Reacting to a Baseball Pitch

Video Transcript

"Toady we're going to talk about creating a trigger. Now on our previous segments we've talked about creating a solid base, we've talked about holding the bat correctly, we've talked about a starting position. Now we're going to talk about the trigger. This is once the pitcher throws the ball, how are you going to react to get yourself in the best position to hit the ball? So, I've got my feet in a good position, slightly open. I've got my bat held correctly. Now I'm in my stance. This is again a personal preference, you know some guys are here, some guys are here, it makes no difference. Where it stops becoming a personal preference and it becomes a necessity is the trigger. Now, if you're here, your trigger is still going to be here. If you're here, your trigger is still going to be here. The key is to push your hands back behind your back foot. What this enables you to do is push, you have your hands back here, it can enable you to get straight through the ball. Now, this is how it looks like in real time. So as you can see, as the pitch was coming, rocked my hands back, pushed them back a little bit over my back foot. That's the trigger. That's creating a starting point. Now it doesn't matter, like I said, where you start from. You just have to get the same position, hands over the back foot in order to get yourself going to hit. And that is creating a trigger."