Literally argued with my little league coach about this.

@cedricnora4481

Жыл бұрын

100% same, he said “we don’t want pop ups, we want line drives and foul balls”. Wasn’t thinking about the inside pitches that literally need an upswing in order to not get pinched up and tomahawked

@Plata4x

Жыл бұрын

@@cedricnora4481 well I grew up in the 90's when "squish the bug" was preached...SMH!

I got the walk off hit for my baseball team 3 weeks ago, first walk off of my life at 37 years old, and i owe a huge part of my success to this teacher man right here. It wasn't a cheap hit either, i roped a 0-1 pitch to left center, and it felt like I had all the time in the world swing at it. No coach has ever taught me to swing a bat better than this. I have more power and reaction time to play with when I apply these techniques and mechanics successfully (practice makes perfect!) Hitting is already insanely hard, and this is a great tool to have in your bag!

Miss JD

You’re amazing. Keep up the great work. Would’ve loved to work with you

To be wrong and admit it is noble.

@Asshat237

Жыл бұрын

Well, he wasn't really the one who was wrong. He was just a child who trusted that the coaches knew what they were talking about.

I was taught to swing for contact and it was forcing me to hit line drives and grounders. My swing naturally changed as i got more confidence but i didn’t realize what i was doing

John Olerud, the best swing ever

@kirbyrobinson525

Жыл бұрын

Facts long Lanky smooth stroke like Teddy Williams

@HumanGorillaHormone

Жыл бұрын

Also wore a basecoach helmet on the field. That's a horrible look but suited him.

Squish the bug is for very beginner children to help them keep balance... Even Mattingly teaches down like an ax, but when you look at swimgs no one swimgs down. Palm up keeps the bat in the zone longer.

I keep teaching my son to squish the bug with his back foot when he swings. Now thats wrong? So what is the best advice on that?

@rinck17

Жыл бұрын

Squishing the bug usually just happens naturally on a swing if you're doing everything else right.

The old swing didnt need mlb to juice the balls to make homeruns. The old swing serviced Paul Goldsmidt pretty well, as well as Arod, Miguel Cabrera, Albert Puljos and many other future H.O.F.s. There is no right or wrong way. Only what works for you and what doesn't. Shame that a prof mlb player cant see that. Especially with examples all around him throughout his career.

@Football_editz360

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know what ur talking abt bc there is a good way and a bad way teacherman is the good one all the other ways are bad, some people might hit well with that swing but it’s still wrong and I don’t see why you can’t realize that

@jonathansantana6239

Жыл бұрын

@@Football_editz360 you sound silly. There is no good way or bad way. Only ways that work for you. That is teacherman problem. He has ppl thinking his way is the right way. Thats how he makes money. If his way were the only right way, dont you think every mlb team would be teaching this? Albert Puljos, according to You and teacherman, has been hitting Wrong his whole Hall of Fame career. As well as Miguel Cabrera. There are different philosophies to approaching hitting. The baseball swing he's teaching is over 30yrs old btw. Not a new phenomenon.

@nesssixteen6106

8 ай бұрын

​​@@jonathansantana6239There isn't a "right" way to do anything, but there is a better/ more efficient means of doing anything to achieve what you want. If you want a swing that allows you to generate power while also making you hit more often, there are mechanics that objectively allow you to achieve that more effectively than other methods. Guys like Pujols don't have a bad swing, they just didn't know how to teach, or they didn't understand what their body was doing. "Knob to the ball" is bad teaching. A good swing may *result* in the bat knob facing the ball, but if that's your primary focus in the swing, you're missing so many more important characteristics that matter. But yes, there absolutely is a "better" way to swing, just as there are better techniques to achieve the best, consistent results with any skill. Absolute nonsense to believe otherwise.

I figured out I was being taught incorrectly a bit to late I blossomed too late I wish I had the internet back then .

It’s a contradiction. You realize what you were doing was not right yet it got you to the big leagues.

@keithqueen352

Жыл бұрын

No, it didn't. He changed his swing two years before he left the minors.

@nesssixteen6106

8 ай бұрын

There are still people who make it to the majors with bad mechanics. Pedroia and Heyward both had pretty bad mechanics when they were first drafted. One improved their swing substantially, the other struggles mechanically. I'll let you guess which is a better hitter.

