- Oct 19, 2009
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Not if they have had proper hitting instruction. If you are any closer and use proper mechanics, you will hit the inside pitches off of the handle and that is when kids get "shocked" from the vibration.
Here is a rather poor picture, from my lessons. You can't see the plate, but it is drawn on a bath mat (one of Hitter's ideas.)
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My daughter uses the same method of laying the bat across the plate, she was shown this at a Bustos Clinic and has lined herself at the plate ever sense then.
When daughter was in middle school coach had ever batter stand with their toes on the black, teams batting average was terrible. They had a summer team and daughter played on a different summer team and loved to pitch against them. They could not handle a good inside fastball.