maybe the elbow leading the hands is: just the elbow going forward while the hands drag.

think when you put on your uniform, "I am the best player on this team" and in this ballpark. Focus intensely in the moment on what you are doing pre-game. Make it happen. Decide early whether you are going to swing or not.

scap load

keep the scap load during the swing to keep the hands back. rotate from the back hip.

be worried about not fucking up.

stay back, head still, get separation.

forget about your swing, just focus on the pitcher.

i need to learn how to pick up right handers release points

think about rotating the hip on the ball of the femur.

focus, intensity in the moment. build some anger over something and put it to work.

engrain what you are doing right now so you never forget it.

Its about the rear arm staying vertical and the bat rotating around it. The rear arm moves, it doesn’t just rotate the forearm, but the bat comes through flat and level.

Flat hands, and release barrel. Stay back on your back foot. Don’t jump out- rotate at the beginning/

Don’t cock the bathead

stay through the ball

flat hands like when you swing up.

Start your swing immediately. Stay through the ball.

flat hands - start your swing without any movement- just go

take a pitch with no movement and get the release point

you HAVE to have an undying belief that YOU will get the job done and that great things will happen. At All Times.

not be addicted to nicotine is life goal #1

stay through the ball

this pitch, this moment

you are swinging every pitch!

relentless chip on your shoulder

relentless desire to prepare

love the moment

not scared of the moment, or timid, hoping

love the moment- want the moment more than anything else

get on the plate. thats why you can't see the ball.

swing to take

time your swing with the pitcher's arm coming around

time the pitch with your rotation

load early

see the ball

-in your head, focus on seeing the ball and swinging early, not getting a hit. you should have no thoughts of getting a hit, just on seeing the ball early and getting the bathead out

- get the arms back when the rear hip fires.

bend in your legs. like an athlete

fucked up balls in the field

overthrown cuts

made baserunning mistakes

not gotten down bunts

missed signs

lower batting average

The guys who play get better

1. A non-parental hardiness role model - hardiness is learned from a significant other

2. Cautious optimism - avoid foolhardy risk-taking

3. Problem-commitment - tenacious mental and emotional engagement

4. Social commitment - maintain a deep and abiding commitment to family and friends

5. Challenge - rugged individualism committed to a greater objective

6. Control - emotionally and mentally competent through a flexible explanatory system

7. Knowing when to give up control - let go of things beyond control and move on

i need to prepare for every game like i am going to play so that when I do play, I will be ready.

see the ball as well as possible. after the game, evaluate only how well you saw the ball. In the outfield, lock in on every pitch. evaluate only how well you locked in on every pitch after the game.

Only evaluate your focus and your discipline and your intensity after the game. nothing else.

Feed your mind positive images only and be intense. that is all you need to focus on.

albert pujols like intensity- its the 7th game of the world series.. create your own intensity. get a knack for it.

if you are going to be a big leaguer, you will have to fight for every inch. Focus on seeing the ball a long time and right out of the hand.

get in the zone so that everything else in your life goes away, intense focus on what you are dong, and you don't hear anything

watch yourself do what you want to do

dont be a perfectionist.

i see the world as an open canvus. what i need to do is decide what type of player and what type of person i need to be.

As a player, I want to be a serious player. I want to take the game serious and out-work and out hustle every player on the field. I aslo want to be dependable and reliable. I also want to play hard and hustle like my pants are on fire. I also want to play every game like its my last- very hard, aggressive, scared shitless, nervous, etc.

i need to work on the hierarchy of needs to keep myself mentally able.

its about when you achieve success, you already know that you were going to get there and its not a particularly big deal

Its above leveraging the bat with the back arm, from the back. Its about rotating the bat around the back forearm and not the hands pushing the bat.

Don’t pull with the back arm either.

