COACH LESSON 9 OF 16 • BARREL TO CONTACT
Lesson 9: Teaching Contact and Hand Placement
From the Swing Structure Masterclass — Coach Edition with BK, for baseball and fastpitch softball coaches. Lines up with Player Lesson 9: Contact and Hand Placement.
Learning Objective
By the end of this lesson your hitters can put their hands inside the ball at contact, top palm up and bottom palm down, against an athletic front side, adjust hand position for inside, middle and away, and you have a graded Barrel-to-Contact phase final for every hitter.
About 35 minutes, plus the practice plan with your hitters.
What to Teach
“Your hands tell the truth at contact. Teach him where they go and the barrel takes care of itself.” At contact the hands are inside the ball. The knob has worked…
Coach Lesson 9 is part of the full Coach Edition
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