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Baseball, like all sports, teaches valuable life lessons to players. It teaches them how to struggle with adversity, communicate with teammates, and deal with failure. Here’s what David Jacobson has to say about the kinds of lessons people learn from playing sports.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look quite a bit like a nail. Many times, the reason an athlete has a bad game has nothing to do with their swing. But oftentimes, the only solution a coach has is to change the athlete’s swing—though that’s often not the right solution.
There are tons of reasons you could have a bad game that are unrelated to your swing. A coach should try to exhaust as many of those options as possible before resorting to swing changes. Unfortunately, many simple things—like adjusting your swing’s aiming point or doing basic visual training exercises—are under-taught and largely unknown by most baseball coaches. As a result, changing the swing is often the only tool in the coach’s toolbox.
That’s okay—this isn’t the coach’s full-time job. But as a player, you need to understand that changing your swing every week is never going to be helpful.
A lot of people swear by taking the first pitch. Here’s why that’s probably not your best strategy.
The swing up/swing down debate is not nuanced enough. We really need to be thinking about where the athlete is now and where they’re trying to get to.
Also, for older athletes—how well do they rotate?
If they rotate at an elite level, they may need to think “swing down” in order to achieve an attack angle that is functional. Elite-level rotation usually causes the athlete to swing up quite a bit, so that often needs to be managed.
If you rotate well and sequence, well, you don’t need some magic, upper body move to hit away as well.
If you’re someone who has a ton of pull-side juice as a young athlete, you need to watch this!
Do you need to learn to go the other way? Yes, but with moderation. Don’t be so focused on going the other way that you lose the thing you do at a truly elite level.
To be honest, most people who do really well on away pitches rotate in sequence really well.
And frankly, those who have a specific way of teaching people to go the other way usually focus so much on hand path that rotation goes away.
Jake Wald is right on the money here.
Mechanics are something that you should work on in practice, but if you’re ever thinking about them in games, that is a huge problem.
A great swing thought for young athletes is to try to hit the ball right back at the pitcher.
Why? Because it helps you get on plane with the ball. If you think about swinging your bat where the ball is coming from, you end up swinging with a pretty good bat path.
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