How to hit A Baseball Far
CRUSH MORE HOME RUNS With These 3 Hitting Tips
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hey guys coach Justin from ultimate
baseball training and in today's video I
wanted to give you some really short
quick actionable hitting tips that you
can take with you right to the field and
if you like this style of video then let
me know and I'll be sure to make more of
them but today we're talking about how
to crush more home runs at the place so
without further ado let's just jump
right into it
alright guys the very first tip that I
have for you when it comes to crushing
more home runs it has nothing to do with
launch angle or advance movement
patterns in fact this tip right here is
often overlooked by a lot of players
right but what do we see by a lot of
players when they get in the box and
they're trying to hit a home run what do
we see we see them start to tense up we
see them start to squeeze the sawdust
out of the bat they got a tight grip and
then their shoulders tighten up and
their entire bodies tightened up they're
still as a statue and they're trying to
just absolutely crush the ball and so my
first tip is be loose and relaxed and
the reason why I say that is because
loose muscles are fast muscles right
loose muscles are fast muscles but tight
muscles are slow muscles right and so I
want to encourage you to stay loose and
it really starts from the top down in my
opinion the only part of you that
shouldn't be loose you should have an
aggressive mind okay
aggressive mind but the rest of your
body should be nice and loose so when
you get into your stance a couple key
points in terms of becoming more loose
becoming relaxed because it's easy to
say but how do we actually accomplish
that the very first thing I want you to
focus on is actually top-down focus on
your jaw right because when we clench
our teeth right when we clench our face
muscles it causes the rest of our body
to tense up as well think about if
you're if you're in a fight or if you're
a boxer and you get really mad at
someone what's the first thing you do
you clench your teeth you clench your
your face muscles and that causes
everything else to tense up right so if
we have a tight jaw when we're hitting
it's gonna actually transfer down the
rest of our body so that's the very
first thing make sure that your jaw and
your face is actually just nice and
loose and relaxed then from there
working down we want to make sure our
shoulders are relaxed because if you
have tight shoulders again your hands
are gonna get tight everything else in
your body is gonna get tight as well so
loose jaw loose shoulders you know if
you sit at a computer too long speaking
of your shoulders and if you're typing
too high right down here would be
perfect but if you're typing too high
eventually your shoulders are gonna get
really tense and tight and then you're
next gonna get tight and you're
literally gonna stress yourself out
because of that because it's a it's an
awkward position right so we want to
avoid that in hit
as well so loose jaw loose shoulders and
then from there we go into having a nice
relaxed loose grip you want to make sure
that you're holding the bat somewhat out
in your fingertips you don't want to
hold it really really deep in your palm
right but we don't want to squeeze the
sawdust out of the bat we want to make
sure we have a loose grip one thing I
want to make sure that you avoid when
you're in your stance is try to not
twist your bat I see some younger
players to keep a loose grip they twist
their bat like this and what happens the
reason why I don't recommend that is you
twist your bat and the pitcher goes into
his motion and all of a sudden my hands
are in an awkward position like this and
then I go in my swing and all of a
sudden I got bat drag and I have a loop
in my swing and stuff all because I
didn't have the proper grip so I don't
recommend twisting the bat but if you
struggle squeezing the bat too tight you
can always you know wiggle your fingers
just a little bit and I recommend you
know having a little bit of movement
with your bat for younger players I
don't recommend them having a ton of
movement but I think a little bit of
movement is important and that leads me
to the next the last part about being
you know loose and relaxed we want to
make sure we have some sort of movement
in our swing and that's you know in our
legs and in our upper body because for
two reasons if you just stand here like
this like a statue without any rhythm
any flow right rhythm hitting is rhythm
and timing so if you just stand here
like this like a statue
that's bad for two reasons number one
you're going to tighten up if you're
standing here you know like this number
two is you actually have to overcome
inertia in order to get your swing
started so if you're like this
eventually
you've probably heard something that's
in motion tends to stay in motion
something at rest tends to stay at rest
well if you're like this you're at rest
