- Dec 11, 2010
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Great stuff- I wish I would have worked much more on defense with dd. Spent all my time on hitting... So you use a regular wood fungo bat? Anything special I need to look for?Yall have to put in some work! Also quit using a kids bad for fungi. So many do it wrong, but its easy with a little work. Soon you'll be cutting fly balls to the outfield
Top spin. Start short and focus on the top of the ball. 10 to 15 feet away. Try to purposely drive the ball in the ground. Once the light goes on back them up a little. Soon they'll be in position and you're looking like a champ.
If you set them in position you'll be guaranteed to hit a backspin ball which can hurt more than help because it screws up their timing and gives that goofy first hop pop up.
Backspin is good for working on digs at first. Set up at 5 or 6 and hit short hops with Backspin. It's also great for doing catcher one hops from the infield. Catcher hops from. The outfield require cutting the ball to mimick throws to the throwing hand side of the fielder. Glove hand side to the catcher
Balls with seams are better because dimple balls can bounce like superballs. If you already bave dimples go for it
I have some leather pitching machine balls. We don't use them for hitting any more- I'll have to check how they bounce. They are very hard. I have been tempted to get some slowpitch balls with leather covers for my machine, the seams are a lot lower. I see people using fastpitch balls with high seams for hitting out of Hack Attacks but don't like how that looks either.
ETA: @625ender A topspin grounder is probably not the hardest hit ball right? Maybe set up machine for 55-60 mph with drop ball spin?
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