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How to Swing on Plane for Baseball and Fastpitch Softball

The ability to swing the bat at the same level as the trajectory of the incoming pitch improves ball exit velocity and the frequency of hard-hit balls (HHB%). Click below for a free article found on our skill-building guide website:

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How to Establish a Monthly Assessment Process
Baseball and Fastpitch Softball

If the coach is consistent with monthly assessment, the baseball or fastpitch softball hitter becomes more motivated to practice purposefully. For example, after four weeks, when an athlete sees that they have gained three mph of exit velocity, it validates their hard work, and they know that the training works. Click below for the free goal setting article: on our skill-building guide website:

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After a couple of years of trying to hit a pitch, which is traveling slowly and dropping steeply as it crosses the plate, many young hitters develop a substantial uppercut (as well as bat drag – image above). The hitter intuitively feels the necessity to swing up to match the pitch’s dropping plane if they want to make contact consistently and hit the ball further.

But, as the hitter gets older and faces faster and flatter pitching, habitual dipping results in missing under the ball, especially on waist-high and up pitches. The extreme uppercut swing path no longer matches the trajectory of the now faster pitch.

This hitting article identifies drills and concepts to quickly improve swing patterns.

Fix Dipping Under the Ball - Concepts and Drills - Building Rome Series This hitting article identifies how an unproductive dipping habit arises along with drills and concepts to quickly improve the swing pattern.