Posted by: Jane, the baseball mom () on Thu Oct 16 04:36:17 2003

Since I did not get a appropriate answer from the first responder, Can someone please tell me at what age should a boy start to practice switch hitting?

There are 2 boys on my sons team that switch hit, yes they are 10 year olds, so my son keeps bugging me about it, and I keep telling him he needs to perfect his right hand swing first.

Do boys swith hit in high school? If so, I assume they must have started at a younger age as I understand it takes a couple of years to perfect this.


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Is there a good age to begin switch hitting?
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> > My 10 year old son really wants to learn to switch hit. While at the batting cages recently with friends, they all tried it. I was surprised to see how natural a swing my son has hitting lefty. He looked pretty good and actually hit a few nice shots, while the other boys displayed awkward swings and never touched the ball.
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> > I saw then that this may be something he can pursue, but don't know much about it.
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> 10 is a good age to let the kid play and have fun. All this talk of switch hitting and batting equipment in the basement is too much. Younger kids don't have the coordination to do a lot of moves. Switch-hitting is was too complicated for a 10 year old. Think of the pressure the kid is would be under trying to please his mom trying to do something most big leaguers can't do. Conisder that you may be too involved in what is supposed to be a game.
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