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You can see my video on this topic here.  Let me first explain what I mean by "approach."  By "approach," I mean the main thing that these swing coaches or "camps" believe is the key differentiator between the great hitters and everyone else.  As a swing coach, when you have an "approach," you should be able to decipher it in two ways.  First, you should be able to point out what your swing looks like on video, and second, you should be able to describe the feeling in as simple and concise way as possible so that someone can easily pick...

Swing with just your front arm.  It’s really that simple.  People want to often make it more confusing than it needs to but it’s not their fault.  Conventional baseball swing instruction has sold them on the idea that they need to be given a one hour lecture to understand the swing, and even then they walk away unsure if they’re doing it right. The bottom line is, the conventional approach to the swing has gotten way too confusing.  The gurus say science backs up their claims or that some major league player who uses their methods backs up their claims. ...

  So much is said about creating a box with the arms and shoulders and keeping that box intact all the way to contact. Folks, this is just more "stay-inside-the-ball" methodology. Sure it can work for someone who's 6'8", 280 pounds or guys pumped up on steroids, but the rules are just plain different for them. Instead of just blindly following any good hitter, try a more strategic approach.  Instead, try starting with the best pound for pound hitters of all time.  You can download the top 100 pound for pound hitters list here.   Once you have that list, you...

  Today's swing instruction teaches the first part of the swing as a stiff and still movement.  Richard Schenck says you should be "still as a stature."  Why do they say this?  The thinking is that by being still you can be faster from the start of the swing to contact.  Ok, so why do you have to be still though?  Have you ever thought about that?  Can't you be moving while you decide to swing?  Of course you can, and this is a key concept that today's instruction is missing.   Hitters today are remaining completely still and firing quickly from...

People think my approach to the baseball swing is crazy when they first hear it.  After all, I advocate just one drill - the “front arm progression.”  Typically, swing coaches have thirty to forty drills in their arsenal.  Ask the any swing coach what his goal was in starting on his path, and he’ll likely say something like, “I love coaching” or “I’ve always wanted to own my own hitting facility.”  Coaching or owning my own facility was never important to me.  My goal has always been to figure out the baseball swing.  Everything else was secondary.   I wanted...