injury that messed with his swing he had a good season after seeing teacherman it’s just tough for him because he has nagging injuries that make it painful to swing
People seem to think the bat should be parallel to the ground through the zone, but it doesn't need to be. It only needs to be perpendicular to the pitch to maximize area of the bat through the zone. This technique seems to keep the bat perpendicular to the pitch while maximizing biomechanical efficiency.
And with a perfectly flat swing the margin for error is a lot smaller in terms of hitting home runs, it seems. If you don't hit the ball below dead center you're hitting a grounder. Now with a more golf-like swing, with the proper swing timing, you're going to basically always be 'scooping' the ball instead, sending it into the air far more often.
I see a lot of baseball tips and wish I had them when I was a kid. But at the same time, I don’t because these videos don’t mean anything if you don’t really understand hitting, why you’re doing things and how they are supposed to feel when you do them correctly. That’s why it’s good to find a batting coach that can explain things in a way that you understand, because there are millions of different coaches and dads with different approaches
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I agree. I’ve seen videos going around of this coach saying that you should flip the barrel downward on your backswing and have the knob upward as you’re bringing your hands around. I find that to be nonsense and completely unuseful. I don’t see that technique in AJs swings and it stinks of some BS grifter guru nonsense. If the dude is so good at coaching MLB hitters on how to hit why isn’t that his job. Why is he trying to promote himself and his program to people who don’t know how to hit.
I think it covers more vertical surface area. Having the bat parallel to the ground allows you to catch balls that are going side to side but not up and down. Much more likely to catch a curveball or a ball that's sinking or rising with a bat that's more perpendicular to the ground. Not completely perpendicular cuz that would be a golf swing but something a little more like Ken Griffey Jr if you know what I mean.
It’s just dawned on me how similar this swing technique looks like a cricketer swinging their bat. It seems that this is just the correct way to bat a thrown ball no matter the sport.
Well, that's because the wicket is at ground level so you're going to see a much more golf-like swing for sure. But either way, the more you can get under the ball with power the more likely you're going to be driving home runs and not line drives so it makes sense why you'd want to hit this way.
Of course the barrels path drops down on a low/inside pitch. swing path changes based on strike zone recognition. Now try this same swing path on an elevated fastball.. ..ie A high / outside fastball in the strike zone...good luck creating this swing path... scam.. and after all this.. the hitter still needs more important skills.. balance, pitch recognition, strike zone discipline.. leading people to think they will become mlb ready if they snap their barrel back and down creating an upper cut is a scam
The wrist doesn’t snap. The barrel is turning into the ball while being connected at contact, allowing rotation to finish. Trout’s swing finished rotation using his bottom hand while Judges’ swing didn’t finish rotation. A check swing is not something to try and replicate.
These people saying there technique is bad, there’s a reason they’re the ones that we are watching on our phones and your sitting in your room complaining.
Do you wanna learn how to swing like this? (Swing, not hit lol) You stand in front of a fence and you place the knob of the bat into your belly and the tip of the barrel against the fence. That's all the room you need. You swing the bat within that zone and it forces your hips to rotate before your arms can come thru...and when they do, they are in perfect extension. It's easier than you think it may be and it compacts everything in your swing..like wearing a brace. I learned this in HS 25 years ago from a PRO instructor and I still have the sweetest swing..(way less power than a pro tho lol) Try it..trust me..I promise!
Be careful with that drill...it can fix "casting" and help stay inside the ball but can also cause ya to "drag knob of bat" around ya along with barrel and slice worse than a golfer! Make sure ya following is OUT toward pitcher the roll the top hand...and NOT staying palm up/palm down to long and being so rotational! Edit to add: Will also cause back albow to get ahead of hands and bad bat lag...to were ya do pull pff and around to not cast and hit the fence!
I learned the same drill decades ago, also. Agree that this drill is mostly corrective. You shouldn't do this for daily reps, or else it could imbalance your swing into a slice. It's what I teach kids when I see ugly casting/looping swings.
It’s funny when baseball players say their swing doesn’t translate to golf. If you swing inside like this, it transitions perfectly. Bad form in baseball is the same bad form you see in golf a lot. Over extended and early releases.
@Raisa Cajuso except they don’t hit off their back leg. If a hitter is on his back toe with pressure into his front heel how is that hitting off the back leg? True that barrel is more vertical/tilted on lower pitches but the higher the pitch the less vertical or another way to say it less tilted. Waist high pitches the barrel is typically -25 degrees below the hands. One video doesn’t make proof of what a swing does.
