Looks to me like his eyes are on the pitcher at the windup, and he shifts focus to the batter in a ready position well before the arrival of the pitch. He's down and focused on the batter before the pitched ball is even in view.
Looks to me like his eyes are on the pitcher at the windup, and he shifts focus to the batter in a ready position well before the arrival of the pitch. He's down and focused on the batter before the pitched ball is even in view.
Man, the moment the pitcher is about to release, it's eyes on hitter and pure balls of the feet twitch mode to react.Most of the time, training starts 'at practice' players are reacting to a coach hitting the ball off the bat.
The defense gets accustomed to seeing hitting mechanics and reading the ball off the bat.
At times coaches use different swings to produce different type of hits
AKA ball off the bat
like pounding grounders or slicing the ball or pop flies.
Ready-set-go starts either the moment before or the moment when the coach throws a toss up to themself.
This is similar to say a third baseman or first baseman glancing at the pitcher and seeing the pitcher in they're ready position to start their motion.
( like the baseball video earlier in the thread)
The defense learns/ knows the timing in the pitch routine.
Myself playing a corner/field defense would never be staring at the pitcher when they were releasing the ball. Simply not enough time to refocus on the batter.
Prefer to read the batter and react to the batter.
I already know where the pitcher is throwing the ball... they're throwing it somewhere around the plate.
What I need to react to is what the batter is doing!
THIS!!Tennis balls with racquet. You can blast them at her without the fear of injury. Might sting a little but you wont break any bones. they will bounce out of her glove but that's ok. Also be sure to have you back to her to better mimic the right handed batter.