and so it's going to be that much harder
it's going to add an additional step to
your swing right so we want to avoid
that at all cost I'm not saying you have
to move a ton all I'm saying is have
just a little bit of rhythm okay
back and forth just a little bit and
maybe just back and forth a little bit
with your hands as well this is fine you
have some rhythm you have some timing
and it makes it that much easier to go
into your load and your stride and get a
good swing off but that's the first tip
to crushing more home runs loose muscles
or fast muscles is going to lead to more
bat speed and more power
all right the next tip I have for you
when it comes to crushing more home runs
is you need to have an aggressive versus
a passive mentality and this is again
often overlooked part of hitting home
runs everyone wants to get caught up in
the latest buzz words but your mentality
has so much to do with your results at
the plate so an example that I love to
use okay let's say you're taking batting
practice right regular old batting
practice and it's two separate days okay
and the first day you have a BP pitcher
who's you know he's your go-to guy he is
a money BP pitcher he can hit any single
spot if you tell him hey I want to work
inside today he'll you know paint the
inside corner if you tell him hey put it
right here today he's gonna put it and
literally be able to hit your bat we all
know that those you know some of those
BP throwers that are just absolutely
money so that's your BP thrower day one
now day two maybe that guy's sick he
can't make it to practice whatever day
two you have another coach or another
guy throwing you BP and let's say he you
know really really struggles to get the
ball over the plate you tell him to
throw you inside and they're outside
they're up down you're worried about
some pitches are coming at you so you
got to duck and get out of the way so
here's the example that I love to use
right that's two separate pitchers two
separate days which day are you going to
be more comfortable hitting seems like a
no-brainer right obviously day one but
the important thing is why are you more
comfortable day one well the reasoning
is because on day one you know that that
pitcher is going to put the ball over
the place so what that tells your brain
is you're not thinking about okay I'm
gonna see the ball and if it's a strike
then I'm gonna swing you know it's going
to be there so automatically in your
mind every single pitch after your first
round you start getting into a groove
right you're attacking the baseball
because you know it's gonna be there and
so after you get loose your first round
or two then you hop in the cage and
you're like alright I'm gonna see how
far I can take this dude and you really
start going after the ball with an
attack mentality okay but on day two
what do you do instead day two you're
like man this guy can't get it over the
plate you're sitting in the batter's box
okay if he throws it over the plate this
time I'll swing up there's one behind me
okay next pitch that one's in the dirt
you're not truly
attacking the baseball because you're
worried about well I wonder if it's
gonna be a strike or not okay so I love
that example because that's a difference
between an aggressive versus a passive
mentality which day out of those two
days do you think you're gonna hit the
ball harder and hit more home runs is it
gonna be every single pitch the first
day when you're aggressive and you're
trying to absolutely hammer the ball and
see how deep you can take him because
you know it's gonna be a strike you have
a good yes yes no mentality is it gonna
be that day or is it gonna be the day
where you're wishy-washy and I don't
know maybe I'll swing if it's a strike
and so obviously day one's gonna result
in more power more home runs but you can
learn something from that example and
and that's how you crush more home runs
you have to have an aggressive mindset
you have to realize guys your baseball
bat man you got a weapon in your hands
and you have to have the mentality of
yes
this particular pitch when I step in the
box I am swinging if it's over the white
of the plate
I am banging and if you have that
yes-yes-yes mentality it's very easy if
it's a ball to hold you know hold off
for a split second tap the brakes right
it's very easy to do that but on the
flip side it's very hard if you're
sitting in there well I wonder if this
pitch is gonna be a strike and then you
see the ball and then you decide to
swing it's very very challenging to do
that and make contact let alone hit the
ball with any authority alright so now
we're loose and relaxed we have an
aggressive versus a passive mentality
now the last key to crushing more
homeruns is separation achieving
separation so this is another term that
kind of gets thrown around quite a bit
but I'm not sure all younger players
fully understand this term so all
separation is when I talk about
separation is separation from basically
my lower half and my upper half my lower
body versus my lower body okay and I'd