@@rjlovell1 what most people do not realize about this technique, including the guy teaching it, it’s missing so many important factors to make it actually work. You are 100% correct about the weight in the front foot. For this swing your weight needs to be on your front foot, your hips need to be hinged, and your hands need to be on the same plane as your shoulders while the hips plane is disconnected and leading. This dude teaches 50% of the mechanics for this type of swing and tells people to swing up and spin out but people eat it up. It’s so disappointing
I agree with this only if you're a power hitter which majority are not. If you are not a power hitter and use the wall technique it will only lead to fly balls. Just like anything in this world, there is no one rule that applys to everyone because we are all different hince the phrase there's more than one way to skin a cat. People have to find the method that works for them specifically and because hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports there's going to be a variety of different ways to hit a ball. Your swing is like your finger print or a snowflake or a raindrop. Sure they may look the same but there's no two that are exactly alike. I would say to all patents or hitting instructors to teach these kids to keep their eye on the ball which is absolutely thee most important part of hitting other than that I would say let their swing develop naturally with occasional tweaks but as a player myself I know if you're not comfortable at the plate and you don't see that ball off the bat it doesn't matter what type of mechanics you were taught. I've tried so many different techniques and what works for me is swinging down on the ball. It counteracts the ball coming down from a higher than your hands angle and allows me to get more barell to ball due to physics. With the wall method you will indeed hit the ball in the air but if your not a power hitter that's no better than a ground out. Baseball is a game if stats and you're already the underdog because of all the positions in the field. You do not want to hit the ball in the air cuz it makes the odds worse the ball will he caught. If you hit line drives you have a better chance of getting hits and the homeruns and extra baggers will come naturally. But unless your being paid millions of dollars to hit homeruns your objective at the plate should be base hits and the probability of a ball being caught will decrease. According to physics the ball is going downward from the pitchers hand to the batter and if you want to square it up between two round objects of a bat and a ball, you are much better off swinging down for more barell contact. This is the fact of physics. #realitycheck
All that Judge check swing shows is what happens when you start rotating and stop. Their bat moves rearward because they don't push their hands. It's really simple.
I call it the point of contact drill. I've taught it for almost 20 years to hitters I've worked with. When you understand how to do it, you increase squaring up the ball and power. This what Judge is doing make you a high average hitter as well as a power hitter. Master it!!!
i use this technique in slow pitch softball. Altho i swing down to keep my swing level. i went from a single base hitter to a double triple and home run hitter over the course of a season. this works and if you apply it to your natural swing and the game you are playing you will 100% see improvements. i have also uped my batting avrage 100 points in mens Baseball league as well
People act like there's only 1 way of batting. It's just like any sport, there are multiple ways to teach athletes but just because a coach prefers 1 method, it does not mean that that's the best method for EVERY athlete
Judge just hit his 58th homerun and someone is commenting back on a video misunderstanding what this guy has done with the baseball swing. This is iconic and I'm happy for him and his student.
This technique is great. However I’ve noticed when these “hitters” go into a slump with the snap style swing they tend to be non existent at the plate for a series or two.
They are figuratively snapping the barrel back, in reality they are throwing their elbow, and driving the knob, creating whip in the swing, no body actually will whip the barrel back, all the footage of judge in the on deck circle is of him giving himself a queue to whip the bat and drive his elbow
Wanna know how to snap swing? Throw the knob of your bat at the ball. Wanna know how to power swing? Do the same, all while keeping your weight on your back foot, knuckles aligned, bottom wrist cocked, arm/bat angle held at 90, small load, and power load your back leg by flexing everything and as soon as your back leg turns you focus and put all your power in that back leg. Instant home run, try it.
Those of you defending judge have literally zero knowledge of baseball. Judge in his career so far has 1004 strike outs to 532 walks. That's absolutely inexcusable. He's also hitting for an average of 282. For someone who hasn't played that long, that's not good.
Lol Judge will be a first ballot HOFer. Judge currently has a career .284 avg with 234 homeruns, 530 RBI, 567 runs scored, 501 walks, a .395 OBP and a .586 SLG with two 50+ homer seasons. 1 MVP, ROTY and was robbed of a 2nd MVP. Wilson Defensive player of the year last year. Trout through 50 more games than Judge (his first 6 seasons) had a .306 avg, 168 homeruns, 497 RBI, 600 runs, 477 walks, a .405 OBP, .557 SLG. 2 MVPs and a ROTY. 0 gold gloves. Doesn't look 100x better to me buddy. But keep being biased if you want.
