Imagine yourself out at the baseball field, sitting on cold metal bleacher seats. Cold is good, because it’s sweltering outside, and thank the Lord you’re sitting under a cool sweet smelling coastal live Oak tree (those found mingling on Stanford University’s campus).
Looking out over the field, you watch as your young hitter bats against an obnoxiously competitive friend of theirs. Coach stands in your dugout with an eager jaw, blank stare, and what looks like Poker shades on that if he were to take them off, would burn a hole in whoever he sets his gaze on.
You take a deep belly breath and relax, because you know things are different now. Your outlook on developing your young hitter has changed. The days are gone of keeping stats because you wanted proof your child should be playing over the coach’s floundering kid.
No more endless hours of researching on the internet, not feeling satisfied with what you find. No more unsupported hitting theories, because a “guru” said so. No more incomplete mechanical drill jigsaw puzzles to fit together. And no more focus on results…but on the gradual improvement of your young developing athlete.
As you watch your son or daughter hit, other parents are congratulating you because your kid is on-deck getting ready to hit their third stand-up double of the day (the first was almost a home-run!).
You feel like there’s a force-field surrounding your child. Protecting them…shielding them from all the drama…all the politics. Now, you’re finally clear headed, and have an explosive rotational power hitting strategy that’s backed by Science. You sit back, and FINALLY enjoy the game.
Listen up fellow hitting enthusiast…Scientists have discovered The Truth About Explosive Rotational Power…
YouTube videos. Google searches. You’ve shamefully undressed Yahoo with your eyes, and because you love their shiny new commercials so much, you’ve frisked Bing too.
Now, you may be new to coaching baseball or softball, lack knowledge by experience, and/or have absolutely no idea where to start. Heck, you probably don’t know WHO to trust with your kid’s swing on the Blogosphere.
We’re consumers of information. I don’t know how we survived without Google and YouTube. They [tech corps] make it so easy nowadays to get the answer to anything…in a flash…and in the palm of your hand.
The information keeps coming, more and more. The internet seems to be a bottomless pit of advice, coming from so many different angles and perspectives…and you love the variety seducing your eyeballs.
But wait…things start to seem contradictory, right? Why so many hitting methods? Why so many drills? Which ones are the most essential to explosive rotational power?
There’s a better solution. A missing link to how the body is designed to move and create that consistent power in the swing.
The hitting information that’s out there is so bullet riddled with slow motion analysis video. We’ve been taught to teach what we see in slow motion video, not what we think we see. This is fine, but as you’ll soon find out, is what’s not seen that really makes the difference in explosive rotational power.
“Load the hips”…”Turn the hips”…”Straighten the front leg”…“Throw the hands.”
Have you heard about these before? Surprisingly, these cues are roadblocks to how the brain efficiently delegates movement.
The brain has a difficult time connecting the dots with cues like these. How the brain coordinates movement is through primal movement patterns, such as: squatting, lunging, stepping, pushing, pulling, bending, and twisting. Hitting is a combination of lunging, stepping, pulling, and twisting.
“Modern Science reveals the brain does not recognize individual muscle activities due to lack of practical purpose.” He adds, “In motor learning of an athletic skill, such as a swing, the muscles develop a pattern after repeated physical motion. This pattern becomes ingrained in the brain so that, at any given time, the motion and mechanics of the swing can be recalled with success.”
Key principals of human locomotion are the same no matter what explosive rotational movement you watch. With hitting, we use a combination of lunging, twisting, pulling, and stepping functional movement patterns.
“You were not only there for my son when a game or practice did not go well, you helped us as parents to understand what was happening and what we could do to help, if anything. This helped with the frustration that we had from a not so good High School coach.” Linda Holt, Prather, CA
Now, I want to apologize in advance…the following will upset A LOT of people. But I can back all of it with proven Science…
Another crucial mistake we make is we analyze the BIG-guy-swing too much. Albert Pujols (6’3”, 230lbs)…Josh Hamilton (6’4”, 225lbs)…Miguel Cabrera (6’4”, 240lbs).
Did you know that according to Wikipedia, the average male height in the US is 5 foot, 10 inches (females 5 foot, 5 inches). And the average male weighs 177 pounds!
The best most consistent explosive rotational power hitters aren’t taller than six foot, AND don’t weigh more than 180lbs.
Hank Aaron at 6’0” 180lbs, in my opinion, did what no other human being on this planet has done on the highest stage for a baseball player with his body size…in 23 years of MLB service, he hit an average of 33 homeruns and 27 doubles per season, and had a career batting average of .305 and OPS of .928.
Sadaharu Oh at 5’10” 175lbs is the career home-run leader in Japanese baseball, with 868 lifetime dingers. With 21 years of professional Japanese baseball service, that’s an average of 41 dingers per year. In today’s game, don’t you think he’d be playing in the US? Maybe not hitting as many homers…
1 ‘ODD Twist’ To Hit With Explosive Rotational Power Found In An Unlikely Place
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