This Drill That Will Instantly Improve Your Baseball Swing! | A-Rod Academy

If you feel like you're struggling, I'm going to give you a drill that will help you get tighter, stay behind the baseball, and increase your accuracy. Let me show you. Now, this is Joe here. Get in your stance. Yeah, right there. Get even a little closer. What you see here is Joe is standing very close to this net. Now, the key is he has a swing, but he can't touch the net. The only way you can do that is he has to stay behind the baseball. If he travels to me at all, he's going to get long, okay? So, this is where alligator arms really help you. So, do it in slow motion first. Stop right there. Go back. Go back. Slow motion. Go back. Slow motion. See, this is a bad move right here. You see where this hand is? This hand is under this hand. That's incorrect. This should be like this. You should be attacking the ball like this, because this is your dominant hand. The minute you give up dominance, that pitcher got you, and that becomes a long, lazy, slow swing, probably a broken bat or a pop-up. You want to always make sure you stay dominant. So, when you come in at the ball, you want to come in this way, and then once you release that head, it'll do the natural. Now, it's reel versus feel. We're trying to swing down, but I already know all you new schoolers are going to tell me that everyone uppercuts, and you're going to show me my swings. I get it, but you have to feel like you're swinging down to create the perfect uppercut, but the uppercut is slight, okay? I'm not talking about a lob wedge or a sand wedge. Remember, in your head, it still has to be a 3-iron. You're looking for neck-high line drives, not lob shots, okay? Lob shots, you go to triple A. 3-iron, where you're hitting neck-high line drives, that's where you make the money, okay? And basically, the drill is you throw the ball here, and you hit the ball right in here, this way. Choke up the first few, so it's easier. So, you'll choke up a little bit here. That's good, and then what you want to do is you want to start hitting the ball, like, more right where that pitcher's mound is. A little bit right of drill, left of drill. That's better. That's a good swing. So, what this does is it helps you stay inside the baseball. It promotes alligator arms, as we talked about, right? But it makes you get that head out in front the right way, and you got to go on top, and you got to hit the ball out in front. But you still stay inside the baseball, and you stay very tight. Let's get a few more here. That's the best one. You can pull the ball, but still stay inside. Good. A couple more. Good. That was perfect. Fun drill.