You definitely do still “squish the bug”… but definitely not A to B

Keep your back elbow up! Just about everything taught is not a universal rule for hitting. They’re aren’t really any universal rules for it but there are patterns that hitters have like the slot their swing starts from no matter where their hands are, using your hands to adjust to inside or outside pitches, slow with the body quick with the hands. They never teach about hips and keeping them closed as long as possible especially on outside pitches. That helps keep the hands back and driving the ball up the middle

@i8FriedRice

Жыл бұрын

Telling 8 year olds to keep their back elbow up might end up with a couple chicken-wingers

Barry bonds and ken griffey jr squished the bug

@Asshat237

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but it happens for them naturally. Their swing wasn't a result of them trying to do that. It's the other way around. If you have to try to do it your swing is already way off.

@HBK360MUSIC

Жыл бұрын

@@Asshat237 most of the swing comes naturally. If ur teaching what you should do with your back foot while swinging a bat, you’re doing it wrong

@Asshat237

Жыл бұрын

@@HBK360MUSIC don't mean to be adversarial or attack you. I'm just trying to understand. It's possible Teacherman's swing method MIGHT not be the best. It MIGHT not be the most mechanically efficient to maximize force and how quickly the bat can get into the zone and how long it stays there when it does, which would seem to give you more time to react and make contact. A hallmark of TM's method is users of it always seem to say is "i felt like i had all the time in the world. I had so much more time to react than with my old swing". It might not be the best BUT i have yet to see a better method. The classic Jeff Frye knob to the ball push swing (not saying he invented it, just that he was TM's main adversary pushing that swing method-hah!) most definitely ain't it. That swing is clearly mechanically inefficient and I think that's closest to the swing most people have naturally. If the swing comes so naturally why do so many pro players have that weak swing? Why do they need help? Correct me if I'm wrong, but i'm almost certain TMan doesn't teach what to do with the back foot - except NOT to move it. Keep your weight on it as long as possible until the weigh shifts by the snap of the barrel

@nesssixteen6106

8 ай бұрын

​@@Asshat237Richard has explained before, but the back foot isn't something he teaches about because there's so much variance between great hitters that it becomes a pointless move to teach.

I still don't understand why saying, "squish the bug" is so bad. The best coaches use short phrases to make a complex thing simple. So wtf you want the coach to say now, because Ive never actually heard someone come up with something different that doesn't result in the player "squishing the bug".

Hearing this shit i had such pathetic coaches makes me wanna throw up 😂

But it's gotten you to the majors...smh you'd be a fool to change..

Swing down isn’t wrong swing that teaches us approach

What am I supposed to do instead of squishing the bug

@pbbrut

Жыл бұрын

Put out the cigarette. 😂

@michaelallen1154

Жыл бұрын

@Jason Beckwith it's not that you do or don't squish the bug. The main issue is that people teach things like squish the bug as if that was what caused something in the swing motion to be more or less effective. In fact, squashing the bug is simply the result of unloading the swing from a proper back hip ball and socket coil affect. Rich (the owner of this channel) teaches this protocol. It is pointless to tell a kid to squish the bug if he is shifting his weight before he swings or in any other motion that is not swinging from the back leg. Conversely, if you teach the back hip-joint coil properly, the bug-squish happens automatically. In other words, if you have to tell a kid to squish the bug, you haven't taught him to hip-coil his load properly.

@jasonbeckwith2823

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelallen1154 oh gotcha thanks

@michaelallen1154

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonbeckwith2823 👍

Bums

Yeah, no one knew how to hit a baseball professionally up until recently. Get over your.

Hes still wrong lol. Swing down off the back foot squished the bug and you will swing up. Same as Barry bonds chipper Jones and many more big hitters.

@99yankeecrab

Жыл бұрын

He was saying none of those great hitters were doing those techniques when he was comparing his swing to thiers. So neither bonds or chipper jones swung down on the ball your on youtube look up those swings from the side and youll see your wrong.

@pyaeger911

Жыл бұрын

Incorrect. Go watch their swings from EVERY angle, if you’re able to.

@ThatGuyProdz

Жыл бұрын

BS

@99yankeecrab

Жыл бұрын

@@pyaeger911 Lmfao I did I dont think you did. Zero swinging down on the ball stop being lazy and do your research instead of saying "iNcOrReCt"

@pyaeger911

Жыл бұрын

@@99yankeecrab I was replying to the same guy you were. I don’t know why your name popped up

In college I argued with my stupid coach about that, I told him that “swinging down” isn’t really swinging down, if it was I would hit the ball to the ground…. He could explain it correctly as he didn’t know it well either.

Being taught to swing down isn't how you're going to hit. Its 1 step of many to find your swing while speeding it up. Eventually your swing evolves the more your learn the game.