Instinct Can Be Learned: Creating Better Technique
Hitting is a vital baseball skill. A hitting DVD or taking hitting drills can help. So can some basic pointers.A ball the size of a peach comes screaming across the plate at 90 miles an hour. Wave your hand in front of your face as quickly as possible. See anything? Now imagine the ball slipping to the outside or suddenly dropping down. Professional Baseball players start their swing before the pitcher lets the ball go. At ninety miles an hour the ball takes .5 seconds to cross the plate. It takes about .4 seconds to get the bat across through the hitting zone. That allows for a tenth of a second to make a decision as to whether and where to swing. A batter can’t think in the traditional way that people think when talking to each other. A batter must react, eyes, breath, brain and body are so connected that thoughts are pushed aside and instinct takes over. Instinct is not aa natural born trait. It is how the body responds automatically after it has been trained. There are many elements that go into developing hitting skills. Several of the elements; bat selection, positioning at the plate, stance and grip, occur prior to the ball being thrown and the swing begins.
