Educated Feet

⚫️Angle #6 - Controlling the V-Cut Backhand

🟡Trying to teach infields how to be athletic through multiple different angles.
▶️The more options they have, the more they will be able to adjust when the ball is hit off the bat.
▶️This is a ball they can not push around, set up up for the hop and allow momentum to transition back to bag.

🔑Defining the Approach for infielders is everything. They won’t do what they don’t know. Give them outlets.

💭Would you advise a hitter steps to the plate without an approach? An idea of what he wants to do?
▶️Game will tell you approach.
1️⃣What type of hitter?
2️⃣Whats he trying to do today?
3️⃣What was his last outcome?
4️⃣Whos on the mound?
5️⃣What situation am I in?

▶️Now go be GREAT

🟡Angle #3 - Closed Backhand

⚫️Continues to progress off our routine windows. This ball is 8-12 feet inside our box. BE GREAT IN THE WINDOW.

▶️Highly underrated movement in the infield.
▶️Focused on adjusting back towards the target.
▶️Gives secondary outlet on hard ground balls, and a soft angle (not gaining ground)

💭Moving away from the baseball, how do I get my direction pulled back? What happened is if I can’t push through the baseball?

🔑FOOTWORK
🪨Plant off right foot, direct to the left foot
▶️Align the steps in rhythm to control the base
▶️Feet and hips have to get set back to the target

How would you attack the backhand?

🟡Angle #2 can determine how high your ceiling. Start on the open hand run through and move to set up.

🔑Starting with the run through #1 and moving into the set up #2 creates good habits with how they stride. Take normal steps. Shortening and lengthening those steps depends on set up, direction, angle, and style of play.
▶️Control environment
▶️Isolate the feet
▶️Slow down and speed up the eternal clock.
▶️Get creative with finishing

⚫️Making the routine play consistently means your preparation and readiness are working together. That routine angle happens in many different ways throughout the year.

💭How often do you head straight into fungos? No hip mobility, no hands progression, no preparation of the feet, just rolling out.

Do you take BP before a game?