Bat Path

Lower Half

From launch position, your bat path will only be as good as upper and lower half coil you have created. If you created equal opposite resistance from your forward movement, your elbow will slot down toward your back hip and give you the chance of creating a good bat path.

Upper Half

Understanding how the forward tilt begins to take place with your chest allows you to to work around an axis that is at a forward angle. This transition from being “over plane” or “under plane” to getting “on plane” with the incoming pitch is how you work efficient to the ball but behind it at contact. The baseball will enter the hitting zone on average at a negative six degree angle since the pitcher is throwing off of a raised surface. If you enter the hitting zone “above plane”, your hands are beginning to fire above the negative six degree angle. If you enter the hitting zone “under plane”, your hands will fire below the negative six degree angle and work back to get on the plane of the pitch.

Simply…

Short to the ball, behind the baseball at contact and long through zone. A great bat path is a biproduct of a great sequence of events leading to it.