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50 years old and I changed my swing yesterday to this and it feels so much more effortless and goes way further. I play softball and have always been a good hitter but not a great hitter (as you have said with other swings).
For years my hands were away from my body. Then I realized by closing the elbow I got to the ball much quicker. You really put it into better perspective.
@@activemusickid When he picks up his foot you can see the distance from his hands to his right shoulder decrease as he enters his swinging motion, putting them closer to his body. Make sense?
@@activemusickid if you just said, his hands are away from his body, but can’t realize that when he starts his swing, his hands come in, you have no hope of EVER understanding derp
Where were you 25 years ago? We were all taught to swing down on the ball and none of us were ever great hitters, i carried that into my golf game when I pick that sport up later in life and I've never been consistent until I seen you show this baseball swing and I put that method into my golf swing and it's made me a par golfer, you are magical! thank you.
I was taught to swing “through”. Which was closer to “down” than the wrist snapping thing that this guy teaches. I hit well, and hit a fair amount of dingers
I Respect you finding and sharing your knowledge to all player and coaches in this platform. I feel if you want your 1 movement that which can easily done by pushing upper hand back with wrist pushing torads ear and then after that strech of wrist ,snap of wrist their and making snap at back easily . Then strech of back leg will realease then have tilt as per pitch height and then again snap wrist elbow then shoulder
Okay, now let's see you hit a ball that a machine throws at 130 mph, from a distance of 110 feet. That's the equivalent of only 65 MPH! Should be a piece of cake!
I am watching your video in South Korea, and I am so surprised of your hitting mechanics. There are so many mechanisms, but as I studied and practiced, it became complex, making higer maximum results, but much lower probability and longer depression. Many people tell us to make more weight shifting, more joints to take part in and rotate. But your video gave me an insight, about hitting in baseball. Using our hip and body as a power zone, concentrating in rotation, and make the barrel follow. Thanks. I forgot the genuine hit-by bat
Yep,More MLB players should ask this guy to teach them how to Bat. Funny how this old man crushes 110 mph fastballs proving his system works, and many players can’t hit this. This old guy is a better hitter than at least 1/4 of MLB players😂😂 now if only he was fast. This coach is awesome 😀
I really like your stuff, buutt... We gotta acknowledge that this is a lot easier than hitting 110 mph from 60 feet 6 inches. I've tried this also. You don't have to track a 110 mph ball this way. It is closer to being teed up this way because the ball doesn't have to travel as far, and you dont have to account for angle or movement. I don't argue with any of your teachings, though. Good stuff, keep it up.
No way that's 110. I assume he's taking into account how close he is to the machine where the ball is being released . But 110 we would've even be able to see the ball
He said that it’s from a closer distance so it would require about the same reaction time as a ball being thrown from a farther distance but faster speed.
I wouldn't worry about the power. Everyone is different. Give her the mechanics and you'll be doing your job... let the pitcher provide some of the power.
I've watched and enjoyed several of your videos. I still think I can figure out a way to translate your methods into my tee shots for more distance in golf.🤣 Elbow-in is a big deal in golf.
Ok but you not berry bonds or Aaron judge. That swing works for them cause there jacked. Your not and a lot of ppl aren’t that jacked so their swing requires more separation.
I really admire your technique and teaching, but the emphasis you put on the hand-wrist snap i dont see in your swing or your students swing. I have tried this movement with a high tee as you teach but when i swing bat its extremely awkward to a point of impossible. I understand every part of the arc and the close elbow swing but cant implement the wrist snap or knuckles twisting out intitial movement. I really want to get this and teach it. Im like you i had it all wrong in college playing D2 baseball , coach Bud Bales had us swing inside, contact inside of ball and drive to opposite field but it was still mostly arms. Thank you in advance for any additional videos or help with this .
Darrell I feel the hand snap as he calls it can be taught better and simpler. I too struggled with the move but it didn’t feel powerful at all. I then figured out that the hand snap is not only the hand snap, the whole body is used at the launch point to torque the handle of the bat. For years I tilted as instructed but that tilt didn’t get to my handle because my tilt included rotation and weight shift. Focus on using whole body to torque handle towards catchers mask and make that rear leg pivot. Launch with weight back and snap with entire body force on pitchers side of the handle.
my 2 cents after slow motion these swings. yes he sets up with elbow bent or flexed and as ball is coming in he turns his body to square up to hit the ball. but just before and during impact his right elbow and arm are extended out to hit ball with fat part of bat. if he didnt but just turned his body he would miss many outside pitches on the plate for strikes. seems to be a normal swing requiring turning and impacting the ball.as said in other comments this would be a different outcome outside with a pitcher throwing from 60 foot rubber ,not to mention the movement most pitchers put on the ball before it crosses the plate. in golf good golf set up and downswing also usually start off with trail arm /elbow close to body, but to drive the ball with club and impact on club face the arms of necessity extend out to meet the ball on the ground. I dont see anything special in this training,but certainly the setup, timing tempo training can be helpful at all levels. John
TEACHERMAN HAS 1 FOOT OF HEAD DROP. IF ON A DESK TOP, CLICK START AND STOP AS FAST AS YOU CAN, NOT 1005 SLO MO BUT GOOD ENOGH TOS SHOW THAT HIS WRIST IS NOT DOING WHAT HE IS SAYING....IN ALL HIS VIDEOS, HE ALMOST FALLS OVER ON ALL HIS SWINGS.
that’s not easy to do… that’s impressive. i have a tennis ball machine that my boys hit off of at close distance. It’s hard to make that good of contact so consistently from that speed at that distance. seeing is believing.
