Try this drill at your next practice 🥎 Perfect timing drill for elite softball players.

[williamtennill]

Love how the bat goes A/B and solid mechanics.. she has a good swing

[cswammock]

Some of those outside corner pitches would be a nice opportunity to advance baserunners.

[garymagr]

She passed on the 1st and 3rd balls i would somewhat consider those outside pitches that she honestly should be swinging at shes forming her discipline to only hit balls down middle those outside bounces step that way toward the ball and rip

[jimbrown]

My coach had us practice batting with golf balls. We won the championship two years in a row...

[pvblito]

Should be taking cuts at pitches on the edges of the zone, not just wheelhouse zones.

Adjusting to what is delivered is real situation hitting.

[AlexaSchaffer]

as soon as I saw that when she hit it, that would’ve been a home run I wish I was like her

[louisrivera]

The problem with this drill is that the instructor doesn't point out to the hitter to not Lean back into the rear leg as she is hitting the ball, but to keep the weight more balanced/central or a little more forward into the hit so that her body power stays into the hit not backing or pulling away from the contact. She hit the ball solid but with less power.
He says at the end "nice, that's the way to be adaptive." He should have also pointed out her weight shift issue.
The drill itself is good. Those of you watching it just remind your players & coaches to address the weight/balance shift as it is equally important.

[lalalalaalaa]

my coach makes us do these all of the time. it's great for things like timing and also is great when working on forms

[Jiggydagoon]

Baseball coaches come up with the craziest drills

[tima.]

Maybe softball is different somehow, as I don't really know but I would think hitting is hitting. You should never fall off balance like that, especially when hitting "meatballs." More core strengthening would really help. Nice 'inside out' swing though. I played Triple A ball, (Gwinnett).

[mickeyhelms]

There's no substitute for a live pitcher. Repetition is great but nothing better to improve timing like live pitching

[dustinrodriques]

Now I am trying that at my softball practice

[mark-osdo]

Brave dude. I'd be wearing a batting helmet and catcher's mask ...better safe than sorry..

[Goofayball]

PVC tube with a giant funnel on top. Make a stand for it or a rig out of some aluminum tubing or some wood. Hover the pvc pipe over the bucket. Make a spring loaded sliding door attachement with another door on the other end and some extra tubing to connect to the main one like having two water hose diverters next to each other so that when you pull the first door to release the ball, the rest of the balls don’t fall out. You then close first door, open the second door and once the ball is in the chamber you close the second door. Now release the first door and repeat. Throw a bunch into the funnel and adjust the height for different bounces and you are good to go. If you made an electronic mechanism to operate every 15 seconds or manually, you could have the batter fly solo for warmups or operate it for them. You could include a random launch setting with a drop time between the max legal limit pitch timer and the fastest time between two pitches just to focus on reflex. Even a setting with random where you can totally customize the window as desired would be neat. Manually, this would only cost 200 at most.

[leilacole]

I do that drill all the time it is one of the best drills out there!

[bonanza-mdyz]

Your bat is a extention of your arms power hitting placement hitting bunting & sometimes our strength is different choak up bat for placement, shorter heavy bat for power power ect.great work.

[marbear]

Great swing. As a rise ball pitcher, don’t let the back shoulder drop too much for distance

[gsue]

Oh that first 'pitch' was so perfect....right over right field's head!

[Sportschick-cubp]

This is a great idea! I use this with my girls all the time. The hand letting go of the ball allows them to get ready and the ball hitting the bucket is the pitching “releasing” the ball.

[HenryFisel]

That’s very smart of the coach! Great swing too!