Get the hips firing first and the bat swiveling earlier, and only resisting the rotation of the hips wit the shoulders

Swivel as you rotate the upper body

How you link seperation is by swiveling as the body turns the hands around

Swivel as the hips turn

When you achieve your highest goals, you feel as though it’s a completion of a task you already knew you could do and not a particularly big deal

Shoulder tilt

Hips

More stretch

The swing happens perpendicular to the hips

Focus on the bat rotating arou

nd the hand, and not pushing the bat through

Walked into it

Jut left arm

Drills I used: start in seperation and use the insider

Separate and start bat the right way

Separate above shoulder on one knee

Swivel bat perpendicular to hips

Lower body- load hip, drive knee through, get hips full rotation

The focus is on winning, not on your performance or anything else. Dustin Ackley couldn't tell you what he was hitting, probably because he cared about the team more than himself.

get your hands back, away from your body, behind your shoulder. Get your elbow relaxed, but ready to throw the bathead. get wide and on your backside. Seperate your hands from your stride- small stride, move hands back slightly. But definately do it definitively and aggresively and get good at it. As your hands move back, your back knee moves under. You shoulders stay locked in and your hands stay back as your knee moves under. Make sure your back knee is driving your front feel into footplant. Heel timing. Then swivel the elbows and let the bat go backwards.

Keep the bat in a deep grip in your hands.

how do you feel after getting a hit

how you play is more important than what you do

Its all about what kind of competitor you are. If you love the challenge and don't back down from anything, you are a good competitor. If you ask for strength and not easier tasks then you are a great competitor. That's what I need to be. I catch myself saying in the seventh- I hope I don't get another at-bat so I can go 1 for 3. But that's not being a competitor- on any level- because a competitor knows that the next time he gets up he is going to get a hit and that the team is more important than himself and that all he cares about is winning. so therefore, he wants the at-bat because he loves competing, wants his team to win because it is more important than himself, and knows he will get a hit.

My family really holds me back as far as baseball and my career are concerned. My brother and dad come to the games and think they are the analyses team, just adding more pressure to the situation. They sit around and criticize and judge me and they have no clue what they are talking about because they are not athletes, nor have they ever played the game at the level Im playing it at. After my first college game give me this like statistical breakdown of my hands and what I was doing, etc. etc and I'm going, shut the hell up you have never played this game and are not a candidate to give me advice. I could give a fuck less about what they say.

as much as I'd like to deny that I don't want to be a major leaguer because it doesn't suit my personality or genetic makeup, I do. Its all I want to do, its all I've ever wanted to do. I'm scared as shit right now, we have our first game tomorrow.

I need to go out and and forget results, forget analyses, forget thinking, and just play my balls out. Don't focus on anything accept winning, and when your in the game, don't think, just play and have fun. Whatever the results are, don't analyze them and don't worry about them in the game. Whatever happens, put your best effort on the field. Tomorrow might be biblical because I am wound tighter than the seams on the baseball I'm going to be hitting.

to load against the back knee- keep the back knee inside the foot, and turn the foot in slightly, and keep it solid when you turn your hips back.

use your hands.

box it up.

slow, early, swing to take.

stride soft and light. keep head still.

rotate the lead shoulder up and the lead elbow up and then swing without the shoulders: practice triangular turn without the shoulders involvement. The only thing you should be worried about is seeing the ball well. The bottom line is I'm going to be really good and they can't do anything to stop me.

its about results, not how it looks on video. rely on results. keep a log of how your swing feels.

swing without the shoulders. thats the bottom line.

teacherman rythym drill- use hands and lower body

hands rotate bat, lower body doesn't rotate, hip thrusts

be soft, no movement

if you only had one shot to sieve everything you ever wanted in life, would you take it, or let it slip?

the first thing that happens with your hands is you turn the triangle out from under them. Make sure to push out, without this you are just spinning. turn the triangle through contact, swing at a high pitch.

throw the bat through with the back arm.

tip as you stride, don't pull the bat back to one position and keep it there.

tip as you stride, don't pull the bat back to one position and keep it there.

hands not stretched back.

as you push out, turn the triangle.

swing without the shoulders.

barrel turns immediately in my hands.

hands not pulling bat.

bat rotates in vertical plane.

start the swing by dropping the back shoulder and raising the lead arm. don't pull off the ball. Get the feeling of keeping your front shoulder in.

vertical bat plane

passion

intensity

fun

positivity

LOVE

when you experience success, don't get happy. you expect that to happen

tip the bat over in the load in accordance with your shoulders and not as an independent function of the arm

. the shoulders should be taken out of the swing in terms of their rotation at the start of the swing. the lower arm should be under the bat while it is still vertical

when i take a pitch, my lower body should be going.

take

take the hands back, not just up

right now my arm is hurting me so i can't practice hitting that much. I've got to see the ball better and get my swing more efficient. I ran a 4.7 down the line today, that is bullshit. I will practice that and make it better.

