How To Create Backspin | Feel vs. Real

[@nofurtherwest3474]

Great lesson. I'm gonna show this to my 10 yr old.

[@kyler8875]

love this, tried this drill and my swing feels way better

[@fullcountbaseballandsoftba8789]

Yes, this feel drill is awesome. Thanks!

[@rslwannabe9475]

I like to imagine thats how hard i hit the ball.

[@gregsilver1640]

What you are saying in your video is correct and you do not want to be steep to the ball. If you pause your video around 2 minute 39 seconds and pause at launch and then the turn and then contact you are going to see you are very steep and doing what you said exactly not to do. Your hands at set up were above your ears like Trout but unlike Trout whos hands come down to at or below his shoulders like every other mlb player yours stay above your ears at launch and from there you take your hands directly down about a foot to the ball. That makes your swing steep and possibly disconnected. That is contrary to your instructions in the beginning of your video that happen to be correct. And dropping your hands to the shoulder level just before getting to launch is not necessarily dumping the barrel. your hands should be in a sense are an extention of your back shoulder and have a connected swing. Your hands should not be moving up or down as they are coming forward. That can be performed by either lowering your hands before launch during the stride like many old time hitters or preferably these days via hip hinge and setting your path or plane via your hip hinge creating the correct plane for your shoulders and bat to be on for a powerful connected swing with the barrel getting in the zone early and staying in long for power and consistency respectively. Your instruction in the beginning is correct and your swing motion is not nor as you instructed. Opposite of the common feel vs real when they say swing down but actually swing on plane and correctly. One last thing the correct swing is the swing that gets the batter good results. It is not a one size fits all. Yes 99 percent of mlb players have the same swing from launch position and are on plane and connected with the barrel turning behind them deep in the zone but that does not mean it is correct for everyone. If a player can hit for high average and power with a steep disconnected swing or even a slow pitch softball swing or whatever than that is the correct swing. I am not a math or physics teacher nor a "hitting instructor " I am only some guy. Some guy that may know a little about hitting baseballs. Maybe not. And btw "hitting instructors" are funny. Since there are no required schooling and exams and licensing requirements people simply say they are a hitting instructor and start instructing or take a job as a hitting instructor even with an mlb team or likely milb team first or earlier but most of the time online and little kids with nobody to be able to say much. Tomorrow maybe I am going to become an astronaut and the day after a dr and this way when I make a comment on a video I can start my comment by saying I am an astronaut and that is not how to properly fly a rocket to the moon or I am a dr and it is not the correct way to perform plastic surgery. People are bananas. Keep up the good work bud your instruction is spot on. Fix the path in the video though. Be good

[@fullcountbaseballandsoftba8789]

Thanks for watching!

[@nofurtherwest3474]

You are confused. The only reason his bath path is like that is because the tee is so high. His path is correct.

[@rslwannabe9475]

Swing down to create backspin!! -DrugLord2000

[@RickDavis-nu3rf]

Sorry but I am a hitting instructor and your explanation of back spin is inconsistent with the physics and geometry of hitting.

[@fullcountbaseballandsoftba8789]

Why are you sorry if you believe what you believe? So, are you a hitting instructor or a physics and mathematics major? Or, all three?

[@nofurtherwest3474]

You gotta explain yourself buddy. Don't just say inconsistent. Explain why and how because what you say doesn't make sense.