@@JaredHettler yeah ok, he better get those HOF numbers in the next five years because his stats right now ain't nothing... btw, how old is judge exactly ????
i wish i wouldn’t have listen to half the people that tried to coach me. i was small and fast so every coach tried to teach me how to prioritize contact. it took me until my sophomore year in college to change my swing so that i could generate more power and became a much better hitter because while being a contact hitter can be rewarding at times. it’s very situational.
We taught this 20 years ago. We called it whipping the barrel and eventually had a drill called the Vlady drill. Whip it 4-5 times and swing like hell.
Hands still went to the ball! He let the ball “get deep” as to what led to his bat path. He also did a great job “staying inside” the baseball. Teacher man didn’t teach Bonds, Griffey Jr., A-Rod etc.
Basically they are teaching to LITERALLY “GOLF” the ball instead of using all of the arms only the wrist and it’s hurting the players swing and they are not catching up with the errors
They don’t launch it backwards they rotate and the bat rotates that’s all. And try hammering a nail with pronation supination like he teaches. It’s ulnar and radial deviation aka neutral hammering motion like they’ve done for thousands of years since they made a hammer. That is why they’re palm up palm down at contact. He’s got some good coaching cues but he markets himself more then trying to help people with their individual swings. Everyone moves differently.
Wow….yes…..finally someone gets it. All the greats have a top hand that eventually pronates. Nobody does a weak rotary motion around the top hand forearm.
I remember some guy tweeted about that video of trout how it was an incorrect technique and everyone flamed him because that’s literally one of the best players in the modern era.
@@playapgaming I guess have fun hitting a bunch of pop fly’s then; because that’s what will happen when you get underneath the ball. Like I said, power hitters like Judge and Trout definitely benefit, but someon with less power will get underneath and pop out. That’s just simple physics.
There are 2 basic swings in baseball, both are correct and work great. This is the power swing. Lots of guys use it, this man didnt invent this method, been around for 100 years or more. But there is a contact swing which is flatter and thousands of great hitters use that also. The issue most people take with him is he uses improper form of the contact swing and claims people are teaching improper form as the actual form. He attempts to discredit a swing to validate "his" swing. He didnt invent anything, just gives a different way of teaching it. Says it different but gets the same result as thousands of people before he came around.
You are accurate that there is backward barrel movement, but teaching that it is a quick snap is a dangerous inaccurate tactic. Let the bat gradually fall with gravity.
I've always snapped the bat backward a little. If you are talking about the extra couole inches of windup before coming forward to swing then yes. Just do it if that's what you wanna do. Gives you more impact when connecting, like pulling an elastic band a little more for a little more energy.
Terrible swing path only works for mlb hitters who know how to adjust but outside pitches are gonna be off the end and using this method under everything
So two of the best hitters in baseball have bad swing paths? And they can only pull it off because they're so good? Not because they know things and hit better than 99.99999% of people? And we wouldn't benefit from emulating their swings as best as possible? Do you even have a shred of comprehension as to how many swings these guys take per day? Do you understand the degree to which they've perfected their craft? But yeah.... keep arguing about it with your former .250 little league average and bench stats from high school.
They are literally just staying connecting through the swing… doesn’t matter where you hands start or what stance you have, a good hitter will have the same connected swing with hands inside the baseball
As a baseball player they are swinging like that because it's an inside pitch. Btw they are in the MLB I think they know how to swing a bat. So don't be a hater. Also aron judge hit the most home runs in baseball 2 years ago.
It’s true but the only reason they’re good while doing it is because they started out punching their hands through the strike zone as a way of saying trying to drive the ball oppo. They’re doing the same thing just trying to get the launch angle to hit it out of the park which takes years of strength and muscle memory training
Not to sound like I’m making excuses for myself but I wish I hadn’t started to lose hope in my dreams. I hurt my shoulder in a quad accident and it messed up my elbow and greatly impacted my throwing endurance. But I can’t really blame anyone but myself
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Show Yuli Gurriel's bat path lol
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I would say they turn it not whip it.
The best hitters can get away with things 10 year old kids learning how to swing can’t. “Teachers/coaches” like you are the reason hitting is being taught wrong.
It's not people denying it. It's just they don't forcefully snap it back. As long as everything is working correctly and you don't do anything weird with your arms you shouldn't have to snap it back. It'll just naturally slot itself/turn back
My son (8) was having a tough time hitting this year. I found your videos about 2-3 weeks ago and have been working with him since. He makes contact with this technique each AB and gets on base at least 3 times now a game. It was a GAME CHANGER for him. Thank you for making this easy to teach him :)
That's wiiiiild!!! Lil slugger must be so stoked
Don’t let these haters tell you anything. This technique is awesome
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@@au8363 YESSSSS
No!!! Damnit. Hit it where it’s pitched. Stop trying to pull everything and striking out. Tony Gwynn is so pissed in his grave.
