#Make a rope bat how to#

Baseball swing drills (works well with softball too) that promote a hitter’s tempo and cadence are worth their weight in gold. However, I think the magic in the Rope Bat, is in dry swings anyway. Unfortunately, you can’t hit baseballs, softballs, or tennis balls with it. Improve a hitter’s ‘Bat Lag’ and shifting foot pressure by having them swing the Rope Bat on the on-deck circle. Like I mentioned earlier, combining top hand finger pressure while swinging the Rope Bat, is a LETHAL combination for crushing ‘Bat Drag’. And a big THANKS goes out to Lee Comeaux for shedding even more light on this strategy. This activates the springy fascia connecting what Thomas Myers, in his book Anatomy Trains, calls the Front Arm Lines to the multiple lines mapped throughout the torso.ĬLICK HERE for the “Babe Ruth Reveals Hand Tension?” Zepp swing experiment I did testing this. Start squeezing these fingers when the hitter picks up their front foot, and hold the finger pressure well past impact. Nothing banishes Bat Drag like top hand finger pressure…īottom three fingers of the top hand only (pinky, ring, and middle fingers)… It took two 30-min sessions, a week apart. It's not a fix all solution, but I do think it can be helpful for certain flaws.We used a couple ‘racing back elbow’ fixes for Zack, but it wasn’t until we used top hand finger pressure, that the fix stuck. We had to remind them that the rope was long enough to set their hands as normal.īut all in all I thought it was a neat tool. They would point their hands down toward their shoulder as to make sure the barrel was against their back. The biggest issue I saw was that when the kids were trying to keep the 'barrel' part of the rope bat against their back in setting up, they tended to not set their hands as if they would normally would in their stance. There was a couple of things that I could see that the Rope Bat could cause issues with if not addressed. The Rope Bat was forcing them to keep their head down.

#Make a rope bat how to#

We throw these kids some form BP all the time and you really never notice how much they pull off the ball because the contact they are making. Make sure you are setting up your starting position correctly when training with the Rope Bat Northern Baseball Training demonstrates EXACTLY how to use. The biggest flaw we saw yesterday was the hitters keeping their head down through contact. The Rope Bat gave him fits yesterday until he started keeping everything inside and commanding the 'bat head'. It has resulted in him hitting a bunch of weak pop ups to the right side of the infield.

One of bigger hitters has developed this bad habit the past couple of months and we have been working with him to break it. Another one is where the player keeps their elbows in but then ends up pushing out during the swing and not really releasing the hands. One or two of the boys have problems with casting and it resulted in little slow 't-ball' grounders right around the pitchers. If you are casting and not keeping your elbows in and creating bat lag, you are have no chance of hitting the ball hard off the tee.

The Rope Bat definitely will point out several swing flaws. At the end of practice we played a scrimmage using the rope bat and tee.

I was able to see the rope bat in action yesterday.