How to hit A Fast Pitcher
How to Hit Fast Pitching
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hey what's up fellas how you doing man
Sonali here hey what's up guys how we
doing Menon Tonelli here today we're
talking about how to hit fast pitching
okay I get this question all the time
Matt how do I hit faster pitching you
know I'm hitting pitching pretty well
but anytime I face a faster pitcher I
just can't hit how do I do it
okay there's a couple of tips that I can
give your desk the first thing and
probably the easiest adjustment to make
is to get everything started earlier
okay so a guy comes in throwing faster
it's not that you're gonna swing any
faster to hit the ball right your swing
is your swing okay that net you can
change it over a long period of time you
can go work on it but when you get in
the box your swing is your swing so
you're not be able to swing any faster
so you've got to get started earlier so
the adjustment I'm making you know what
I'm facing pitchers if I'm facing the
guy that throws really hard well then I
better get ready
I better get everything ready a little
bit earlier okay I got to get it ready
earlier than different face and the guy
that's throwing slow okay so I gotta be
ready to hit I can't wait till the ball
comes out to go okay now I got a load
and get ready it's too late alright I
have to make sure I'm on time I got to
make sure come on you know depending on
the type of stride you have I gotta make
sure that I'm up in and ready on time
for that I can get my foot down and be
ready to watch the bat I'll have any
time to waste guys bringing it okay
that's the first thing get started and
get ready earlier be ready to hit that's
your only chance in the box okay so
that's the first thing the second thing
is I've got to be able to make sure that
my swing is launched quicker I can't
have I can't have anything in my swing
that takes too much time okay so how
long does it take for me to say go and
actually get my bat there if I can't do
that if that process takes forever well
then I can't hit fast pitching okay so
if I'm if I go to hit and I go I want to
launch right now okay go and I got to do
all this
right I got a shift my way or I've got
to do anything anything that takes too
much time I'm not gonna hit I've got to
get that stuff out of the way earlier
I've gotta be in a position where my
it down for them and I want to
launch I've got to be able to say go and
my bats gonna go quickly and it's got to
get there fast okay so if you've got a
swing where ah you your barrel gets out
this way and you really come out of
posture or stijn there's a hundred
different things that could happen if it
takes too long or go to contact you're
never gonna hit fast pitching okay so
some people it's not just get ready on
time all right if some players get ready
on time they're ready to go and then
they say go and all this happens and it
just takes forever for the bat to get to
the hitting zone that's a mechanical
problem it's a swing problem so you can
tell yourself anything you want but if
you don't change your swing if you don't
make your swing quicker if you don't
make your launch more sudden you're
never gonna hit fast pitching that's one
of the rooms in the big leagues right
why is it so hard to hit the major
league level because everybody your face
is gonna throw 92 and up pretty much
face a few guys at throw floor but now
more and more guys are throwing harder
why does it wide open wider team got
want guys throwing hard why is everyone
throw hard in the big leagues why
there's so many strikeouts because I've
got to be able to the faster he throws
the better my swings got to be the more
sudden it's got to be the quicker it's
got to be but I can't have any of this
stuff going on when I'm trying to launch
the bat because if my back can't get
there really really quickly I can't hit
the major leagues okay so it's a huge
issue you've got to be able to get your
body in position but then when you say
go it's your swing has got to work the
right way okay and we hit on a bunch of
stuff throughout our videos go back and
check all of our videos all of our
hitting playlist videos it's gonna talk
about all that stuff I won't go into all
that right now okay the last thing is is
that I've got to launch the bat deeper
right so we talked about
how I want to get into my back hip how I
want my weight I need a launch deep okay
so if I'm somebody that's always getting
on my front foot right so I'm always I
stride I shift I get to my front leg and
now I want to try to launch I'm losing
valuable real estate for me to be able
to see the ball and for for me to be
able to get to the ball so if I'm
launching deeper if I get into my back
leg I'm into my back hip and I'm
launched deep back and I hit the ball
there right back that's different than
if I shift to my front leg and now my
swing has to work out here in front I've
just lost a lot of real estate okay so
on my shift forward get to my lead leg
early launch the bat down and out front
I have to hit the ball right here okay
that's where I got to hit it from my
stance I do the opposite right that's
just our front plate I do the opposite I
get here and I can launch back more this
way and I'm I can make contact deeper
well now depending on where I'm standing
in the box it's gonna change obviously
but I've just Eve myself probably about
that much more room to see the ball to
get myself a little bit more time to get
there
the further I'm making the ball travel
the slower it is now on a radar gun
yeah 95 is 95 right but if the balls got
to go further I'm getting more time if
I've got to hit the ball out here I'm
losing time hopefully that makes sense
so it's not just about the actual
velocity its perceived velocity okay so
I've got more time if I can launch the
bad person I can hit it there then if
I'm always getting forward and launching
my bat forward I'm launching my bad down
here and I've got to hit everything out
here I've just lost I don't know two
three four feet maybe depending on how
much you dive forward so that's gonna
hurt you when it comes to fast pitching
so for me those are probably three
really big things okay
using your body you can able to be
sudden get the bat there quickly getting
ready early part of it it's not the
whole thing
getting ready early making sure that
you're on time all right and then the
last thing is be able to launch
everything a little bit deeper you're
gonna save yourself a couple of feet and
those two feet are going to add up to a
decent amount you may not think so but
would you rather have the pitcher pitch
from 60 feet or would you let them come
in here and say hey you can throw from
56 feet 57 feet would you tell them to
come even closer throw from 50 feet that
makes hitting pretty hard okay so like I
said guys throwing 95 he's throwing 95
from 30 feet 60 feet I mean it's 95 on
the radar gun but at aint 95 when it
comes to reaction time but the closer
they come in or the more you try to hit
the ball out there you're losing time
all right
hopefully that all makes sense if you
have questions looking on the top
section well that's all I got for today
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