@@djlutz9443 alright post a video of your great swing technique and let the people compare big boy
The best technique is whatever gets the job done.
Relating to golf, obviously there are tried and tested methods that are the groundwork for great production at the tee box/ plate, but swing your swing. If you have the ugliest swing but you’re able to hit .300 or under par, do what you do.
@@ryanbacon4070 sure.. For golf. In baseball pitchers will pitch to holes in Ur swing so u want the barrel in the zone for as long as possible to give urself the best chance
Does it get anymore vague and water down as this
@@HumanGorillaHormone yup whatever works
@@HumanGorillaHormoneyeah for real, like the golf ball isn’t moving… the golf ball isn’t going to exploit your weaknesses lol. golf and baseball are incomparable imo.
I played baseball for 10 years as a kid and teenager, no one ever showed me how to swing properly.
Honestly, coaches were kinda trash
Damn man that seriously sucks, my coaches were amazing, I guess you really do just get lucky or don’t, but try to inspire better coaching in your kids if they ever play! And if you ever have any!
Hell Matt Antonelli talks about going all the way thru High school, College, Minor and even the freaking Major leagues and never hearing anything about how to swing properly.
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I played 15 years including having 8 guys drafted from my high school teams and later playing div 1 and this was never taught.
Basically if u could hit.... Nobody cared to mess with Ur setup or swing.
Same with pitching for that matter.
The one guy who had legit instruction went 3rd overall out of high school.
Inside out swing. Many great hitters used it over the years. Tony Gwynn, Freddy freeman , Derek Jeter, just to name a few
I tried it at my facility today. The swings prior to trying this method my exit velo off the tee was between 65-70. The first two I tried doing this method my exit velo was 79.3….this is the real deal!
Remember this was off the tee that’s why the exit velo is so low 😂
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@@SammyF1289 he went on the tee from 65 to 70 then tried his way and bumped up 10mph on the tee
Same here went from 85 going into college and when i found this i raised it to consistently 90s with plenty of high 90s and even a 101.
I hit ASA softballs off the tee anywhere from 92 to 106 mph. I hit USSSA high compression balls off the tee anywhere from 96 to 115 mph. I played baseball in high school and for a USMC team at Cherry Pt. I hit the baseball a little harder in baseball. In both sports, power is generated through bat lag. This technique is combining getting the bat on plane with the pitch while introducing bat lag, but most importantly in an efficient timing mechanic for the fast pitches I'm baseball. Softball swing is a more upright stance and more emphasis on bat lag combined with rotational mechanics to hit the long ball.
I don’t know who you are or where you came from but you mastered the swing. Compactness, “launch angle,” firm front side with total back hip rotation, you figured it out
Mike trout? Is the second vid
Agreed. This man speaks the truth. I've been in baseball my whole life and he explained it better than anyone
@John Smith he spent years upon years exactly copying Barry Bonds’ swing to teach his son. He learned all about the anatomy of a perfect swing, and taught it to others
This is not the truth. Not good swing planes
@@spannoschannel599 did you have a second point?
This guy is teaching the reigning mvp these egos need to stop it’s pointless. this guy is doing a lot for us and doing it for free
yeah I heard Cody bellinger tried doing this type of stuff and look where he is now (after 2019)
@@OffCourtProductionshe got a bad shoulder injury that messed with his swing he had a good season after seeing teacherman it’s just tough for him because he has nagging injuries that make it painful to swing
People seem to think the bat should be parallel to the ground through the zone, but it doesn't need to be. It only needs to be perpendicular to the pitch to maximize area of the bat through the zone. This technique seems to keep the bat perpendicular to the pitch while maximizing biomechanical efficiency.
And with a perfectly flat swing the margin for error is a lot smaller in terms of hitting home runs, it seems. If you don't hit the ball below dead center you're hitting a grounder. Now with a more golf-like swing, with the proper swing timing, you're going to basically always be 'scooping' the ball instead, sending it into the air far more often.
Hands stay above the ball. It’s simple
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@@blakebrown534 yeah but when your over 200 pounds scooping the ball equals more homers youd think anyway
I had no idea what I was looking for until I read this comment. Thanks
Golf swing right there 😂
I see a lot of baseball tips and wish I had them when I was a kid. But at the same time, I don’t because these videos don’t mean anything if you don’t really understand hitting, why you’re doing things and how they are supposed to feel when you do them correctly. That’s why it’s good to find a batting coach that can explain things in a way that you understand, because there are millions of different coaches and dads with different approaches
Please do a video of Bautista before and after. No clearer way to show how the change leads to success.
