How to Hit an Inside Pitch: Turn Inside Pitches Into Your Best Pitches
Pitchers come inside to jam you. Hitters who turn on it get the pitch they can drive the hardest.
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Swing Development · Players & Parents
Swing Development · Hitters & Parents
How to Stop Pulling Off the Ball: Causes, Video Checks and Fixes
Pulling off is a symptom. Find out why the front side opens early, and the swing stays on the ball longer.
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Swing Development · Hitting Processor
Late Barrel Adjustability: Chase DeLauter’s Swing
How great hitters adjust late to inside and away pitches without giving away force.
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Swing Development · Baseball
How to Hit Line Drives (and Stop Popping Up or Rolling Over)
Pop-ups and weak grounders come from the same place: the barrel meets the ball at the wrong time or on the wrong plane. Here’s how to fix both.
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Swing Development · Baseball
Baseball Batting Stance: The Setup That Lets Him Move
A stance isn’t a pose. It’s the starting point that has to let him load, see the ball and swing on time. Here’s how to build one.
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Swing Development · Fastpitch
Softball Batting Stance: The Setup That Lets Her Move
A stance isn’t a pose. It’s a starting point that has to let her load, see the ball and swing on time. Here’s how to build one.
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Swing Development · Fastpitch
Softball vs Baseball Swing: What’s the Same and What Changes
Same principles, different problem. What a hitter switching sports, or a coach running both, needs to keep and what needs to change.
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Swing Development · Fastpitch
Softball Slapping Basics: How to Slap (Soft Slap vs Hard Slap)
Slapping turns speed into hits from the left side. It’s a real skill with its own footwork, rules and reps, not a shortcut.
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Swing Development · Softball Parents
Softball Hitting Drills at Home (No Cage Needed)
A tee, a net, some soft balls and 20 minutes. That’s enough to build a better hitter in the garage or backyard.
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Swing Development · Parents & Coaches
Stepping in the Bucket: Why It Happens and the Fix
Stepping in the bucket is a symptom, not the problem. Find the cause and the stride usually fixes itself.
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Swing Development · Parents
How to Film Your Swing for Analysis (Angles, Settings, Checklist)
Two angles, chest high, landscape, slow motion. Get the video right and a coach can actually help your hitter.
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MLB Breakdowns · The Swing
Change With a Reason
Dax Kilby’s Fall League swing change shows why an adjustment has to solve a baseball problem, not chase a look.
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MLB Breakdowns · Bat Speed
Harder Without Wilder
Zack Gelof added bat speed and contact while swinging less. Build power and decisions together.
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The Swing · Research
Hip-Shoulder Separation Isn’t Automatic
Separation grows with age. Don’t call a 10-year-old’s swing wrong: build the athletic position first and be patient.
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The Swing · Research
The 9-Millisecond Window: How Bat Path Buys Time
The average window for sweet-spot contact was 9.36 ms. Swing path stretched or shrank it by more than ten times.
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The Swing · Research
Your Tee Is Lying to You
A study of 20 youth hitters found the swing changes off a tee. Keep the tee, but make moving-ball reps the backbone.
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Swing Development · MLB Development
A Direct Bat Path Is Not Enough
Every coach wants a direct path. But a direct barrel attacking the wrong pitch is wasted. Position, plan, then path.
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Swing Development · MLB Development
How to Know If a Swing Change Is Working
Rebuilding the swing on Tuesday and competing on Friday is how hitters get lost. Test it the AHD way.
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Hitting Science · Swing Development
There Is No Perfect Stride in Hitting
A 2026 study of 95 college hitters found no single ideal stride. Assess the whole move before you try to fix a stride.
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Swing · Parents
How to Fix Your Kid’s Swing: What to Check First
Five checkpoints, one phone and ten swings. Find the breakdown that comes first and fix that one.
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Swing Development
Why Hitters Roll Over — and What to Fix First
Rolling over is usually a symptom. Learn what to assess before choosing a drill.
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Swing Development · Hitting Processor · Complete Hitter
Feel vs Real in Hitting
You feel on time but you’re late. You feel on the ball but you’re under it. The AHD fix: go the opposite. Under? Swing over.
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Swing · Velocity
How to Hit a High Fastball: What Hitters Should Actually Train
Why hitters miss the high heater, what not to change and three drills that transfer.
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Swing Development · Timing
Let the Arrow Go: Launch Position Timing
When the eyes say yes, is your hitter ready to fire? The hidden delay most hitters have, and how to train it out.
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Swing Development
Casting: What It Is and Why It Hurts Bat Path
How casting lengthens the route to contact and reduces adjustability.
