Great Hitting Drill to Shorten Swing Path

The "Noode Drill" is a great drill to shorten swing. It is part of the Coach's Companion Series: Winning Baseball Book/DVD.
Visit www.coachescompanion.com for details. This drill is taught by Tim Hyers who is a former Big League player, top hitting instructor in the south east, and Area Scout for the Boston Red Sox.

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[pax2bag]

Haha I like that epic music for the ground ball

[1gsfan1]

ok, tell us metsfan861...what IS the primary power source. I need to know.

[MrYojoe75]

WOW!!! You guys are killing me. You can hit a basebal a couple different ways. I agree with whoever said not everyone is a home run hitter. But, everyone can hit the ball hard. Watch some video. The good hard hits, the batter is extending through the ball. That is, they are in the process of extending their arms when contact is made, but the don't finish the extension until after contact is made. Ted Williams or Tony Gwynn both learned from watching everyone.

[themetsfan861]

@noahmcdx: what if I was to tell you that rotation (as you define it) is not the primary power source?

[1gsfan1]

@coachmongero Well said Coach. Everyone wants to point out how they know more than the next guy and they have "figured it out". There is definitely no carbon copy swing available. But I love that nowadays we can go through this exercise with video and have the argument/discussion. Not in my day. And in going through it, a guy like Tony Gwynn studying video every day and performing at THE highest level comes up with a completely different view than a guy like Epstein.

[coachmongero]

@noahmcdx -Do you think you are the only person that watches hitting video in super slow motion? Get a grip my friend. We agree that rotation has a significant role in hitting and especially hitting for power. Hitting (from start to finish) is a combination of rotational and linear forces. Rotation plays a critical element in being short and quick to contact. Are you a big league or college hitting coach? If you are so good, why is everyone missing the boat with your superior knowledge?

[coachmongero]

I'm not going to get in a pissing contest with you. However, to make my point...are you are saying that Ichiro and Bonds have the same swing and approach? I say NO. Also, does Wade Boggs and Bonds have the same swing? I don't think so. Are they all successful big league hitters? YES. My point made. I'm not arguing that many power hitters hit as you described. However, not everyone has the role of hitting HR's on every swing. Done with this conversation as promised in my first post.

[noahmcdx]

@kingcoach13 I left out an answer to, "how does he see him do that?"

He judges a players swing when he's swinging with great batspeed, because he has seen so many swings. So he can tell what a hitter is doing wrong not because he sees higher fps or anything, just because that hitter looks generally similar to nearly every other hitter that makes those mistakes.

[noahmcdx]

@kingcoach13 and what is that even supposed to mean? Argue with events as they occur? The average human eye sees about 90 fps, with motion blur. So in other words, when a coach sees things really well in a hitters swing, and you think, how does he see him do that? That's why batspeed fools us when we're watching a hitter. The faster the swing, the less we can see. Often times swings that look good in real time, look terrible when slowed down - even with a 60 fps camera. Now try 3000.

[noahmcdx]

@kingcoach13 Physics class most likely won't tell them how force from rotation compares to the force from linear movements. But from their learned knowledge, they may be able to figure it out by using the formulas that they were taught & comparing them. Still, there has been extensive scientific testing done. But regardless, I am 15 years old. No physics class, not a genius, just a rotational-mechanics-teaching coach & I took it upon myself to do research because I want to get better.