Swing Attractors

This week’s article is written by Coach Bryce Neal, assistant softball coach/hitting coach at the University of Louisville. It is a significant article because it combines swing mechanics (mechanical/physical adjustments) with swing approach (mental/visual...

In the 2008 Women’s College World Series some of my hitters used a split grip from one of our drills in the actual game which was nationally televised on ESPN. Afterwards, people starting associating me with the split grip because from 2008 onward we always had 2 or 3...

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE In law school and then in the legal world, there was a phrase we used: TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The legal phrase is used to specify the time period which one party must complete its contractual obligations to the other, or else face consequences....

“Talent alone does not make you great. Just like I.Q. alone does not make you smart”. It takes GRIT - passion, purpose & perseverance plus devotion & discipline - on the part of the student in the classroom &/or the athlete on the field to want to learn,...

I worked a hitting camp last month and we were able to break the hitters attending into two groups based on HOW THEY USED THEIR PELVIS. Then afterwards we spent some time on hinging (but not a lot because they all caught on quickly) and then 90% of our time was spent...

Coaches don’t talk biomechanics & science to the hitters. That is the “work” done behind the scenes. With hitters, it is best to just focus on “CLEANER MOVEMENT PATTERNS”. And cleaner movement patterns happen because the coach can connect the dots by merging the...

Let’s take a look at cultivating elasticity in relationship to the incoming pitch. Eliminating muscle slack and creating elasticity via co-contractions happens during pelvis loading. Hitters know inherently that they need to create elasticity in order to create power...

WE ARE MORE EFFICIENT MOVING WITH ROTATION THAN WITHOUT IT! I approach these articles, which contain some “scientific” content, from a coach’s perspective with over 30 years IN THE BATTING CAGES & ON THE FIELD asking: how can this information help my hitters BE...

WE ARE MORE EFFICIENT MOVING WITH ROTATION THAN WITHOUT IT! AND THE BETTER & FASTER & MORE EXPLOSIVE THE ROTATION IS, THE BETTER & MORE EFFICIENT THE SWING WILL BE. And, all rotation is NOT of the same quality; for instance, the rotation in a golf swing or...