What Is “Staying Connected” and How Do You Do It?

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In this video, Coach Justin from Ultimate Baseball Training talks about what "staying connected" means and exactly how to do it. Plus, he'll also give you some great hitting drills to help you develop a short, quick, and powerful swing!

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[stephenmcneil]

This video finally helped give me an idea of what I was doing wrong in my swing. I am finally keeping my elbows separated through the swing, and I’ve never felt as easy as now. I was just hitting off a tee in my basement, and for the first time, didn’t feel anything on my hands, and felt like I had easy power. Just focusing on keeping my elbows apart stopped my bat drag entirely when I watched back my video.

Seeing as I’m 21 and no longer play any form of competitive ball, I’m a little pissed to just figure this out now, but I’ve never been more excited to do tee work before. I’m hoping I get to play some season this year.

Anyway, I’m rambling, but I just wanted to tell this to someone, because I feel like I can finally start from the ground up and really build my swing now. Thank you!!!!

[ballinoutyt]

Justin, you have made my favorite sport go from basketball to base baseball. I am hitting 10x more dingers that I was before watching u. U give amazing advice and have made me the player I am today. I used to hit balls just out the infield, now I hit at LEAST 25 to 40 further. In batting practice people now My team has to say in BP “big hitter back up!“ Thanks Justin. 👊🏽

[rockshopcookies]

Opening day is tomorrow for me.
Wish me luck! Also, good tips, thanks for sharing them!

[linkstoes]

So I watched his video of how to hit more home runs and the day after I hit a bomb on a 270 foot field and I am 10

[juliansolorio]

I love this video Justin! I showed my dad and he said its a great video!

[philplante]

In the physics of the swing, a "connected" swing means that your entire body mass is behind your swing. If you are disconnected, only the mass of your arms and the bat are behind the swing, not the mass of your body. Force is mass times acceleration, so if you have less mass behind your swing, you are applying less force to the ball. To maximize power, you want to maximize the force you apply to the ball, so you want all of your mass connected to your swing.

[rhettnunez]

Hey Coach Justin, thank you for your videos. I had my first freshman game today and your How to get noticed as a freshman video helped me a lot. I am already going to be playing with sophomores.

[Nicktorres]

Thank you for this I’m playing my first year of juniors and I crushed a home run way over the outfielders head. Thank you Justin

[sgodlike]

Duuuude my girl's been videoing my swings in games because i could not figure out wth was up with my swing. Everybody said i was just early and pulling off but the videos proved otherwise. Just watched ☝️ this video and was like "DUH". Thank you dude and keep up the awesomeness!

[autobotoptimusprime]

Nice video coach Justin I will use this for when I have batting practice tomorrow

[PLJCARDS]

That was an incredible amount of information. Thank you for taking the time to make this next generation of ball players explosive hitters!!! Well done. I told you, hitting is simple. 😂

[ronandheather]

Thanks Coach! I appreciate you. I needed this.

[billyd]

Hey Justin, do you have any videos on what a hitter should be thinking about, before and during a pitch..? I know I used to get in my own head, especially after an 0-3, 0-4 day. Any advice or videos on this would be appreciated! Thx!

[Jesus_Martin]

Your videos are the best tutorials I've seen. Great explanations and examples coach. Hope everyone is doing well and staying connected lol

[mcduncan]

I’ll have to try this my next practice. Thanks for the tips!

[deeppatel]

Can you please do a short on video on grip pressure? And how it changes through out the swing. I feel is hard to find a video on it and it plays an important role in your swing speed and how relax you are.

[jacobscialabba]

Thank you coach. You’ve got the best advice

[jimmyalfonsin]

I had tryouts today and yesterday and I did decent but I didn’t hit good today. I’ll let you know if I make the team tommorow

[aavinpandita]

Can u make a video on elevating the ball becuz I am nine years old and I hit ground balls to shortstop a lot and they are usually the best fielder on the team and I get out pls it wil help me alot

[davidvasquez]

Hey man I have not played baseball since March 2020. I am going to try out for Freshman team. Any tips?