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Hitting Philosophy - Dry Swings
Bobby Pierce
Head Baseball Coach Troy State University
Part of your job as a baseball coach is to develop hitters and dry swings are a great way to see your hitters perform and they give you an opportunity to coach one on one or in a group.
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Quality vs Quantity
Quality and quantity are important and the balance between the two is a fine line that you as a coach must walk to point your baseball players in the right direction.
Live at Bats
The best way to be ready for a live at bat, is to do live at bats. How can your baseball players get more live at bats? Here's some ideas to get as many live at bats as possible.
Relaxing the Hitter
Can you overload your player with instruction? Yes you can, there are times to breath down your players neck to improve their performance and times to let them breath down their own necks.
Build the Batter
Help your batter build his swing by moving his swing forward step by step before you put them in front of a live pitcher or even a batting tee.
Dry Swings
The dry swing is a great learning tool, and here's a video that shows you techniques to evaluate dry swings with your baseball players.
More On Dry Swings
The dry swing has bookoodles of teaching points and as you go through the session and cover good and bad points you can advance to a more athletic swing while you teach.
Dry Swing Wrap Up
You've gone through the dry swing and covered a LOT of points, here's an overview that will help you finish the dry swing session.
BBCOR Bat | Hitting And Run Production
You can't count on big innings to pull you ahead when you're using the BBCOR bat and in this video Coach Brian Shoop covers strategies to help you produce runs.
Hitting Wrap Session
Coach Link Jarrett of Auburn University has a hot stove session on hitting the baseball that will give you ideas to help your hitters improve their at bat perfo
Baseball Hitting Drills - Part 2
Hitting the baseball is why your hitters come to the plate, but to make your hitters at bats more effective, you need to work in the batting cage.
Building Complete Hitters
To build a complete baseball hitter, you must know the fundamentals of good baseball swing.