Bautista swing chage was because of his high leg front step......He says it himself.
@@oljimeagle you think they are gunna give the secret sauce for free?
@@oljimeagle yes but the front leg staying up allowed him to sit in back hip and coil until he was ready to snap
I just see two guys staying inside the ball on a high line drive path. I don’t think anyone denies hitting the ball up 20-30 degrees is wrong anymore
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I agree. I’ve seen videos going around of this coach saying that you should flip the barrel downward on your backswing and have the knob upward as you’re bringing your hands around. I find that to be nonsense and completely unuseful. I don’t see that technique in AJs swings and it stinks of some BS grifter guru nonsense. If the dude is so good at coaching MLB hitters on how to hit why isn’t that his job. Why is he trying to promote himself and his program to people who don’t know how to hit.
@@conormccaffery5821he’s literally Aaron Judge’s hitting coach 😂
@@BleedDodgerBlue so?
The only right way is the way that works for you!
Thats like cricket 😂
I think it covers more vertical surface area. Having the bat parallel to the ground allows you to catch balls that are going side to side but not up and down. Much more likely to catch a curveball or a ball that's sinking or rising with a bat that's more perpendicular to the ground. Not completely perpendicular cuz that would be a golf swing but something a little more like Ken Griffey Jr if you know what I mean.
It’s just dawned on me how similar this swing technique looks like a cricketer swinging their bat. It seems that this is just the correct way to bat a thrown ball no matter the sport.
Underrated comment. Amazing observation
Well, that's because the wicket is at ground level so you're going to see a much more golf-like swing for sure. But either way, the more you can get under the ball with power the more likely you're going to be driving home runs and not line drives so it makes sense why you'd want to hit this way.
@@blakebrown534 makes sence? BWAHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA good joke.
No, it's really not.
@@jonnyblayze5149 Are you telling me that a bat in cricket is not on average swung much lower than a bat is swung in baseball?
I took live BP for the first time in 25 years after watching hours of your teaching…. It’s the best I’ve ever hit.
The best hitters rarely strike out compared to these guys who rely on size more than skill to succeed.
Of course the barrels path drops down on a low/inside pitch. swing path changes based on strike zone recognition. Now try this same swing path on an elevated fastball.. ..ie A high / outside fastball in the strike zone...good luck creating this swing path... scam.. and after all this.. the hitter still needs more important skills.. balance, pitch recognition, strike zone discipline.. leading people to think they will become mlb ready if they snap their barrel back and down creating an upper cut is a scam
The bat stays perpendicular with the forearm. Knob to the ball baby. Ez homeruns
The wrist doesn’t snap. The barrel is turning into the ball while being connected at contact, allowing rotation to finish. Trout’s swing finished rotation using his bottom hand while Judges’ swing didn’t finish rotation. A check swing is not something to try and replicate.
These people saying there technique is bad, there’s a reason they’re the ones that we are watching on our phones and your sitting in your room complaining.
It didn't help Trout against Shohei yesterday though 😅
Was about to say this.
This is accurate but the coaches telling you to strike downward they are liars.
Trouts swing don't get much more down than that bud
Do you wanna learn how to swing like this? (Swing, not hit lol)
You stand in front of a fence and you place the knob of the bat into your belly and the tip of the barrel against the fence. That's all the room you need.
You swing the bat within that zone and it forces your hips to rotate before your arms can come thru...and when they do, they are in perfect extension.
It's easier than you think it may be and it compacts everything in your swing..like wearing a brace.
I learned this in HS 25 years ago from a PRO instructor and I still have the sweetest swing..(way less power than a pro tho lol)
Try it..trust me..I promise!
Search youtube for 'practice baseball swing Infront of a fence' . I found a video that shows the drill
Lol I'm a fool. This is the wall drill without the wall lol
Be careful with that drill...it can fix "casting" and help stay inside the ball but can also cause ya to "drag knob of bat" around ya along with barrel and slice worse than a golfer! Make sure ya following is OUT toward pitcher the roll the top hand...and NOT staying palm up/palm down to long and being so rotational!
Edit to add: Will also cause back albow to get ahead of hands and bad bat lag...to were ya do pull pff and around to not cast and hit the fence!
I learned the same drill decades ago, also.
Agree that this drill is mostly corrective. You shouldn't do this for daily reps, or else it could imbalance your swing into a slice.
It's what I teach kids when I see ugly casting/looping swings.
