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My company name is Epic. The picture below is my logo. I choose epic because when people come to me for training they will become epic at baseball.

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Stretching properly is important before game time because with out stretching you will feel pain, have cramps. pull your hamstring, and have a pull muscle. If you would like to understand click here for instructions to stretch properly.

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How to improve your Hand-Eye coordination.

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How to improve your Hand-Eye coordination.

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Hand-Eye coordination is very important in baseball because it helps you track the movements of hands with your eyes. You must have good Hand-Eye coordination because without it then you will not see a 90 mph fast ball coming from the pitcher.

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Baseball players have to be skilled in several areas, but most of these areas require the same basic skill -- hand-eye coordination. Fortunately, there is a seemingly endless supply of drills designed to improve this ability and make you a better player, regardless of your position on the baseball field. These drills mostly develop your coordination in the batter's box, but should also improve your ability to catch the ball.

1. Hit off of a batting tee. This is the most basic and easiest way to practice your swing. The goal is to see the ball and hit it. Use a baseball on the tee to begin with, but switch to tennis balls after you develop some skill. The smaller target of a tennis ball further develops your ability to see the ball and hit it. Set your body in a position to simulate an inside or outside pitch, moving the tee up or down for higher or lower pitches.

2. Play soft toss with a partner. Have a partner kneel and toss the ball underhand out in front of you. Do this drill within 6 feet of the net on a batting cage or a fence. As the ball hangs in the air, hit it into the fence. If you're a beginner, hit baseballs tossed directly across from you. This is the easiest path to follow with your eyes, and the larger ball is easier to hit. As you progress, switch to tennis balls and have your partner move to a diagonal behind you, tossing the ball slightly forward to get it in front of you. Focus your eyes on the spot in front of you where the ball will appear. Swing when the ball enters your field of vision.

3. Practice short toss with your partner. Short toss more closely simulates an actual pitch. From behind a safety screen, have your partner pitch to you from no farther away than 10 to 15 feet. The close range helps simulate a full-speed pitch. Use tennis balls once you master this drill with baseballs while keeping in mind that even talented players take years to develop their hand-eye coordination enough to be able to use tennis balls for short toss.

4. Use a pitching machine set to various speeds and pitches from a realistic release point. Position the pitching machine on top of a mound, if possible, or use one at a batting cage that's positioned flat on the ground. Some machines can be set to simulate curve balls and change-ups. Customize the speed and depth of break on both of these, as well as the speed of the fastball. When used from a real distance, this is the best simulation of real pitching.

5. Stand a few feet away from a wall and have a partner throw the tennis ball off of the wall. Catch the ball first using two hands, then one as you improve. This is a good way to improve your fielding. Whether you play in the infield or outfield, developing the fast hands required in this drill with the coordination to catch a smaller ball improves your fielding on game day. This drill is easily controlled because of the short throw made by your partner. Simply throwing more softly decreases the difficulty for novice players.

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How to Improve Hand-Eye Coordination for Baseball

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Baseball players have to be skilled in several areas, but most of these areas require the same basic skill -- hand-eye coordination. Fortunately, there is a seemingly endless supply of drills designed to improve this ability and make you a better player, regardless of your position on the baseball field.

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Running faster. If you run faster in baseball then you will get around the base paths faster. That will help your team out because you would be closer to scoring. Each point counts.

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Yes, strength-training helps runners add muscle. But to translate that gain into speed, you have to choose the right moves. "Runners should concentrate on building power-how fast you can use the force you've built up," says Jay Dicharry, director of the Speed Clinic at the University of Virginia. "Explosive movements help you activate your muscle power quickly during push-off." Do these exercises twice a week, preferably two days before or after a speedwork session.

Box Jump

Enables leg and core muscles to "turn on" faster during a run.

To Do: Face a sturdy knee-high box, an aerobic step, or a weight bench. With feet slightly apart, jump onto the box, taking care to land as softly as you can. Step back down. Do three sets of eight reps.

Rotating Lunge

Strengthens hips for better balance and stability during push-off.

To Do: Place the top of one foot onto a bench about three feet behind you. Lunge and rotate your torso 45 degrees to the right, back to center, and then to the left. Do two sets of eight reps.

Straight-Leg Deadlift

Develops propulsive force in the glutes and hip extensors, which will help your push-off as you increase your pace.

To Do: Place heavy weights on the floor in front of you. Hinging at the hips, with back straight, bend over and grab the weights. Keeping your core and glutes tight, straighten up. Slowly lower the weights to the floor. Do two sets of eight reps.

