Power Hitting Research Paper
Carriger
Writing for the College Bound
12 February 2013
Power Hitting 101 Most of my life has been about softball because of my passion for the sport and it is very fun. Although as players get older how fast girls can run, how many errors a girl makes, and her batting average really starts to matter. With that in mind I decided I wanted to improve my game, specifically my swing. When I first started my high school softball career is when a technique called Power Hitting was introduced to me. My coach, Mark Ingle coaches a Gold team in Olathe called Peppers. He is a wonderful, understandable, and funny kind of coach. This technique that he taught me is sure fire I believe because he started it with his own daughter, Marissa Ingle who has played for KU since her freshman year with the leading batting average. I’m sure as readers the question that comes to mind is what exactly is Power Hitting? Power hitting is the use of all muscle the batter has and how fast the batter is able to trigger that muscle …show more content…
Before this the batter has completed mostly upper body mechanics now we want to bring that together with the legs and focus on them. The batter will get adjusted in their stance. Now when doing the full swing the batter should be fluent, swinging at about 75% from here on out, and using the power and speed from the bottom half. Since we are focusing on the bottom half now the main point I believe to is essential is the “bug squish”. The bug squish needs to be quick and hard the batter should imagine being up to bat and almost creating hole just from the bug squish. Also along with the bug squish should be the hips and how fast the girl can close her hips in sync with her bug squish. Basically when the batter gets to a full swing of the tee they have to be able to pull all the mechanics together and get a solid straight hit. When I am in practice it only do maybe 20 full swings of the tee then I move to front
Writing for the College Bound
12 February 2013
Power Hitting 101 Most of my life has been about softball because of my passion for the sport and it is very fun. Although as players get older how fast girls can run, how many errors a girl makes, and her batting average really starts to matter. With that in mind I decided I wanted to improve my game, specifically my swing. When I first started my high school softball career is when a technique called Power Hitting was introduced to me. My coach, Mark Ingle coaches a Gold team in Olathe called Peppers. He is a wonderful, understandable, and funny kind of coach. This technique that he taught me is sure fire I believe because he started it with his own daughter, Marissa Ingle who has played for KU since her freshman year with the leading batting average. I’m sure as readers the question that comes to mind is what exactly is Power Hitting? Power hitting is the use of all muscle the batter has and how fast the batter is able to trigger that muscle …show more content…
Before this the batter has completed mostly upper body mechanics now we want to bring that together with the legs and focus on them. The batter will get adjusted in their stance. Now when doing the full swing the batter should be fluent, swinging at about 75% from here on out, and using the power and speed from the bottom half. Since we are focusing on the bottom half now the main point I believe to is essential is the “bug squish”. The bug squish needs to be quick and hard the batter should imagine being up to bat and almost creating hole just from the bug squish. Also along with the bug squish should be the hips and how fast the girl can close her hips in sync with her bug squish. Basically when the batter gets to a full swing of the tee they have to be able to pull all the mechanics together and get a solid straight hit. When I am in practice it only do maybe 20 full swings of the tee then I move to front