Batting Overview

Drill and Tee Work - Approach

We break the swing down into four parts:

  1. Knee

  2. Elbow

  3. Wrist

  4. HINGE (Bottom Hand)

When doing No Bat Drills or taking a series of Swings on the Tee, we focus on one part of the swing. The objective is to improve the actions of that part.

Examples:

  • Switch Heels (coordinating the initial action of the Legs in the swing)

  • Sideways Karate Chop (Elbow-Hand….Elbow action preceding the sideways-chop action of the hand)

  • Skip-a-Rock (snapping the top-hand Wrist straight forward)

  • Hands inside the ball (focus on the Bottom Hand pointing along the line to the inside edge of the ball)

We can also focus on the coordination between two parts of the swing.

Examples:

  • Heel-Elbow (driving the front Heel back, while driving the back Elbow/Funny Bone forward)

  • Elbow-Wrist (the sequence of the Elbow driving first, followed by the Wrist snap)

Swing workout structure; three formats:

  1. Sets of swings (5-10 reps) focusing on each of the four parts, followed by sets focusing on the coordination of two parts (e.g. ‘Knee-Elbow’)

  2. Sets of swings focusing on one part (or the coordination of the sequence of two parts) that a batter wants to give particular attention

  3. Brief sets of drills & swings addressing each part of the swing (‘warm-up), followed by more focused work on one part or the coordination between two parts