How to Crush a Softball 

“Lot smaller than me that hits further” steps in a enormous man

03:28 - FINALLY! Someone who acknowledged how hard it is for us rookies to hit a slow, looping pitch when also know to swing level. Thanks!

All these years I haven't been stepping, something I have to work on!!! Thank you. Just have to work on the power shift!

This video should be a meme

That grip completely changed the way I was swinging. So much more power off the bat with that release. Thanks guys!

Heres some tips on how to jack homer runs. Tip #1 push the ball to oppo ........................

Thank you! I've got a student-teacher game coming up. This'll help.

Tip #1, never show the audience that it didnt go over the fence but pretend that it did.

Funny, hitting those fruits & veggies ! I pitch a lot of " meatballs" in BP.

Thanks, Greg Kreiger, for making this such a fun video to shoot!

Hi guys! thank you for the tips. 👏

This video is amazing.

This is the most softball video I’ve ever seen 🤣🤣

Great tips and funny vid

"I'm in the mood for a tossed salad." I'm still laughing immaturely.

😂 this is great!

Watch out Greg. He’s in the mood for a tossed salad 😳

That first one was a Chinese home run,( over the Wong fence.)

“Some guys are a lot smaller” Brings in a guy 1 inch shorter and 50 pounds heavier

2:30 as well as the injury concern, its also really easy to tell when its happening then. as soon as you do the step, every single person on defence knows immediately that your trying to go oppo

Awesome pic for the video

Pretty cool thanks

Side note, Greg hit 4 over the fence at last night's softball game - including a grand slam! I guess the only thing more impressive would be if he starts calling his shots. Way to go, Greg!

Great form shown by the big guy especially the hip rotation. Food hitting was funny!!

Lmao the thumbnail is someone throwing a bunch of lettuce in the air

Disagree with the last step. Diffidently do not angle the bat towards the ball. You cut through the ball. MAYBE you’ll hit it hard once or twice, but angling will make you roll over more than hit for power.

I play softball and I wanna learn too!!

This is how I envision half the dads trying to give hitting lessons to their 10yr old 🤣

My family had a softball team that was all family. ( snatchko brother’s softball) Didn’t get on the team unless you’re name was “snatchko” they were stone cold badasses! Especially Dave and Rodger Snatchko. Everyone always tells me stories about Dave putting softballs out of 3 rivers stadium one after the other.

Looks like he likes getting his salad tossed😂

Idk why but he just seems like the guy who shows up to the field every league night looking for a team who is short a player.. plays short stop and pitcher.

These guys are Chad as fuck

Hey now your an all star

I'm 6'1" tall, what bat do you recommend me? thanks!

im having a tendency right now to get under the ball and pop it up. any quick tips to get this stopped. i was wayyyyyyyy better 13 years ago at church league. now that Im older, i havent been able to find my swing that I had.

The problem with an upward swing is that it may harm your swing, cause far too many pop up outs and definitely hurt your batting average if you’re in a limited Home Run league or just can’t hit it over the fence consistently. I prefer the old Ray DeMarini tutorial vid with the level power swing. Besides, the few Home Runs I’ve hit were from hitting the lower half of the ball, causing that ‘Top Spin Heat’, where you can see the ball jerking upwards in flight.

This like a Kenny powers commercial 😂

Oh thats why i hit it like that i will definitely use my feet a lot more thank you!

In the hips and the bat thing he only really talked about the bat it’s really the hips and the bat working together(mostly the hips,unless you are very strong in your arms)

Im way to high for this tom foolery

Video says 4 years old but acting and edits say 1980s

So manly

I would've just pulled out a fork and crawled around with a bottle of salad dressing eating all the battered veggies

Them ISA guys are hilarious.....

Your photo of lettuce is actually of green cabbage.

want a snickers

freeze stuff with dry ice and bat it into obliteration.

You want to level and square up the ball. Angling or what ever he calls it will result in lazy fly balls .