i need to get some rythym with my legs in my muscle memory, and I need to get the bat-head out, in the zone a long time, and through the ball- hitting behind the ball. You'll know it when you feel it.

practice the one leg swings where you hit the ball before you land and stay through the ball- don't use your shoulders

drop back shoulder, slot lead arm up, and don't use shoulders

lean over at waist, get shoulders over feet, feet square, and bat tipped over. everything over the plate and through the ball

breakfast: 5 eggs, bacon, almonds, fish oil, bottle of water (2)

snack: almonds, bottle of water

Lunch- chicken w/ two vegetables, fish oil, bottle of water

snack: almonds, vegetables, bottle of water

Dinner- meat, vegetable, fish oil

meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, almonds

building discipline is like building a muscle.

go to bed at 9:30, wake up at 6:30

before bed: shave, wash face, brush teeth, take out contacts, eye drops

bat tilt/swivel

when the bat flattens out behind you, thats bat. you can only turn it in your hands horizontally and this is easy to see on film as the bat turns around your hands at the end in a horizontal mode and you don't stay through the ball, no release of the bathead.

slot the bat down, vertically, straight back. keep it tight with the arms and wrists. Load properly- get some weight back, cock your hips, like you are going to throw. Use your arms, not the pull of your shoulders.

do the swivel with the top hand and lead arm EARLY and slow maybe. Do it high- don't drop your hands or upercut the ball. Do it without the shoulders. Do it rythymically so it can be smooth.

practice doing the swivel all the time with half-cuts and dry hacks. make sure you are incorporating enough game speed practicar into your routine. The drills are good, but make sure you are incorporating enough game speed swings with the drilled mechanics and not just relying on the drills to affect your swing. Hit curveballs out front, don't wait on them to break before attacking them.

hip thrust

don't pull the hands out from under the barrel- turn the barrel with a strong wrist and in connection with the elbows and shoulders. don't turn the shoulders either during the barrel turn.

the hips work by rotating them against the rear leg until they are fully stretched, in which case they will then fire around.

make sure you are still swinging without the shoulders.

drill set:

turn the foot towards the pitcher and load the hip, and release it. turn the foot slightly in a repeat, until you get fully around to square. do 5x5 with this. do it on the turf mound and then move to flat ground. then do it on the turf mound again with barrel turn backwards. then move to the ground/ same. then do this w/ half swings, then half swings off the tee, and then finally off the tee. then go to front toss. then go all the way back through the routine, backwards.

its about love and passion. self-confidence is born in love and passion. don't question yourself, believe, and know that even if not currently you feel like you can be a big leaguer, you will eventually and that someday it will all pay off.

I've become a successful hitter because i've put in my ten thousand hours and figured out the right way to swing. I deserve it.

I love the game, every part of it, even running the bases and the outfield. Feel like in the outfield, that there is this tension right before the ball goes up in coach bogg's hand and that you feel this intense need to get under the ball and catch it, to not let it drop.

everything is born in love and passion.

thank-you jesus christ and god.

on the swings where i was thinking about throwing the bathead and keeping the shoulders square (1 13) i was getting a better look through contact on the video. i think it might be because my right arm was working better, had more leverage on the bat. once again, there might be things i need to work on in practice, and then see if they evolve in bp than specifically work on them in bp.

right now i'm just rotating w/ my hands along for the ride. i need to throw the bathead and keep the shoulders square.

i could combine by routine of throwing the bathead drills and my new ones.

goals for week:

see myself load against a solid rear leg with my hips and my leg turning forward simultaneously on video by friday.

see less shoulder rotation in the swing, a sooner contact point, less hand push, and more bat turn behind me.

strategies to improve- keep a journal of all the hitting you do. detailed, w/ drills, etc

throw the bat with right hand, take shoulders out of swing

thoughts

keep shoulders out of swing/ square

keep head still

work on the start of the swing

lead arm working up "jut" is critical

quickness- don't match the speed of the pitch w/ your swing, snap the bat as fast and late as possible

david wright says he likes tot try to swing with his shoulders square the whole time

in an amatuers swing, from the front view, you can see the barrel the whole time. from the view of a pro- you can see the barrel disappear behind him.

non-judgemental- stay even keel, don't react to good or bad. test this by looking at yourself on camera.

don't try to be something you're not: don't forget about the hands and stay through the ball if it doesn't work for you right now. Throw the bat w/ your right arm and keep the shoulder's square