Kneeling Hip-Flexor Stretch

Improves range of motion in the hips.

To Do: Step into a lunge and lower your back knee to the ground. Keep your upper body straight while you tilt your pelvis to feel a stretch. Hold for one minute. Do three times on each leg.

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Strength Exercises to Help You Run Faster

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​ Yes, strength-training helps runners add muscle. But to translate that gain into speed, you have to choose the right moves. "Runners should concentrate on building power-how fast you can use the force you've built up," says Jay Dicharry, director of the Speed Clinic at the University of Virginia.

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How to get and stay in your           power position. 

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How to get and stay in your           power position. 

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Do you know what starts your swing? If you said your legs you are correct. Your legs is the most important thing a persons swing. As you finish your swing you should end up like the picture below. The black circle represents your power position. Power position is a position that your legs make after you swing. Your power position should be the shape of a V after you take your level swing.

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How to throw a baseball from any position to any base.

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How to throw a baseball from any position to any base.

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Throwing a baseball. People say that throwing a baseball is the hardest part of the game. But they are all wrong. After you learn the basics about how to field a groundball, how to throw accurate, and how to grip the ball when you throw, you will be a great player. Some people ask how will i remember how to field the groundball and throw it to the base where i can get an out. Well, after you play baseball for a long time you will remember to Keep ball at chest, Line up to your target, keep the ball facing away from you, and use your finger a wrist to throw the ball. After every out, timeout, or foul ball, either your shortstop or second baseman will tell you where the play will be, how many outs are there, and how many runners are on.

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Once we get our grip we need to know how to use our body the most efficient way possible so we can make a strong and accurate throw. This article on the mechanics of throwing is part 2 of 3 on How to Throw a Baseball by MN Twins Doug Bernier.

Continued from How to Throw a Baseball, Part 1 - The four seam grip.

1. Keep ball at chest. To start our throw lets have our throwing hand holding the ball in our glove right in the middle of our body, around chest height.

2. Line up to your target. Have your feet and shoulders in line with your target.

3. Your front side and back side will be working together. When starting your throwing motion and you separate your glove from the ball. If your glove elbow goes straight towards your target, your throwing hand will be going in the correct position back. If you close your body off, your throwing hand will be far behind your body making an accurate throw much more difficult. Your two sides work opposite of eachother, so if one side is off, your other will be off also. Your body tries to stay in a strong position and to do that, your back side compensates by doing the extreme opposite of what your front side does. Stay in a straight line to your target so you don't fight against your body. Let it work for you, not against you.

4. When taking the ball out of the glove, keep it facing the ground as long as possible. Your glove hand should follow along with what your throwing hand is doing. It should feel like you are leading your glove to your target with the heel of your glove hand. This is a strong position to throw.

The first instinct for many people is to take the hand out of the glove and have the baseball facing toward where they are throwing. Their glove hand will follow what the throwing hand is doing and this will be a weak throwing position.Looking for a practice net for throwing or hitting? We tested and reviewed baseball nets. See our results here.

5. Take the ball from facing the ground to facing behind you. Once your hand can't go back any more and it is time for your hand to be in the strongest position to throw the ball from. Keep thinking of taking the ball from facing down to the ground to facing the centerfielder (if you were pitching off the mound). This position will create as much torque as possible for your body.

Your glove hand will continue out and a little upward and your glove will go in the direction of where you are throwing the ball. Some people will use their glove and some will use their glove elbow to line up where you want the ball to go.

6. When throwing the baseball, take your chest to your glove. You will take your front elbow and bring it back into your body and keep your glove in front of you so that it will eventually touch and meet up with your chest. You want to keep everything tight. The tighter you are the quicker you will fire. This is similar to ice skaters that when they want to spin faster they start moving their limbs in closer to their body.

This move will start some torque, at the same time your legs will start to fire and your hips will start to open up toward your target.

7. Throw the baseball. The last thing to fire is your throwing hand and the ball to come out. You will follow your body, the ball will go from facing the centerfielder to turning toward your target. Your elbow will stay at about 90 degrees and you will feel that you are pulling the ball down.

You want to reach and get as much extension as possible as you throw toward your target. This is like a whip effect. The further down the whip the quicker it snaps.

8. Use your fingers and wrist to throw. The big muscles set everything up for your little muscles to really fire and get the most out of your throw. Just working on using your wrist and fingers more you will really see a difference in the velocity of your throws.

