COACH LESSON 6 OF 24 • THE SWING
Lesson 6: Teaching Contact and Hand Placement
From the Complete Hitter Masterclass — Coach Edition with BK, for baseball and fastpitch softball coaches. Lines up with Player Lesson 6: Contact and Hand Placement.
Learning Objective
By the end of this lesson your hitters can get to contact with the hands inside the ball, top hand palm-up, bottom hand palm-down and an athletic front side, with the hands in the right spot for inside, middle and away, and you can see it on a paused contact frame.
About 30 minutes, plus the practice plan with your hitters.
What to Teach
“At contact, the hands tell on your hitter. Learn to read them, Coach.” Contact is where everything meets the ball: steady head, athletic front side, connected torso…
Coach Lesson 6 is part of the full Coach Edition
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