@@garysimone4977 Using the Settings/playback speed option under the video you can slow it down to .25 speed. I agree, he should have better technology.
Starting the swing with the bat on the shoulder creates the "whip" action Teacherman is talking about. I see that's what he's doing when hitting in the video. The bat on shoulder start and some instruction on the mental approach to hitting is about all a 9 year old kid needs to know. If you start the swing from the correct position and you're aggressive, you're likely to have a positive result. Easy peasy. 🤡🤡
Hello Mr Teacherman, Great concept and sharing. You are generous and I will for sure have my boy give it a try. I believe your theory of hitting works better with fast pitches. Say pitches come in over 90 m/h. For kids, when the ball comes in slow, does it still work well? Or I shall have my kid learn to get patient and wait till the ball flies in? Thank you.
You have your kid wait and then snap with the swing. So yes you have to teach them patience which would allow them to see the ball longer and then decide whether to swing at it or not. But they will have the confidence knowing that if they swing it’s going to be hard contact.
It's easy when uou know what's coming. I agree with what you said about early setup. Timing to the fastball is necessary for timing if the off speed. Fast transition to the fb leads to poor reaction to offspeed.
Yea I don't think he's teaching pitch-type readiness here. If that's page 15, he's just teaching on page 5 here. Knowing the pitch here is better for him demonstrating his point.
Hello you are right about what you are saying people should not criticize I will tell them why but you don't say this but you are doing it ok first look up John Schlee video on Ben Hogan and Jo e Morgan moving into power plane it is a shallower plane THAT puts you into a position to hit it is similar to golf by dropping the ELBOWS into the power plane then hands take over with a final snap hands roll over after contact old guys called it pop of course there are lower body mechanics but I am talking about what you are demonstrating now loading up that back elbow YES ok my father used that he was a minor league star in the 1950s got on the wrong side of Branch Rickey ok heard from many players.he should have been there Dick Wilson ok after playing he became a scout and worked 23 yrs for Giants was also called upon to work hitters his swing very very similar to Ralph Kiner ok at one winter meeting he was talking to others such as Hank Sauer and George Genovese ( who signed Barry Bonds) my dad was describing those moves Frank Robinson walked by and said that's right if you can't do that you can't hit also that move into hitting position you make BEFORE you pop hands through (don't roll over save that for your golf roll over release) gives you a good position for one of the most important things in swing you don't swing you are in position for damage but also position to not chase I am 77 have a pitching machine I set at 41 feet 75+ mph for fast pitch softball they are starting this senior league it throws all kinds of stuff still hitting doubled and home runs my approach is as you described
You desperately need to learn how to use punctuation because that entire paragraph made no sense. Can you even read that back and understand what you wrote? Incredible.
Ok, I’m throwing a flag. I watched a ton of your stuff, and you’ve got a great approach. BUT, your lead arm needs to be completely extended at contact to generate power. The only reason you keep a bent front elbow is to adjust to an inside fastball and avoid getting jammed. You can still hit home runs like this but it’s not ideal. You can’t teach kids to swing like a T-Rex (Sadly, somebody has probably used that analogy to teach). 😅Watch the Japanese players, they’ve figured some shit out.
I have to disagree with this correlation to 115 mph. Math may tell u that. But you have taken out so many variables which makes the correlation irrelevant. Contact that close is not impressive. It’s actually simple. I like some things you say, but this is not right
A lot of haters in this comment section. I really like what @teacherman offers and it feels great to swing this way. For anyone thinking he's a joke, try doing what he's doing in the cage. 67 years old or 21 years old, it's impressive.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 There is no way that's simulating 110mph, maybe 80, but definitely not 110. BTW, easy on a machine that you're familiar with to time it up. Not so easy when a dude is throwing, and lastly, again, easy to barrel it up and make it look good with a flat faced barrel. Smoke and Mirrors people, smoke and mirrors.
@@tmahar77This is a false equivalence. Although the reaction time is technically the same, a greater fraction of the ball’s flight time is spent in the strike zone when the ball is only traveling at 36 mph like the little league pitching seen in the video, so even if you are a little bit late or early, you can still get the barrel around, since the ball is practically floating through the strike zone, which is the same size (front foot to back knee) regardless of how far away the pitcher’s mound is. In contrast, real 110 mph pitching is nearly impossible to track with your eyes and requires near-perfect timing, since it blazes through the strike zone. This guy would be lucky to get a single whiff off of real 110 mph pitching.
@@xyzza2928 -- I was going to comment on the false equivalence principle, but I see you already did. Good post. Yeah, reaction time is the same, but swinging at a 32 mph ball is way easier than swinging at a 100 mph ball. Been there, done that.
Go to the About tab on this RU-vid channel and you can see some contact info there perhaps you can reach him that way. It doesn't seem that he looks much, if at all at RU-vid comments.
bruh thats not actually 110mph... machine equivalent only in reaction time. but everything else... tracking the ball, ball stays longer in the zone, ball slowly rolling on the machine. all makes it easier. its like saying lobbing/serving yourself a ball is like facing 200mph if youre afraid of getting hurt just use a tennis ball or a soft baseball.
Somehow this isn't a satisfying comparison to watching someone trying to hit a 110-mph blazing heater. I get it is the same reaction time, but once you see the ball creep from the machine you can time the beginning of the swing after a couple pitches and then you are back to hitting a 32-mph fastball! If only the machine could have a light flash 10 milliseconds before the ball came out of hiding to pitch, then it would be a good comparison. You are beginning the advancement of the lead foot just as the ball is coming down the ramp and having a general idea where the ball will cross the bat plane doesn't help your discipline IMO!
