Baseball Batting Stance & Hitting Techniques : Turning the Back Foot to Hit a Baseball
Rotating the back foot will help to force your hips through when hitting a baseball. Learn about batting stances and how to prepare to hit a baseball in this free video lesson. Expert: Eric Herrera Bio: Eric Herrera is a hitting instructor in Phoenix. Since playing in the College World Series, he has coached little league teams and provided hitting instructions for five to eighteen year-olds. Filmmaker: Dustin Daniels
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Good dialogue. Food for thought…do not worry about rotating or spinning on your back foot. The longer your foot can stay on the ground the more range of motion one has, thus more power!!! Hitting (and throwing) begins as a linear action. Take the back hip directly toward your target and let the foot follow. Please don’t “sit and spin”.
Good dialogue. Food for thought…do not worry about rotating or spinning on your back foot. The longer your foot can stay on the ground the more range of motion one has, thus more power!!! Hitting (and throwing) begins as a linear action. Take the back hip directly toward your target and let the foot follow. Please don’t “sit and spin”.
your back foot is pulled up when your hands go past your mid section….you are rotating improperly..put a bottle behind your right foot when you swing ..if you hit the bottle you are bug squishing and not getting proper weight shift..from what i can see you;ll be knocking over the bottle..
@bkh3535 Maybe you’re not understanding what people are talking about by spinning on their backfoot… in the video, he is correctly saying you pivot on your back foot as you drive with your front leg. How would you be moving your back foot anyway? Running at a pitch? It stays put, it should be pointing forward by the end of the swing… your front leg locked straight, weight over it..
@nemjeff13
Um, no… you’re wrong. This video is absolutely correct… you don’t think you turn on your back foot!? Being such an “expert,” what MLB hitters have you been watching!? You drive with your FRONT foot (hips explode open on the swing), the back foot spins on the ball and your knee and foot should be pointed toward the pitcher when you’re done swinging… “expert.”
(I might not be a “top D1 hitter” but I play semi-pro ball.)
Thanks Eric great information for a beginning coach.
This guy said turn ur back foot because it helps u open ur hips. If the goal is to open ur hips, wouldnt it be more effective to turn ur front foot? Anyways, You guys are right, squishing the bug will kills players future. Weight transfer with trained rotational mechanics are what gets it done. Not these terrible linear mechanics
I am a top division 1 hitter, who studies major leaguers extensively…you do not spin the back foot! you drive through the ball, finally someone who knows.
I agree with funkyfresh. You are to drive you back knee at the ball and you actually do come up on your toe with your leg looking like a backwards “L”. Look up pics of major league hitters at contact to understand what I mean. I am a hitting instructor in Las Vegas and played D-1 in Louisiana
your right axle6011 i play competively and during practice one day i hit a ball at least 400 feet. i know for a fact im not a guy with rippling muscles and after i hit the ball my coach told all my other teammates thats what happens with good hip rotation. so i know for a fact it was hip rotation that generated the power
whats the point of the bat on the plate? You don’t use it during the video. Perkingman12 you are right.
thank you sir.
right cuz that means all the weight is on your backfoot
agree with funky.. you have no clue what your talking about.. how about turn on your tv one time and watch a big leaguers hit… no one spins on the back foot.. you have to create torque to have power, that comes from the back leg DRIVING the weight INTO the front leg.. most big leaguers have their back foot slightly off the ground or up on their toe at contact because the weight has shifted… your foot spins then your weight stays on the back leg with no weight transfer, Stop messing kids up!
you’re not supposed to squish the bug..u wanna do the same thing with your foot as you do with a golf swing. that way you’re energy is transferring forward and not back
now this guy is a good teacher, now i understand y i was offbalance
It’s not about the bug or the foot at all. Some instructors like to have the batter focus on the “bug squishing” as a means to open the hips.
It’s hip rotation that generates the power.
Alright, well consider this video is teaching proper technique I seriously doubt that anyone here’s looking to drop bombs any time soon. I play for a recreational league and I’m trying to improve my swing for qaulity contact. I’ll never crank a home run, but learning to turn that single into a double will help. Let me know when you guys make it to the big leagues though, douchebags.
dude do you know how retarded you must be to think you will get more power by not transfering your weight and staying back will not get you power. now you stay back and once you are going to make contact at that split second transfer weight so you drive through the ball.
pekingman12 is right. you aren’t supposed to ’squish the bug’ but get the weight off of your back leg, but it’s all timing, do it too early, and you are on your front foot, but do it perfect, and you drop bombs. Simple as that.
sorry buds, i gotta agree with pekingman12. Maybe squish the bug is an okay technique for younger kids, just trying to develop a concept. Contact comes from practice and repitition. Power comes from the lowerbody, requiring a push with the back leg to drive the hip through. This push is inexistant when the back foot is just rotated. And remember, contact doesnt get you noticed by scouts, power does. Stick to t-ball my friend.
noooooooooo dont do this
hahaha no dont squish the bug!!