love to use the example imagine that I
have a rubber band in between my fingers
okay and I'm only holding it that far
apart and I pull it apart to there
there's gonna be some tension built up
there right but it's just gonna be a
little bit okay as opposed to if I have
that same rubber band and I really
really stretch it out to here obviously
that's going to have so much more energy
built up in fact that rubber bands
probably going to explode right and
that's what we
do we want to explode on the baseball as
a hitter so the way that that translates
to the swing the rubberband example is I
see a lot of players if you pay
attention to my hands a lot of players
start with their hands right here and
they go into their load and their stride
and their hands don't move and they
don't allow this front arm to lengthen
it at all so when they get to their
launch position meaning my front foot
strikes the ground their hands are in
here like this and then from there yeah
they can rotate a little bit but
basically all they have is throwing
their hands at the baseball they don't
have any sort of torque or whip action
built up so the way that you achieve
quality separation or at first let me
show you what quality separation looks
like is when I go into my load and my
stride I want to have a good lat stretch
here I want this front arm not barred
out like this but I want to have some
length to it and then my front heel is
gonna drop my hips are gonna begin to
rotate right but I still have my hands
back here and their separation between
my lower half is starting to turn my
upper half is still coiled back and if
you do this at home right now and you
get into a position where your hips
start to fire and everything else is
still back here you're gonna feel like I
said in your lats you're gonna feel so
much torque built up that you can then
just explode on the baseball but the key
is how do we get to separation and a lot
of coaches out there teach you know when
you go into your load to load your hands
and you know push your hands back and
that's not the proper way to do it okay
because even if you do that you load
your hands that's artificial and still
from there all I have to do is throw my
hands at the ball it's not gonna be a
very powerful swing right the way this
is actually accomplished as you allow
your hands to actually stay in the same
place and as you stride towards the
pitcher you're basically walking away
from your hands so this is what it looks
like I'm in my regular stance okay I go
into my load when I go into my load I'm
not pushing my hands back in fact
they're staying in the exact same spot
but when I stride forward they're still
staying in the same spot but my body's
moving this way and my hands are staying
in the same spot you see that and so
that automatically is going to get you
in a better launch position you're going
to have more separation so that's really
the key
in your load the load is just to gather
the load is just a weight shift it's not
a way for you to generate power to load
it timing mechanism so I want you in a
loose comfortable stance I want you to
go into your load and your hands should
stay in the same spot okay
and then as you stride forward then your
hands naturally walk away from your body
or your body walks away from your hands
and then you get into a good launch
position like this I got a good lat or a
good length in this front arm here a
good lat stretch my front foot to open
about 45 degrees my knobs facing the
catcher and then from there you're
really going to be able to get on plane
with the pitch and crush more home runs
last thing two quick drills that I
really recommend that you try out
because it's going to help you get the
feeling of separation first one is
launch position walks so we're gonna
start with the handle of our bat this
part here on our neck knob facing the
catcher we're gonna have a narrow stance
and all we're gonna do is we're gonna
kind of have a weight shift back rock
back a little bit and we're going to
take a big stride and as we stride
notice my hands start here and they stay
there but my body is moving forward so
I'm not pushing my hands back they're
staying in the same spot but my body's
moving forward so that's one launch
position walk and I bring my feet
together and do the same thing and you
do that over and over so that's launch
position walks and the last drill that's
really cool you're gonna need a fence or
some sort of a net this is going to
provide immediate feedback all you're
gonna do is place your back foot pretty
much on the fence you're going to get
into your normal stance and you're going
to go into your load and your stride and
get to that launch position and if you
allow your hands to naturally separate
on their own as your body moves forward
your hands are not going to hit that
fence
however if I artificially push them back
you saw there that they're going to hit
the fence so a great drill to provide
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