Blog: Baseball Hitting Drills Discussed
Hitting Instruction, Batting Drills, Tips, Technique and More!
For Softball and Baseball players alike.
Choosing a Hitting Instructor
Many times, as I talk about here, parents tend to assume that most all instructors understand “the basics “, as I have heard it phrased often.
Thoughts About the Current State of Hitting Instruction
The phrase of “how the body works” is a simple way of saying that in order to really understand how someone swings a bat, one needs to have at minimum, some understanding as to how forces and movements are actually being created to move the bat.
Hitting Drills For Girls and Boys: What’s the Difference?
What I am getting at is whether it’s a male or female the musculoskeletal system is essentially the same. And that means that whether it is a male or female, there are ways to utilize the form and function of the human body to swing a bat in a very effective manner.
He Did It – A Proud Baseball Dad and Hitting Coach
Proud Dad announces Son makes college baseball team and how Steve Englishbey’s baseball hitting instruction and drills was a major factor in his son’s hitting success!
3 Factors That Make Up A Good Baseball Hitting Drill
So, here’s a simple question: How do you measure the effectiveness of a baseball hitting drill?
Pretty early on in my pursuit, I began to see and understand elite level swings by applying the kinds of concepts that I was familiar with and used as a trainer working with non-baseball athletes in developing effective baseball and softball hitting drills.
What Is The Current State Of Hitting Instruction?
Ok, let’s start here: I think that the reason elite level hitter’s swing the bat really well has little to nothing to do with the kinds of cues that are commonly heard from Little League fields all the way to Major League Baseball.
An Experiment? Yeah! So What’s In an Elite Baseball Swing Anyway?
I AM saying that I swing the bat much more like an elite level hitter as a 50 plus year old guy, compared to when I was a 20 year old guy.
Hi, I'm Steve Englishbey. One of my biggest passions in life is teaching elite level swing mechanics to players, parents and coaches. I'm a former first round pick of the Houston Astros. I swing better now as a 50 something than I did when I was 20. I wanted to create a site where I could help baseball and softball players reach their hitting potential. I believe each player has control over his or her destiny and can choose to develop elite swing mechanics by putting in smart effort and training to move their bodies and perform like elite baseball and softball players.