Hitting a Baseball - The Love of Hitting

How to Master the Art of Baseball Hitting – Baseball Batting Made Easy Through Baseball Hitting Fundamentals , Baseball Hitting Aids and Baseball Batting Instruction

Like most men my age, I learned how to hit a baseball from my father.  Baseball hitting was learned without any baseball hitting aids.  There were no individual hitting skill books and no baseball hitting instructional videos to watch again and again.  While my father was terrific with the repetition - throwing the ball again and again while I repeatedly hit it, he lacked the ability to teach me any more than he had learned from his father.  What he lacked in coaching ability he more than made up for in the most important area of all – developing the love for hitting a baseball. 

As I moved from little league baseball into high school baseball I came in contact with coaches who were true students of the game. They used all the latest training aids, they videotaped every swing in practice sessions and then took the time to break down my swing to show me what I was doing well and what needed the most work.  Much of the time they would improvise and develop a hitting drill to help me overcome flaws in my swing.  Some of the concepts they taught are still popular today.  They also challenged all that I had learned and introduced me to new baseball hitting techniques that proved to help me to enjoy the game even to this day.  The batting techniques discussed on the following pages will help to improve the skills of any player.  The skills are intended to be reinforced by the use of the hitting training aids and hitting instructional videos at the end of this section.

As a lifetime student of hitting I’ve always believed that the players of today can never know too much about the art of hitting a baseball.  Only through constant education can players truly develop a swing into all that it can be. We all know the players with the sweet swing. The "sweet swing" player has a hitting swing that is often hard to describe but when you see it, it is beautiful.  I want to take the time to help all players have that type of swing.  The type of swing that not only helps players to look good while they are hitting the baseball, but also to be the most efficient in delivering their total power into each swing, resulting in great hits and hitting success.  The more time that a player spends working to develop the proper mechanics the better the player will be in pressure filled game situations.  This is true in all sports but none so much as in baseball.  No team sport puts as much pressure on any individual as does baseball.  When all is said and done, it is just the batter and the pitcher starting every play.  Nothing can be more distressing to a young player than to lack the proper fundamentals to be successful in that situation.  Following these principles can develop their baseball hitting skills to a successful level and to the point where they love the game for the rest of their life – that is what my father wanted for me out of the game.  We have also included several drills to help develop the fundamentals of hitting a baseball and to provide the necessary skills to train the young players on what to do when they do not have the benefit of a coach standing at their side.

The baseball hitting concepts on the following pages are intended for players of all levels from the little leagues to major leaguers.  The goal is for you to be able to develop a swing that suits your capabilities and allows you to manage to hit with authority in all areas of the strike zone.  I invite you to read the following pages with the thought towards forgetting what you have learned about hitting in the past.  With that thought you can study the following pages and become the best hitter you can be.

Now that we have begun our discussion on how to master baseball hitting, making baseball batting easy through baseball hitting fundamentals , baseball hitting aids and baseball batting instruction -  let’s continue our discussion of the proper baseball hitting technique by Selecting the Right Baseball Bat for your body type and swing strength.

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