Most hitters that struggle hitting off a machine struggle in general
It uses a key bob. It's nasty.The do sell a Jugs machine that has a change up option for that. You get a remote with it that slows the wheel down fast. I've never used it, but I hear it is effective. It also adds a few hundred bucks to the cost.
Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of claims made on here that I don’t take serious, either.View attachment 29527
To be clear in that context somebody says they can do something all day long like that I was not taking it completely serious.
The Jugs machine I have used the speed change can vary depending on when you push the button. If you push button and immediately feed the machine the wheel will not have slowed down as much.I stand corrected.
Yup. There is always is.Lot of editing of posts in this thread.
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I can guarantee that the kids swinging when the ball was in the mitt did not have the front foot up before pitch release. Those are the ones that can benefit from using the machine with the emphasis on getting the foot up. I do it multiple ways. I’ll give the “Go” command (which means to foot up and stretch the upper) and once I see the foot up I put the ball in the machine. Or I’ll do like in the video I posted. Hold the ball up, take it down a notch (that’s the trigger for foot up) and then put it in machine. It’s got to be foot up and float forward. Many will get the foot up and shoulders get upside down and too much weight shifts back. They get stuck and are late. Pick the foot up against the head, float forward under control, prevent lunging by stretching the upper, prevent launching forwards by thinking launch backwards.I will say practicing faster pitching at the cages helped my daughter this weekend. I think a team mistakenly found their way into our B tournament. My daughter has been practicing switching between 37, 50 and 60 at the cages (I don’t tell her which I’m choosing). This pitcher had to be very close to 60 (my daughter is low 50s and the pitching lesson before her is mid 60s - and it was definitely in the middle of those two).
My daughter hit one that was a double (got stuck in the fence) to end their 2 inning 3 up 3 down streak. We had been practicing to get ready for highschool next year- but it very clearly came in handy that she was used to the speed. It definitely takes reps on the timing to get used to it. There were kids swinging after the ball was in the catcher’s glove.