Continue to follow through and don't cut it off until your arm has decelerated as much as possible.

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How to Throw a Baseball, Part 2: Mechanics of Throwing

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Once we get our grip we need to know how to use our body the most efficient way possible so we can make a strong and accurate throw. This article on the mechanics of throwing is part 2 of 3 on How to Throw a Baseball by MN Twins Doug Bernier.

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Swinging the bat is a very important part on the offensive side. You must make contact to make it on base so you can score. Hitting is probably the hardest thing to do in baseball. You must have fast bat speed, good hand-eye coordination, and you must remember the steps of how to make contact.

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Perfect Swing Mechanics 3 Simple Steps | Baseball Hitting Drill (Pro Speed Baseball)

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Click Here for FREE VIDEO: http://www.prospeedbaseball.com/hit-with-power-to-all-fields-baseball-power-hitting-series/ Perfect Swing Mechanics 3 Simple Steps | Baseball Hitting Drill (Pro Speed Baseball) In this video we give you the simple 3 step tool to follow to learn how to perfect any swing mechanic.

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After hitting a pitch you must run as fast as you can to first base. After you have done that you must see where the ball is and decide whether you should run to second base. You could also listen to your first base coach telling you to round the base, run through, or go to second.

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The shortest distance between two points is a line, most mathematicians will tell you. But researchers at Williams College have shown that upon hitting a potential double or a triple, baseball players would be wise to take a curved path.

Ballplayers intuitively know this, but the new study offers precise suggestions for the optimal angles to take, and it suggests that baserunners ought to start the cuve right off the bat, but most often they don't.

By cutting off the corners, an average runner can round the bases 20 percent faster than one who might try taking a straight path from base to base, the new calculations show.

"If you hit that ball and you know you're going to go farther than first base, you shouldn't run straight for first base," said Frank Morgan, professor of mathematics at Williams College. "Right from the beginning, you should head to the right, 25 degrees off to toward the dugout, right from the base path to the outside. Don't wait. Do it right away."

The approach is within the rules for Major League Baseball, the researchers say.

If there's a potential triple in the offing, then as the runner rounds first, he should continue the curve as he heads to second base. For a possible in-the-park homer, he should then bulge out even further between second and third so he's is lined up to make the straight sprint home, Morgan said.

In real life, often a runner begins by heading straight to first base as the ball leaves the bat. Only partway down the baseline will he begin to veer right if he think's extra bases are possible.

"By the time you're done curving to the right and then curving back to the left ... you've wasted a lot of energy and time and distance," said co-researcher Stewart Johnson. "It's much better to start out running angled off to the right and run around first base in one smooth arching curve."

Using the "veer to the right just before the base" approach, a typical player will take 22.2 seconds to complete an in-the-park home run. That same player using the optimal strategy of a constantly curving path can round the bases in 16.7 seconds.

"I don't think you're ever going to convince a baseball player that if you hit the ball, his first couple of steps should be away from the field of play toward his own dugout," said co-researcher Davide Carozza. "But it would be cool to see someone actually test it out."

The science of baseball is getting sharper, meanwhile.

Morgan wonders if the big leagues will test out his group's new study.

"We haven't heard from the major leagues yet, but I don't see why they shouldn't give this more attention," said Morgan. "We'll see what happens. By the next World Series, maybe they'll let me in the booth there with them. Sometimes, math takes thousands of years to catch on. I'm in no hurry."

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Baseball Science: Perfect Baserunning Path Revealed

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The shortest distance between two points is a line, most mathematicians will tell you. But researchers at Williams College have shown that upon hitting a potential double or a triple, baseball players would be wise to take a curved path.

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Catching the ball is the easiest part of playing defense. If you have caught a piece of paper, a ball, or a hacky sack you can catch a baseball. All you have you have to do is put of your glove and squeeze when you feel the ball hit your glove.

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Baseball Instruction: Catching: Receiving the Pitch

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The position of the glove is also important to promote the illusion that a pitch is a strike. For instance, you learned to catch a ball with your palm facing the center of the plate. But, on a low pitch (a borderline strike), if you catch the ball with the palm down, you give the umpire the impression that the pitch is too low.

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If you have a good arm, great velocity, and good accurately you can become a pitcher. If you want to become a pitcher you must learn the grips, get into wind-up position, lift your left leg, swing your arm around your body, push your leg of of the mound, and throw your pitch.