Barrel down elbows in.... All in a tenth of a second
If judge full swung on that. That bull would’ve went 700 ft 😂
I hate it when people use "literally" when it's not needed.
It’s funny when baseball players say their swing doesn’t translate to golf. If you swing inside like this, it transitions perfectly. Bad form in baseball is the same bad form you see in golf a lot. Over extended and early releases.
So argumentative with every post for no reason
Mike trout don’t be doing no propeller 😂
The reason it looks like that is because it's an inside pitch and they're trying to get behind it before it comes in.
He’s just THAT good.
Wall drill took me from the 9 hitter at the beginning of the year in 8th grade on varsity, to lead off hitter by the playoffs.
Same
I’m so confused. I don’t get what I’m supposed to be looking for.
Strikeouts and low batting average
Me too bro lol
@@djlutz9443 except both guys hit .300
@Raisa Cajuso except they don’t hit off their back leg. If a hitter is on his back toe with pressure into his front heel how is that hitting off the back leg? True that barrel is more vertical/tilted on lower pitches but the higher the pitch the less vertical or another way to say it less tilted. Waist high pitches the barrel is typically -25 degrees below the hands. One video doesn’t make proof of what a swing does.
@@rjlovell1 what most people do not realize about this technique, including the guy teaching it, it’s missing so many important factors to make it actually work. You are 100% correct about the weight in the front foot. For this swing your weight needs to be on your front foot, your hips need to be hinged, and your hands need to be on the same plane as your shoulders while the hips plane is disconnected and leading. This dude teaches 50% of the mechanics for this type of swing and tells people to swing up and spin out but people eat it up. It’s so disappointing
I agree with this only if you're a power hitter which majority are not. If you are not a power hitter and use the wall technique it will only lead to fly balls. Just like anything in this world, there is no one rule that applys to everyone because we are all different hince the phrase there's more than one way to skin a cat. People have to find the method that works for them specifically and because hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports there's going to be a variety of different ways to hit a ball. Your swing is like your finger print or a snowflake or a raindrop. Sure they may look the same but there's no two that are exactly alike. I would say to all patents or hitting instructors to teach these kids to keep their eye on the ball which is absolutely thee most important part of hitting other than that I would say let their swing develop naturally with occasional tweaks but as a player myself I know if you're not comfortable at the plate and you don't see that ball off the bat it doesn't matter what type of mechanics you were taught. I've tried so many different techniques and what works for me is swinging down on the ball. It counteracts the ball coming down from a higher than your hands angle and allows me to get more barell to ball due to physics. With the wall method you will indeed hit the ball in the air but if your not a power hitter that's no better than a ground out. Baseball is a game if stats and you're already the underdog because of all the positions in the field. You do not want to hit the ball in the air cuz it makes the odds worse the ball will he caught. If you hit line drives you have a better chance of getting hits and the homeruns and extra baggers will come naturally. But unless your being paid millions of dollars to hit homeruns your objective at the plate should be base hits and the probability of a ball being caught will decrease. According to physics the ball is going downward from the pitchers hand to the batter and if you want to square it up between two round objects of a bat and a ball, you are much better off swinging down for more barell contact. This is the fact of physics. #realitycheck
The reason is because it lowers contact time which automatically increases the force exerted on the ball
All these examples are low strikes, never high fastball in game. That's why they pitch trout high.
It’s all in the hips! RIP CHUBBS
Where was this when I was playin ball 😂😂😂
Not taught because it’s stupid.
All that Judge check swing shows is what happens when you start rotating and stop. Their bat moves rearward because they don't push their hands. It's really simple.
If Aaron Judge swung fully, it was gonna be a home run
I call it the point of contact drill. I've taught it for almost 20 years to hitters I've worked with. When you understand how to do it, you increase squaring up the ball and power. This what Judge is doing make you a high average hitter as well as a power hitter. Master it!!!
Lmao that guy is on the Yankees I think he’s alright 😂😂😂
They're not doing jack with their hands. They're rotating.
i use this technique in slow pitch softball. Altho i swing down to keep my swing level. i went from a single base hitter to a double triple and home run hitter over the course of a season.
this works and if you apply it to your natural swing and the game you are playing you will 100% see improvements. i have also uped my batting avrage 100 points in mens Baseball league as well
How the hell else is he going to hit that pitch that low????
MLB star over here
Arraez doesn't, Freeman doesn't, Acuna doesn't, Betts doesn't, ect ..
If judge put his left elbow up higher it would have been a solid cricket style on drive😊
I was thinking the same thing! Nice little chip shot over mid wicket haha
I love what he teaches I just don’t see the wrist snap first. In fact judge’s wrist snapped prior to contact
This puts more of the bat in the zone rather than on a horizontal plane.
