Helps:
✅Create MAX stretch
✅Stacking backside
✅Hip coil
✅Direction
✅Hitting oppo
Reduce:
🚫Roll overs
🚫Weak oppo flares
🚫Early weight shift
Setup:
- Stand at a 90° from home plate (as if pitcher is at 3B)
- 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