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Swing Development · Hitting Processor · Complete Hitter
Going Oppo Is One Move
Going the other way isn’t a dozen tips. It’s one thing: hit the ball with the barrel behind your hands. And the best part is it works as a timing cue, helping you be on time and on plane more often.
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MLB Breakdown · Swing Development · Player Development
Miguel Cabrera’s Timeless Swing
What Cabrera’s 500th home run teaches hitters about adjustability, consistency and building a swing that survives change.
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Swing Development
The Swing Sequence: From Athletic Setup to Finish
A practical breakdown of the seven AHD swing checkpoints.
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Swing Development
Balance & Body Control: The Swing Fault Coaches Miss
Why posture and center-of-mass control affect timing, force transfer, and barrel accuracy.
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MLB Breakdowns · Swing Development
He Takes Strikeouts Personally: The Jacob Wilson Swing
A rookie All-Star starter who almost never misses. How his swing was built, and what young hitters should copy.
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Swing Development · Swing Structure
MAA: Mechanically Advantaged Angles
Every swing is different, but the best ones share angles that give hitters an edge. It’s an advantage, not a rule.
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Hitting Science · Swing Development · Complete Hitter
The Physics of Hitting a Baseball
Force, torque, sequence, bat speed, collision, time and adjustability—why AHD trains the complete hitter instead of just the swing.
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Hitting Processor · Swing Development · AHD Coach's Take
The Value of Time: Why the Best Swings Let Hitters Decide Later
You cannot make the pitch travel slower. You can build a hitter who needs less time to execute—and keeps the decision alive longer.
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MLB Breakdowns · Swing Development
Caminero vs. Pujols: Current & Former AHD Models
Pujols built the model swing. Caminero has it now, and Pujols helped coach it. The fastest, flattest swing in baseball.
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Swing Development · Youth
Why the Best Youth Players Always Play Shortstop
It’s not the arm or the coach’s kid. It’s a hitting problem: right-handed rollovers. Here’s the fix.
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Swing Development
5 Common Swing Flaws That Limit Performance
Learn what breaks down most often and how to start fixing it the right way.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
Staying Connected: The Back Elbow Slot at Contact
How the back arm moves from launch to contact, why hitters cast, and drills to stay connected with the back elbow in the slot for a short, strong swing.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
Extension and Wrist Release in the Swing
Why extension should go toward the pitcher, not out over the plate, and how wrist release before the roll creates solid contact and fewer rollovers.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
Front Leg Mechanics: Hitting Against an Athletic Front Side
Where the front foot lands, why the front leg stays flexed after the stride, and the front leg angle at contact that lets hitters hit against it.
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Swing Myths · 2015 Archive
Don’t Squish the Bug: What the Back Foot Really Does
“Squish the bug” is a hitting myth. What the back foot actually does at contact, and why releasing the back side helps full weight transfer.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
Releasing the Back Side: Back Leg Swing Mechanics
What the back leg and foot do at contact, why pivoting on the back foot costs power, and five drills to release the back side.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
Swing Tempo: Find Your Number for Hard Contact
Rhythm and tempo in the swing: how hitters “find their number,” the most effort they can use without losing technique, often 80 to 90 percent.
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Softball · 2015 Archive
Fastpitch Softball Hitting Study: Elite Mechanics
What a study of elite fastpitch softball hitters from Team USA, Arizona and Arizona State showed about swing mechanics compared with baseball.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
The Bump: The Middle of the Weight Shift
The bump is the forward hip shift with a bent front leg and square torso before the swing decision. What it is, why it buys time and how to see it.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
The Hitter’s Base: How Wide Should Your Feet Be?
A good hitting base is about a bat’s length between the feet after the stride. Why most young hitters are too narrow and how to fix it.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
Launch Position in Hitting: The Power-Load Position
Launch position is where the hands and body switch from moving away from the pitch to toward it. Five keys and two drills to get there every swing.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
The Timing Stride: When Should the Front Foot Land?
The front foot must be down early or on time, never late, around when the pitch is halfway to the plate. Stride timing keys and common faults.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
The Trigger: What Starts a Hitter’s Swing
The trigger is any movement that starts the swing: a timing device and the start of the load. Common triggers from hand push to leg kick.
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Swing · 2015 Archive
3 Universal Swing Faults and How to Fix Them
The three swing faults found in almost every young hitter, starting with losing hitting posture and a long, loopy swing, plus fixes and drills.
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Swing Myths · 2015 Archive
3 Hitting Myths Coaches Still Teach
Squish the bug, feet shoulder width, land softly on the toe: three things BK taught for years that elite hitters don’t do.
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Softball · 2015 Archive
Softball Hitting: Teach Girls Elite Swing Mechanics
Elite swing mechanics are the same in softball and baseball. Why fastpitch hitters deserve elite swing teaching, strength training and real challenge.
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