Greetings to all in steemit, in the previous post I leave some very good tips for baseball pitchers and in this case I bring some tips for hitters, I hope and it is very useful. Baseball is something that I'm passionate about, I've been playing this sport for 14 years, since I started at a very young age and although I do not become a professional, I still have a lot of experience in this complex sport. In baseball every day you learn something new, nobody knows all of them in this sport, even the managers of the teams and players of the major leagues do not stop studying baseball despite being at the top but it is already I said, every day you learn something new in this sport. I'm leaving the topic a lot, so I'll stop talking and I'll go with the tips.
The main thing is to know the correct way to hold the bat, if you are right the left hand goes down and the right up and if you are left-handed, it would be the other way around. It is held with the fingers supported with the palm, I recommend that while the pitcher prepares to throw do not squeeze the bat if not rather hold it without force and that when you are ready to throw it you squeeze it before making the swing, because if the pitcher takes a long time to throw and squeeze the bat with force to what comes the release although you do not believe the hands have lost strength, but if you loosen and squeeze when the launch comes with force you will take the swing with everything.
The batting posture, as in the picture above, should have the legs separated and flexed, the back elbow raised and you have to be focused, your gaze fixed on the pitcher's hand. Posture is key to being a good hitter so you have to practice it a lot.
To be a good hitter you must have a good mechanic and for that you can practice without a ball, only with the bat swinging in the air or hitting a rubber are good methods to improve the mechanics of batting. I recommend practicing mechanics with a light bat, so much that you control it easily since you have to do many movements if you want to improve the batting, because to improve the strength it would be practice with a heavy bat but first the mechanics first, then can develop strength. The steps are those that are in the image that you leave, a lot of attention in the legs since that is the impulse, they are the balance. You have to support all the weight of the body on the back leg and then with a lot of impulse throw it forward followed by a rapid rotation of the waist, the back foot has to turn and stay fixed in place, the arms forward with strength and with the help of the dolls. The swing must be straight, not up and not down, that way I assure you that you will hit the ball at whatever speed.
To improve the vision of the batting one must practice a lot of BP (ball put) in order to improve the contact, another method would be with a pitching machine to practice from less to more, you start with a slow speed and as you get used to it you will increase the speed. You can also practice batting grains with a broomstick or beer tokens, rare methods but they work, believe me.
To improve the strength in batting it is very important to strengthen the forearms, biceps, triceps and shoulders bone the arms but the musculature is not what makes you hit harder, it is the speed of the swing, so try not to focus on enlarge muscles if not to strengthen them, because if you only do it for clear muscles your strength will increase but you will not have the same fluency in batting mechanics so take these tips in the best way and focus a lot on training.
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Finally the batter must study the pitchers to know everything about their pitches, that is something that is recommended to hitters since they start in the big leagues, that and concentration at home is what makes a hitter. We Venezuelans have many examples to follow, like Miguel Cabrera and Jose Altuve, when we see them in action we learn so I also recommend that when they see the games of the big leagues, they do not see them if they do not learn, study the pitchers and the batters.**
That's all and until the next friends, I hope you like the information.