Name: Playbook - Jordan Verdon - Impact position Workout 2
Uploaded: 2024-01-09T21:15:23.305Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Impact position Workout 2

This workout is focused on how you impact the baseball and how you hold that position through contact.

- Start with PVC in the creases of the arm
- Get into a string launch position 
- Touch the end of the PVC to the middle of the tee 
- Focus on keeping the feet anchored in the ground and using your core/hips to hold posture over the plate

PVC Tee Touches

- Keeping front foot anchored in the ground, try and hit the wiffel ball off the tee up the middle (do not have to swing hard) 
- Main goal is to keep your head down, while keeping your feet anchored in the ground
- This will help you check your posture over the plate
- Great to add this to any hitting routine/workout and a warmup

PVC Half Swings

- This drill is for guys needing to clean up their impact position. 
- You’re only allowed half a swing but need to still hit a line drive to the back of the cage. 
- Hold the angles in your arms and at contact your arms need to remain bent on pitches down the middle (changes slightly with pitch height/type). 
- Highly recommend doing this drill on tee and flips!!!

Half Swings

- Thus drill is very similar to the split grip 3/4 swings but now we are taking away the help of the split grip. Be able to control the barrel of the bat from a normal grip without rolling over/slicing the ball. 
- Swing the bat and keep your palm up facing the pitcher after your swing. 
- This 3/4 swing with allow you to see if your swing path is working up the middle or you are cutting your swing across the zone or up and through the zone. 
- Focus on backspinning balls to the middle of the field while keeping your chest over the plate with good balance.

3/4 Swings

- Keeping the feet glued to the ground work on finding where true center is in the swing 
- Helps hitters swing from their middle (core/pelvis) rather than arms/hands pushing bc the anchoring of the feet takes the over rotational aspect of the swing out of the picture 
- Also great for working on a hitters launch position 
- Feel the swing firing from back hip/core rather than hands/shoulders trying to deliver the barrel

Feet Anchored (on ground)

- Everyone needs a short bat!!
- Can be used on tee or flips. 
- I recommend this tool to every single hitter. 
- Cleans up bat path, extension through the ball (because you have less length of the bat to get away with improper swing path), posture (for the same reason as above), impact position… lost goes on and on.
- Get yourself a short bat (Birdman short bat is my favorite and what I use) or just choke up on your bat until it’s about 3-5 inches shorter than normal. 
- Put tee down and away for a crazy hard challenge!!

Short Bat

- Heavy balls are amazing for checking how guys impact the baseball. 
- Do you cut across the ball, flare it to right, push the hands etc.
- With the heavy balls an improper palm up/palm down position will be exposed! 
- Focus on impacting the center of the ball in a strong contact position (arms bent and behind the front leg) and getting it all the way to the back of the cage in the air or past the pitchers mound if you’re on a field. 
- If you want to really make it hard use a short bat or choke up a lot on your full length bat to challenge the impact position even more.

Heavy Balls

- Having the ball pitched almost feeling like it’s behind you, makes the goal of hitting a line drive up the middle extremely difficult. 
- You are forced to make a tight, connected backside move (back elbow to bellow button) and then keep good direction up the middle. 
- Think palm up to the pitcher without spinning your shoulders to hit this ball up middle.

Front Angle Toss

- This drill is designed to feed the mistake of over rotating and spinning off the ball
- With the angle set across from you it makes it very easy to cut across the zone and pull the ball with top spin
- Your job is to make a tight connected move (palm up to the pitcher, back elbow to belly button) and hit this ball on a line yo the middle
- Don’t cheat and dive across the plate to hit it. Stride as if the pitch is still coming from a normal mound

Open Angle Toss

- Controlled underhand flips are a great tool to add movement to the pitch in a controlled environment while working on new swing changes and feels. 
- At this point of the workout, I want you to try a couple (or all if you’re feeling up for it) of the tee drills you were working on on the first few round or two of flips. 
- After the feels and mechanics round, go to closer to your game swing and set up/load while keeping in mind the feels you just created in previous drills. 
- REMEMBER- the goal is to get better at game like swings. Don’t get too caught up on the drills and try and use them to blend into your game swing! 💪🏼

Underhand Flips

- Time to compete!! 
- Game like mentality
- Game like loading and approach
- GOAL- Hit doubles and low line drives while blending in the new swing mechanics or feels you’re working on.

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