AIRPLANE DRILL

Help your hitters understand hip hinge and shoulder plane throughout their swing.


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Hip hinge and shoulder plane are something that all great hitters do really well. In this drill, I'm going to teach you how to do both of those, especially for younger hitters, with a drill I like to call the Airplane drill.

In this drill, we're going to have our hitters set up and they're going to keep their arms all the way out, straight out the whole time. Don't bend your elbows. You can start out doing it in slow motion from launch position and then progress faster without pausing. So in this drill, the hitter is going to take their top hand to the tee with this drill focusing on hip hinge Side Bend and shoulder plane to get to this pitch. You can notice that our hitter does a really good job of shoulder plane here to get to this low pitch.

You can change the tee height to work on different pitch locations, and you can see as the pitch progresses up his shoulder plane is a little bit less.  So now I'm going to have the hitter finish their swing all the way through at each level as well, starting out with low. Perfect and then we'll do one more a little bit higher. As the hitters progresses, they can stop at contact in their first time. And as they get better and progressed further, they can go all the way through their swing.


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