Name: Playbook - Vic Ferrante - 45° Angle Hitting Drill
Uploaded: 2022-12-16T07:32:42.067Z
Duration: 15 min
Description: 45° Angle Hitting Drill

Perform drill for 15-30 repetitions in 3-5 swings at a time. A quality rep will result in a backspin line drive up the middle or slight oppo.

Helps with…
✅Create stretch
✅Hip coil
✅Direction
✅Hitting oppo

Reduces…
🚫Roll overs
🚫Weak oppo flares
🚫Early weight shift

Setup: 

- Stand at a 45° from home plate (as if pitcher is at shortstop) 

- Feet wider than shoulder width apart with slight bend in the knees

- Hands in front of chest

- Begin to turn/coil and allow your front heel to lift and rotate for better range of motion

- Coil until your upper body is square to the plate with front chin on shoulder

- FEEL yourself coiling around your back hip

- When at max stretch/coil, FIRE!

- Try to keep your head in the same place from max coil through your finish

- Explode to the ball from your back side

- Goal is hit backspin line drives from Gap-To-Gap, preferably Center to slight oppo

Tips: 
Perform this drill slow and smooth until the point of full stretch, then QUICK LAUNCH! 

DO NOT try to hit ball hard, just execute the drill by taking controlled swings

Helps:

✅Create stretch
✅Stacking backside
✅Hip coil
✅Direction
✅Hitting oppo

Reduce:
🚫Roll overs
🚫Weak oppo flares
🚫Early weight shift

Setup: 

- Stand at a 45° from home plate (as if pitcher is at shortstop) 

- Feet wider than shoulder width apart with slight bend in the knees

- Hands in front of chest

- Begin to turn/coil and allow your front heel to lift and rotate for better range of motion

- Coil until your upper body is square to the plate with front chin on shoulder

- FEEL yourself coiling around your back hip

- When at max stretch/coil, FIRE!

- Try to keep your head in the same place from max coil through your finish

- Explode to the ball from your back side

- Goal is hit backspin line drives from Gap-To-Gap, preferably Center to slight oppo

Tips: 
Perform this drill slow and smooth until the point of full stretch, then QUICK LAUNCH! 

DO NOT try to hit ball hard, just execute the drill by taking controlled swings

45° Angle Hitting Drill

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