Baseball Batting Stance & Hitting Techniques : Turning the Back Foot to Hit a Baseball

[Ogrenvideos]

vese video toot me how to play

[derek1998hess]

If you're stepping out , what's the besy way of not doing that ? - Thankss

[wandfreak13]

Heee!!! PERPENDICULAR!!! That's a big word for an athlete lol

[wogdoggy]

run away from the spin..if you spin you'll never win..

[ChrisKOLeary]

No good hitter's back foot actually does what he demonstrates.

[PANTHERSFAN8995]

next week on expertvillage : taking a shit 

[basesathletevideo]

Good dialogue. Food for thought...do not worry about rotating or spinning on your back foot. The longer your foot can stay on the ground the more range of motion one has, thus more power!!! Hitting (and throwing) begins as a linear action. Take the back hip directly toward your target and let the foot follow. Please don't "sit and spin".

[wogdoggy]

your back foot is pulled up when your hands go past your mid section....you are rotating improperly..put a bottle behind your right foot when you swing ..if you hit the bottle you are bug squishing and not getting proper weight shift..from what i can see you;ll be knocking over the bottle..

[cdfrx]

Thanks Eric great information for a beginning coach.

[Indoooooo]

This guy said turn ur back foot because it helps u open ur hips. If the goal is to open ur hips, wouldnt it be more effective to turn ur front foot? Anyways, You guys are right, squishing the bug will kills players future. Weight transfer with trained rotational mechanics are what gets it done. Not these terrible linear mechanics

[vegasgolf25]

I agree with funkyfresh. You are to drive you back knee at the ball and you actually do come up on your toe with your leg looking like a backwards "L". Look up pics of major league hitters at contact to understand what I mean. I am a hitting instructor in Las Vegas and played D-1 in Louisiana

[nemjeff13]

I am a top division 1 hitter, who studies major leaguers extensively...you do not spin the back foot! you drive through the ball, finally someone who knows.

[ronineditor]

@nemjeff13

Um, no... you're wrong. This video is absolutely correct... you don't think you turn on your back foot!? Being such an "expert," what MLB hitters have you been watching!? You drive with your FRONT foot (hips explode open on the swing), the back foot spins on the ball and your knee and foot should be pointed toward the pitcher when you're done swinging... "expert."

(I might not be a "top D1 hitter" but I play semi-pro ball.)

[tyleroksanen]

@nemjeff13 really? top division 1 hitter? is that why I can find nothing about you on the internet? and watch your own video, you spin your back foot. its funny how you have to use youtube as an ego booster.. but also very sad

[BaseballFanatic35]

whats the point of the bat on the plate? You don't use it during the video. Perkingman12 you are right.

[funkyfreshification]

you're not supposed to squish the bug..u wanna do the same thing with your foot as you do with a golf swing. that way you're energy is transferring forward and not back

[bkh3535]

agree with funky.. you have no clue what your talking about.. how about turn on your tv one time and watch a big leaguers hit... no one spins on the back foot.. you have to create torque to have power, that comes from the back leg DRIVING the weight INTO the front leg.. most big leaguers have their back foot slightly off the ground or up on their toe at contact because the weight has shifted... your foot spins then your weight stays on the back leg with no weight transfer, Stop messing kids up!

[funkyfreshification]

thank you sir.

[ronineditor]

@bkh3535 Maybe you're not understanding what people are talking about by spinning on their backfoot... in the video, he is correctly saying you pivot on your back foot as you drive with your front leg. How would you be moving your back foot anyway? Running at a pitch? It stays put, it should be pointing forward by the end of the swing... your front leg locked straight, weight over it..

[freestyle5000]

right cuz that means all the weight is on your backfoot

[QuelDanas]

now this guy is a good teacher, now i understand y i was offbalance

[bombman256]

pekingman12 is right. you aren't supposed to 'squish the bug' but get the weight off of your back leg, but it's all timing, do it too early, and you are on your front foot, but do it perfect, and you drop bombs. Simple as that.

[jiminyc86]

pekingman12, releasing the weight off the back foot causes an inbalance and cause the player to 'lung' forward! keeping the weight back allows the hitter to generate more power by staying balanced. if all their power of leaning forward on the front foot then you generally see them popping the ball up or swinging way too early, out in front of the ball. keeping the weight back on the back foot gives a hitte more control over his swing, more power and ultimately more contact. Contact over power!

[ozunasox]

hahaha no dont squish the bug!!

[RWDSJ]

dude do you know how retarded you must be to think you will get more power by not transfering your weight and staying back will not get you power. now you stay back and once you are going to make contact at that split second transfer weight so you drive through the ball.

[nwilder08]

Alright, well consider this video is teaching proper technique I seriously doubt that anyone here's looking to drop bombs any time soon. I play for a recreational league and I'm trying to improve my swing for qaulity contact. I'll never crank a home run, but learning to turn that single into a double will help. Let me know when you guys make it to the big leagues though, douchebags.

[axle6011]

It's not about the bug or the foot at all. Some instructors like to have the batter focus on the "bug squishing" as a means to open the hips.

It's hip rotation that generates the power.

[gamerx456]

your right axle6011 i play competively and during practice one day i hit a ball at least 400 feet. i know for a fact im not a guy with rippling muscles and after i hit the ball my coach told all my other teammates thats what happens with good hip rotation. so i know for a fact it was hip rotation that generated the power

[pekingman12]

Wow, you really want people to squish the bug???? Last time i checked releasing the weight off your back foot generated more hitting power than rotating off your line of force. I hope people do not pay any money for this rotate on your back foot advice....

[chickenandrice50]

2nd

[doconer1]

Kool.

[ddh0426]

first view!