Posted by: Graylon (g_dunc@hotmail.com) on Thu Feb 7 21:30:08 2008

> It's my second year of playing basbeball, but i am almost 18 years old now...I am trying hard to play better baseball...but i just can't hit the ball hard.
> I was using the hitting tech that my coach taught me, that was more likely the "linear hitting". I got okay result on the short toss using that "linear hitting". But whenever i got hitting in the games, all the results were those soft ground ball or swung and missed... Therefore I decided to learn more about "rotational hitting". I really like the idea that rotational hitting provides. But i think that i am not on track of this... I am not getting those sweet and powerful swings. Is there any common mistake that might happen to me?And I think whenever I want to apply torque to my swing, I am like an arm swinger... please give me some help. I appreciate


WTGB,

Without seeing your swing, it's hard to make any adjustments. Learning how to hit can be very complicated, without a good coach. One thing I would advise you do would be to find a good rotational hitting coach, but try this; Go to a field and practice tossing a ball in the air and hitting fly balls as far as you can, pretend you're hitting fly balls for outfield practice. Remember that swing and try to apply it to a pitched ball. The last thing is "swing hard, you might get lucky and hit it, swing soft, you might get lucky and hit it, which would you rather get lucky with?"

Graylon