- Dec 11, 2010
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Fire that dude, lol!I have mixed feelings. My kid has never been able to transfer what she does on the tee to her game swing. That could be due to incompetency of the instructor, I don't know. At this point we do try to work on things off the tee but in reality it is probably more of a warmup than anything else.
In the cage you can see this pretty well. It would be even better to hit onto a field, weather doesn’t permit that year around here.I strongly believe in long tee. The hitter and the coach get a lot of feedback seeing the trajectory and spin of the ball off the bat. For example, I can tell by the spin of the ball if my DD is sawing across the ball. You can't see that hitting into a net 4 feet away.
If I could go back and do it all over again, we would go to the trouble of hitting on a field as much as possible. Tee, toss, machine, all of it. It’s worth it.
When you do have to hit into a net, hit into a marked net from a certain neutral tee height (or figure out multiple tee heights and markings.) Our goal was like 18-28 degrees, that’s too low of a trajectory... After all these years I’d be shooting for 26-36 degrees or something like that. Actually, I would make launch angle consistency a tee goal….. Pick one launch angle as a goal etc..
Man I wish I could go back and do a few things different!