what's going on guys and welcome back to
pro speed baseball I'm very excited for
today's video we have one of our pro
speed baseball students here Garrett
who's going to help us learn the basics
of the swing in four simple steps let's
go ahead and get started
alright guys first and foremost the best
coaching needs to be done right when
these when these guys get started
hitting I got Garrett when he was seven
years old and I already had a ton of
poison in terms of what we call here
poison at pro speed baseball is bad
coaching you know he was told some
things and he had a lot of issues so
what we're gonna do is if you are
getting started with hitting or even if
you've already started for a little bit
this is going to be a perfect video
because you're gonna see four basic
things that you can do to get off to a
great start as a hitter the first one
we're gonna start off with is the grip
everybody needs to make sure they have a
good grip when they start off this if
you get used to a grip that's not quite
what where we want it that doesn't allow
our hands to do what they need to do
then it's really hard to break that
habit so Garrett's demonstrating here a
perfect doorknocker over doorknocker
grip that's going to allow your wrist to
hit unhinge properly in the swing so
what we want to do when we line those
doorknockers up guys you just do this at
home like use the knuckles that you
would knock on a door with and you're
simply going to line those those two
knuckles on up right on top of each
other creating a nice straight line
that's gonna put the bat in the fingers
of your hands just like you're seeing
Garrett's here so go ahead and open your
hands right there a little bit right
here so that is going to be resting in
the fingers of the hands so guys grip is
pretty simple now once we have our grip
we're going to get into a basic stance
of Garrett's gonna show us here from
face-on we're going to get into our T
setup and all we're going to do is we're
going to learn these that our stance
width is going to be just maybe a little
bit wider than shoulder width so that's
number two we have our grip our stance
width then we have our load and stride
if we get those things guys we're gonna
have at least a really nice base to
start working with when we start working
on the other parts of our swing so we've
got our grip we've got about a little
bit wider than shoulder width stance now
we're going to do the load guys all we
all we want us to do when we start off
in the load is make sure that our hands
are going to be behind our
shoulder from the face on view so our
hands can start off in front of our
shoulder but when they load they want to
be behind the shoulder so we if we get a
little bit too long with our load the
arm will straighten out we want to make
sure we still have a little bit bent
bend but if we get too short then our
hands are going to be covering our
shoulder we want to make sure our hands
are behind our shoulder and we have some
bend in that arm that's that's all we
really need to know getting started with
the load now we're gonna go ahead and
make our stride which is going to be
just a very small step forward and as
you can see here Garrett has opened his
foot slightly this is going to allow
room for the hips to open up again basic
mechanics when we see we get a little
bit further along the way with how the
hips work in the swing we want to make
sure that that foots good so when we
stride we want to make sure that foots
open just a little bit guys if we can
get these floor pieces we can start
making some really good swings even if
everything isn't perfect we at least
have a base to start with so again we
have our door knockers over door
knockers on the grip we have a shoulder
a little bit wider than shoulder width
stance we have a load go ahead and load
for me we're gonna have a stride okay
the hands are behind the shoulder from
the face on view which is where we are
right here this is the face on view will
show you down the line here in a second
and we have this lead foot is going to
be a little bit open so Garrett go ahead
and start go ahead put your bat down put
it all the way down go ahead and get
started from very beginning go ahead and
get your grip okay we're gonna load load
the hands we're gonna stride the foot
good and then from here guys we're gonna
make a swing go ahead and make a swing
good alright so what we're gonna do one
more time go and get set big thing guys
here in these four steps when you make
your swing we only load one time we only
stride one time okay we're gonna load
stride your foot okay now what you'll
see when Garrett goes to swing his hands
are gonna go to the ball and his foots
going to stay down where everybody goofs
up for the first time is they want to
step into the ball they want to lift
their foot up off the ground and then
put it back down we want to keep our
foot down on the ground so start all the
way over for me real quick
getting your set up okay right there all
right load your hands stride he's going
to keep his foot down and make a nice
swing
and a little bonus here guys if you can
get into a nice balanced finish like
Garrett we're off to a really good start
let's show him one here from down the
line so he's going to take his grip
we're gonna load the hands stride the
foot his foots gonna stay down and we're
gonna make a nice swing and we're gonna
have a nice hold finish guys four
checkpoints if you can get started with
these you can be on your way to having a
very nice start to your baseball swing
if you guys want some extra help with
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description below I'd like to thank you
guys for checking out this video if you
like to stay tuned we got even better
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the link in the description below thanks
again for watching guys good luck with
your games good luck with your swings
and we'll see you guys soon hey I'm
going to show you the number one move
that kills bat lag but most importantly
we're going to do a drill that will
instantly give you a tight transition
into bat lag and have your swing look
looking drastically better today the
move that I'm talking about here is when
we're going into our transition and the
bat lays down and now the only thing
that we have to rely on for bat speed is
our pure streak from Mike Trout he does
this really really well you'll see as we
pause him here in the max bat lag
position his barrel is really high and
you can see that it's barely dipping
into that line imagine if this was a
nail and this bat was a hammer if I was
trying to hammer this nail in like this
this would be kind of like me dumping
the ballot if I'm letting this hammer
swing and slam into this ball over and
over again I'm gonna be very very thick
I'm sure you guys are ready for it by
now let's go ahead and dive into the
wall drill alright guys here we go
the wall drill
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