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What's up guys?
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Coach Madden, official trainer, YouGoProBaseball.com and today we've got 3 things that you should
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never do when hitting or 3 things that your coaches, I hear a lot of coaches say, that
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are not true.
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I've got Coach Nick Shaw here.
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He played with the Brewers organization last year.
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He was a lead off hitter, a great hitter.
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He also runs a travel team, the St. Pete Stingers, and they're starting an 11u team this year
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so if you're an 11u player in the St. Pete area or surrounding area, please check him
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out at thebattersbox.co on Instagram or his website thebattersbox.co.
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Now, at the youth level, I understand that a lot of you coaches are volunteers and maybe
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haven't played that much baseball or have gone that far or are that knowledgable, you're
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just helping out and are doing what you can and we appreciate that and we appreciate all
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the help and support that you bring to this sport, but these 3 things, if you're doing
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them, please stop, because they're not right.
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The first thing that I always see is squish the bug.
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Coaches say squish the bug, turn the hips, squish the bug, hips, hips, hips, turn the
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hips.
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What do you think about that?
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How does it really work and what are you supposed to being doing?
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So, they're telling them to squish the bug, which then opens this hip up, opens the shoulder
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up, and everything flies this way.
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Instead of staying inside the ball and trying to drive everything to the middle of the field.
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Like I referenced earlier Bryce Harper and Mike Trout, if you watch them in videos, great
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hitters, they're coming through like this on the toe, Bryce Harper is in the air, Mike
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Trout is dragging the the back foot.
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So please drive this back leg with your hands, instead of rotating around the ball.
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The second thing that I always hear too is coaches saying swing down on that ball or
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even have a level swing.
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How actually should the swing be?
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So the whole swinging down thing I believe is what they thought when they were talking
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about the knob starts down to the ball and then the bat comes, however they translate
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it different and actually think that kids should actually be swinging down or otherwise
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swinging up or whatever they're teaching.
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It should be behind the baseball, behind the baseball as long as you can.
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It's not going to be a completely level swing because the ball isn't coming at a completely
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level plane.
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So we should be behind the ball and in the path of the ball as long as we can.
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That's a great one and the 3rd thing that I always hear is get your elbow up.
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Get that elbow up, get that elbow up little Johnny, get that elbow up.
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But how does this really work?
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So the elbow up thing is very common in little league as you said.
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The first thing that happens is again, the bat starts to drop and we're tight as you
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can see we come around the ball.
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The first action for your back elbow is to get into the slot here so the further we get
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cranked up here the further we have to go to get in the slot and you see what happens
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to the barrel of the bat when we do.
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So keep it tight here, right into the slot.
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I don't know about you but I see a lot of big league guys but when they are up there
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they kind of bring those elbows together almost like when they're getting ready kind of staying
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nice and tight.
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You do see a lot of guys getting up there pretty high but you can see when they get
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that load and the elbow comes back, they're still a lot tighter and not up and back this
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way.
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Those are great points there.
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I really appreciate it.
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Again, if you're an 11u player in the St. Pete area you want to check out the Stingers.
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Coach Nick is going to be coaching this year and don't forget to go check out his website
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thebattersbox.co also his instagram @thebattersbox.co he's got some great stuff over there and if
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you haven't already, please hit that subscribe button, click my logo right here, then click
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the subscribe button.
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Go check out my most recent video over here.
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Leave Coach Nick and I a comment below and let us know which of these 3 things you've
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heard before, which ones you do or don't do, and name some other ones.
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I know there's some other ones put them down there I want to hear them.
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We'll talk to you guys down there.
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Thanks