I can hit home runs in practice…. But can only pop it straight up in a game

Great video however he did lose me at “tossed salad”…

I refuse to play against this man

Mashed

at least now at P.E i can actually hit the ball

All arms

Pepper

I think he has tossed alot of salads

It sounded like chewing when it connected

Are they hitting plastic balls?

Starts at 1:56

Softball is softball and hard ball is hard ball! In hardball you CAN'T step in to go oppo lol

Fat, hard drinking dudes are the best hitters!😂

Dudes dead wrong on a few things.

But this is slow pitch

Smaller, but 200 pounds heavier. Lol

None of them balls left the park 😅😅😅🤦‍♂️

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If you’re small this won’t cut it you’ll probably be better off with your natural swing these tips don’t help much but the basics of how to swing a bat. If you’re small you have to learn how to cut the ball. If you want to hit home runs. Mainly small in weight, height doesn’t make a huge difference.

Pomegranate

Width is a size bruh..

Didn't hit one hr

I am only 5'6" and 125lbs. Do you really think I can knock one out - 250 ft. away?

Other than getting your back hip through, these tips are horrible. If you swing up at the ball and hit it square or top spin, it won’t go very far. If you can’t put back spin on the ball it’ll never go as far. This isn’t baseball where you match the plane of the pitch and can still smash a ball far that comes off the bat knuckling. Why do you think pitchers in baseball throw fastballs with back spin and it looks like the ball doesn’t have any sink if thrown over the top? Why do you think a curve ball sinks and knuckle balls drop? If you shoot a ball through a two wheel juggs pitching machine and set it on a homerun angle as a knuckle ball or curve ball, it’ll drop in the outfield (depending on how fast you set it). If you set it to shoot out at the same speed but with back spin it’ll carry waaaaay further. Every Homer hit has back spin unless you absolutely smash it. Nobody has ever miss hit a ball that had top spin or no spin over the fence unless playing on a tiny field. Softballs fly different than baseballs. You have to hit it with back spin if you want to hit long bombs.

This is a good humor video I guess but definitely check out other channels if you really want to learn how to improve your hitting. Following these tips are going to make you pop out a lot and that's pretty much the worst thing you can do in slow pitch. It almost feels like a joke/meme but the RU-vid algorithm is sending players looking to improve here unfortunately.

Who the hell is that guy lol wtf

In baseball the ball doesn't come to the plate flat no wonder this dude plays softball

Lol this is a spoof video right? The only thing I heard about hitting is dropping the bottom hand that made any sense. . No tomahawks? I want lazers not pop outs

Wtf

Play baseball 😂

Bahahalmfao

AAAY

69

You will impress me when you go back to the early 70s take a wooden bat and hit the same ball used then and hit 400ft bombs right handed and turn around and hit 400ft bombs Left handed . I new a guy .

72 bombs THATS ALL dude go get some more hot wings .

Mens softball has been destroyed here in Cincinnati, due to the development of super bats. The game is dead.

Is this a joke

click bait

Horrible lmao

I literally do everything he said not to do and I'd out hit this guy on my worst day.

Don’t read the bat on you sholder

Gee turn off that Damm music or whatever you call that racket

Uh boys play baseball or are you a couch?

Gotta love all these cats hitting these shaved bats now a days....the days of the 150 200 swings 2 3 X a week BP and actually learning to hit....are gone..now guys weighing 155 with a bat on roids 325 is not setting the bar high...

Thats an awful swing.

not impressed

This isn’t the best video out there.... going oppo has absolutely nothing to do with hitting it deep. And there’s nothing wrong with swaying your bat. Do whatever stance makes you comfortable.

I don't listen to recreation players, his swing is horrible

This was horrible

How about guys just stick to baseball softball is a woman's sport and none of these guys could hit fast pitch softball. The do slow pitch softball because they can't hit anything that comes in fast. So let girls have their sports and go play slow pitch baseball lol.

Ok bro your playing softball step on a real field and play hardball. Softballs for girls

How to hit a slow pitch homer , swing the bat