Baseball Drills
Of course baseball drills are a staple in order to approve your game. In fact, most coaches will spend the majority of practice time on a variety of drills in the hopes they will ultimately help their ballplayers improve their performance.
However, it's very important that you select the right drills for yourself or someone you're coaching. Simply doing something you saw a Major Leaguer do or a "new" drill does not guarantee success and often impede progress.
That's why I've put together a checklist you should go over before selecting a drill to implement.
How to select baseball drills:
1. Ask yourself, "Why am I doing this drill?"
Please don't do a drill just for the sake of doing it. Be sure there is a specific purpose to that individual drill. It is very hard to work on more than one thing at a time (and even harder for kids to focus on more than one thing at a time) so be sure to pick out drills that match what you're trying to work on.
2. Ask yourself, "Is my player ready for this baseball drill?"
Quite often I see a coach, parent or player attempt a drill that is obviously too advanced for them. Contrary to popular belief (and ignorance) doing so will simply result in poor technique and loss of confidence, the dreaded "double-whammy" for a baseball player. Doing the hitting drill Albert Pujols does now will not urn your kid into the same type of hitter. It simply doesn't work that way. If you player needs work on the basics of his swing, don't have him doing advanced bat sped drills. Save that for when the player is comfortable with his stance, load and swing.
3. Walk before you run
This builds on my last rule. It may not be "sexy", but you can never do too many baseball exercises that focus on the basics. You want this to be second nature. This is the building block of the player. While this is not news to most, I rarely see this implemented properly. Quite often it's a race to add a new drill as if that signifies "advancement". I'm here to tell you it doesn't. Just because you can do a new drill, doesn't mean you have advanced or even that it can carry over to a game. Real advancement is being able to make the basics look easy and effortlessly. This takes a great deal of working on the basics.
4. Where are you getting your information from?
Be careful to who you listen to. These days, with the advent of the Internet, every Tom, Dick and Harry is a baseball coaching expert. It's quite sad really. I'm not saying these individuals have bad intentions. It's just the blind leading the blind. Be sure you are getting your info from real coaches who have had real-life success developing winning teams and great players. This should be your main source for baseball exercises.
Use these simple, yet very powerful "rules" in selecting your baseball drills and your team will be on its way to winning!
You could also see others Baseball Tips below :
No Shortcut To Athletic Success By Harry Lloyd
How To Select Baseball Bats By Jon Doyle.
Hitting Secret : Early Bat Speed By Jon Doyle.
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