People act like there's only 1 way of batting. It's just like any sport, there are multiple ways to teach athletes but just because a coach prefers 1 method, it does not mean that that's the best method for EVERY athlete
Judge just hit his 58th homerun and someone is commenting back on a video misunderstanding what this guy has done with the baseball swing. This is iconic and I'm happy for him and his student.
@@spannoschannel599 you guys are ridiculous Judge endorses and pays this man and you still say things like that.
That's because Mike Trout is different. That guy is a fantastic baseball player.
what’s saying u can’t be the same as trout
This technique is great. However I’ve noticed when these “hitters” go into a slump with the snap style swing they tend to be non existent at the plate for a series or two.
They are figuratively snapping the barrel back, in reality they are throwing their elbow, and driving the knob, creating whip in the swing, no body actually will whip the barrel back, all the footage of judge in the on deck circle is of him giving himself a queue to whip the bat and drive his elbow
Wanna know how to snap swing? Throw the knob of your bat at the ball. Wanna know how to power swing? Do the same, all while keeping your weight on your back foot, knuckles aligned, bottom wrist cocked, arm/bat angle held at 90, small load, and power load your back leg by flexing everything and as soon as your back leg turns you focus and put all your power in that back leg. Instant home run, try it.
Bet you can’t hit an inside fastball to right field doing that
Ur technique works so well I went from lines drives and occasionally hit a home run to hitting more home runs thank you
Consistent Line drives are more important than inconsistent home runs…
@@TWolfyG I still hit consistent line drives in fact I hit more line drives than I did before
@@TWolfyG line drives turn into homeruns
@@TWolfyG virgin
Those of you defending judge have literally zero knowledge of baseball. Judge in his career so far has 1004 strike outs to 532 walks. That's absolutely inexcusable. He's also hitting for an average of 282. For someone who hasn't played that long, that's not good.
Judge vs Trout... ain't a comparison, Trout a 100x better.
really?
@@shreksarchnemesis2667 yes really, trout hall of fame... judge aint even close.
Lol Judge will be a first ballot HOFer. Judge currently has a career .284 avg with 234 homeruns, 530 RBI, 567 runs scored, 501 walks, a .395 OBP and a .586 SLG with two 50+ homer seasons. 1 MVP, ROTY and was robbed of a 2nd MVP. Wilson Defensive player of the year last year.
Trout through 50 more games than Judge (his first 6 seasons) had a .306 avg, 168 homeruns, 497 RBI, 600 runs, 477 walks, a .405 OBP, .557 SLG. 2 MVPs and a ROTY. 0 gold gloves.
Doesn't look 100x better to me buddy. But keep being biased if you want.
@@JaredHettler yeah ok, he better get those HOF numbers in the next five years because his stats right now ain't nothing... btw, how old is judge exactly ????
Pretty good straight drive for a cricket player. What’s the issue?
He is teaching people how to hit well. Not make contact pounding the ball in the ground and hitting little back spinning bloops.
i wish i wouldn’t have listen to half the people that tried to coach me. i was small and fast so every coach tried to teach me how to prioritize contact. it took me until my sophomore year in college to change my swing so that i could generate more power and became a much better hitter because while being a contact hitter can be rewarding at times. it’s very situational.
Nah bro u pretty much suprise me with new techniques every time
What techniques are we seeing besides a check swing and Trout hitting off a pitching machine??
We taught this 20 years ago. We called it whipping the barrel and eventually had a drill called the Vlady drill. Whip it 4-5 times and swing like hell.
I wish someone told Pete Rose or Tony Gynn or Ken Griff that they needed to swing like this - I wonder what their fathers would have said to them
That's a straight drive in cricket
Trout probably got injured on that swing.
Hands still went to the ball! He let the ball “get deep” as to what led to his bat path. He also did a great job “staying inside” the baseball. Teacher man didn’t teach Bonds, Griffey Jr., A-Rod etc.
I agree with you generically, but it never worked for me (as a contact hitter). Just didn't have enough power.
Exactly. You strike out more swinging up at the ball like that but it pays off when you finally hit it
Basically they are teaching to LITERALLY “GOLF” the ball instead of using all of the arms only the wrist and it’s hurting the players swing and they are not catching up with the errors
They don’t launch it backwards they rotate and the bat rotates that’s all. And try hammering a nail with pronation supination like he teaches. It’s ulnar and radial deviation aka neutral hammering motion like they’ve done for thousands of years since they made a hammer. That is why they’re palm up palm down at contact. He’s got some good coaching cues but he markets himself more then trying to help people with their individual swings. Everyone moves differently.
