How to Hit a Softball with Mike Candrea 

DINGERS HERE I COME!!!!!

Great video!

When girls use to wear shorts in softball....

I’m trying out for 8th grade softball.... they have to cut quite a few people, and I’m new so... rip me

Mike why is rolling the wrists a problem when it creates TOP SPIN rather than back spin, I coach in Australia.

I play softball :P I play 12U

Close but not quite coach. Lovey has a poor downward swing.

Sometimes i wish i didn't have to bat, cuz i'm like the only catcher and i have to take my catchers gear off and on every inning or get a player to take my place at 1st base

Even after playing travel softball for 3 yrs this is a really great check to make sure that I am on the right track and that I am not making any key mistakes

Watching this against my will.

I have my first softball practice this Saturday. I've never played, and it's an 15 and under team. I have no idea really how to play the game. Their all probably gonna be better then me. I'm going to mess up so bad. Halp...

Thanks now I understand why I am rolling my wrists

I can’t throw a rock

Thank you so much Mike and team! Your videos are really helping me understand all the important extra details, especially since I am a beginner. Again, thank you :)

Very understanding, and helped me a lot with hitting to were I'm hitting further

Are the elements and sequence of hitting the same in slow pitch as for fast pitch? The plane of the ball is certainly diferent?

hey coach Candrea! Thanks for the great video!

My coach always tells me elbows up🤨

I've always been taught to keep my elbows up. Is that bad advice?

✨shinny bat✨

can i wear contacts while playing?

I don't think anyone should use the word, but as long as it's consider artistic license, its really hypocritical to punish anyone for repeating a lyric. Either punish everyone, or nobody. Personally, I would never let a word define who I am. I'm an American of Polish decent. Both sets of grandparents immigrated to this great country. As a young man I often was referred to as a Polish slur. When I was younger, I won't lie, it bothered me. But as I matured I realized that people say things like that because of their own self insecurities, letting a slur bother you is giving them the power they seek. If you are someone that doesn't know me, who are you to judge me. The only people who's judgements impact me are the people that truly know me. If a friend or family member have critical words toward me, it hits home. Someone that doesn't know me, I don't care. I once had a teacher in HS, he was my Geography teacher. He sucked as geography teacher, but he taught me one thing that has lasted a life time. He taught me about love & hate. See to truly hate someone, at one time you had to love them, or at least really like them. The worst thing you can say about someone is I don't care. You don't matter to me, I don't care about you. And that's how I feel about people that I don't know that want to say derogatory things about me: I don't care cause you don't matter to me!

I don't know if anyone noticed, but when the swing is broken down stage by stage, the angle of the bat is flat as it traverses across the plate. However, when the video shows the girl doing a natural swing but played in slow-mo, the bat is definitely swung at an angle.

"Can see what you can't hit". Funny stuff.

Great video...thanks coach

Ohhhh man that bat the worth quad brings me back to the good Ol days! I have that bat in my closet 😢 loved playing softball! Best times of my life ❤

Let's just hope I win my game and this is gonna help even though I can to the out field but I want to hit it out of the the field

I love watching y'all videos because it helps me I have been playing softball for 6 years and this helps me more and I am so good but not perfect.

So informational I jus cant apply skills to save my life😂

Thanks helped

Omg what's wrong with her left leg? @ 3:22

Anybody see at 15:42 how he got hit with the bat 😂😂

why she keep starring at my soul

Not so much on your hands moving forward as a unit with your body on stride.. That's a poor swing. Your hands should stay back until front foot lands to have separation / stretch.

my coach wanted me to watch this

I had my first practice today for our team and thanks to these videos I had at Elat an idea of what I was doing

Does anyone else get OCD when he steps on the chalk?

thanks for the knowledge

Wel..thanks

Good video... but that "early stride" of the batter with the knee pads just looks like bad batting mechanics that need to be coached away. One thing that this video doesn't cover is how those batters developed their "unique" stances and strides in the first place. The reality is that they probably developed them because of bad coaching -- either from a well-meaning parent or a bad coach. There's no way you can convince me that striding before the "load" (or negative move) is as effective as striding after the load.

6:54 "You can see what you can hit" WTF? LOL