The best baseball hitting drill that you can do by yourself is the self-toss drill.
The self-toss drill is an awesome hitting drill because all you need is a ball, a bat, and some open space. You don't have a lot of equipment? No problem. You don't have a teammate, coach or parent who can throw balls to you? No problem. You don't like waiting your turn at practice to receive eight straight balls from the coach that occasionally hits kids? No problem. The self-toss drill is designed to be performed with minimal equipment, by yourself, and maximize your hitting reps.
When players practice any of the five self-toss variations that I’m going to show you, players are going to have to make the necessary adjustments to give themselves a good toss, adapt the rhythm and timing of their swing to make solid contact, hit the ball out front of their body, and consistently get into an athletic hitting stance in order to crush those line drives that we're looking for.
The self-toss drill can also help maximize practice efficiency because a coach can set up a player to work on the self-toss variations and hit “live” balls to some fielders. This allows the coach to take some of the other players and work on different facets of their game.
There are four key teaching and execution points when performing the self-toss drill.
1) We want to be aggressive and hit the ball no matter where it's tossed. Be a master of solid contact regardless of the pitch location.
2) Practice tossing the ball up with both hands and utilizing all the different self-toss variations because each one is a unique hitting challenge that forces the hitter to adapt. Also consider that the variations of the drill that you struggle with the most will usually hold the largest room for improvement as you progress.
3) Focus on hitting line drives and if you're not hitting line drives make any adjustment necessary to start hitting line drives. As you get closer to achieving the desired line drive result your mechanics will naturally get better. You get visual feedback when you hit the ball but you can't necessarily see how you move.
4) Compete and track your progress to see faster improvement. For example how many line drives are you hitting out of 10? Track it. How far are you hitting the ball? Go out there, put a cone down, and track it. Now you've got a benchmark score that you constantly try to beat.
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Why The Self Toss Drill Is Valuable
1:34 - Demonstrations
3:00 - Key Teaching Points
4:08 - Challenge! and Consequence?
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