Wow….yes…..finally someone gets it. All the greats have a top hand that eventually pronates. Nobody does a weak rotary motion around the top hand forearm.
I remember some guy tweeted about that video of trout how it was an incorrect technique and everyone flamed him because that’s literally one of the best players in the modern era.
It depends if your a hr hitter or not. If you have power, this definitely works.
Power is only a part of the equation its called bat speed and launch angle lol "hr hitter" is like Barry Bonds era terminology lol
@@playapgaming I guess have fun hitting a bunch of pop fly’s then; because that’s what will happen when you get underneath the ball. Like I said, power hitters like Judge and Trout definitely benefit, but someon with less power will get underneath and pop out. That’s just simple physics.
There are 2 basic swings in baseball, both are correct and work great. This is the power swing. Lots of guys use it, this man didnt invent this method, been around for 100 years or more. But there is a contact swing which is flatter and thousands of great hitters use that also. The issue most people take with him is he uses improper form of the contact swing and claims people are teaching improper form as the actual form. He attempts to discredit a swing to validate "his" swing. He didnt invent anything, just gives a different way of teaching it. Says it different but gets the same result as thousands of people before he came around.
It’s crazy that people don’t understand that you still need to get barrel on the ball🤣
It’s like Cricket striking
You are accurate that there is backward barrel movement, but teaching that it is a quick snap is a dangerous inaccurate tactic. Let the bat gradually fall with gravity.
Guy wearing 99, took a semi cricket swing.
he doesn't teach it the wrong way, he just over exaggerates the motion for us to understand what it is. it's just a different way of coaching
I've always snapped the bat backward a little. If you are talking about the extra couole inches of windup before coming forward to swing then yes. Just do it if that's what you wanna do. Gives you more impact when connecting, like pulling an elastic band a little more for a little more energy.
That's to bad. While it may have "worked" for you it is an incorrect technique and should NEVER be taught.
Mad golf swing right there. Matt Wolfe would approve
How are there still people arguing with this man’s proven technique?
Trout swung at a ball . How else would you hit a ball out of the zone
Judge hit 62 this year. Thats how you hit the ball. Plus he could’ve chopped like the they teach in HS.
Gray Man. Good movie.
@@LambeauLeeeper launch angle is on the way out
Lol thats a strike but okay
Terrible swing path only works for mlb hitters who know how to adjust but outside pitches are gonna be off the end and using this method under everything
So two of the best hitters in baseball have bad swing paths? And they can only pull it off because they're so good? Not because they know things and hit better than 99.99999% of people? And we wouldn't benefit from emulating their swings as best as possible?
Do you even have a shred of comprehension as to how many swings these guys take per day? Do you understand the degree to which they've perfected their craft? But yeah.... keep arguing about it with your former .250 little league average and bench stats from high school.
They are literally just staying connecting through the swing… doesn’t matter where you hands start or what stance you have, a good hitter will have the same connected swing with hands inside the baseball
Saying this technique is bad then showing Aaron judge is probably the dumbest thing you could of did for trying to prove a point lol
As a baseball player they are swinging like that because it's an inside pitch. Btw they are in the MLB I think they know how to swing a bat. So don't be a hater. Also aron judge hit the most home runs in baseball 2 years ago.
Damn that's a cricket swing 🤣
Almost right lol
Swinging at full speed then doing the defence.
Trout does swing a lot like a cricket swing generally
Sinker ball swing. That’s why pitchers started throwing fastballs top of zone. This swing cant touch it.
Didn't look like he was teaching anyone to swing. He was playing in an MLB game.
bro im 12 and what your teaching has helped me amazingly
NJ hitters were taught this way from at least the 60’s
It’s how my dad taught me and how I teach my son. Done deal.
It’s true but the only reason they’re good while doing it is because they started out punching their hands through the strike zone as a way of saying trying to drive the ball oppo. They’re doing the same thing just trying to get the launch angle to hit it out of the park which takes years of strength and muscle memory training
Not to sound like I’m making excuses for myself but I wish I hadn’t started to lose hope in my dreams. I hurt my shoulder in a quad accident and it messed up my elbow and greatly impacted my throwing endurance. But I can’t really blame anyone but myself
People who hate on the technique never got out of highschool baseball and were never taught proper barrel position.
As somebody who swings like this, I can confirm it’s 100% effective.
I changed my 11 year old daughter's swing and she went from hitting ground balls to driving the ball every at bat.
so we've come full circle and back to what looks just like a cricket bat swing 😊
What they deny your claim that weight never transferred.