Why You Need to Stop Squishing the Bug
September 23, 2009 by Dave Hudgens
Filed under Baseball Instruction
When coaches talk about rotational hitting, many of them teach their kids to keep all of their weight on the back leg, rotate the back leg and use a term called, “squash the bug”. The concept they are trying to teach is to rotate the back side, which is good. However if all of the weight stays on the back leg, the hitter will end up spinning off the ball. That is why it is so important to combine weight transfer with rotation.
Along with having poor weight transfer, this technique will also cause your player to drop the barrel of his bat and cause a long swing.
The SwingAway is great for working on correcting this issue in the swing, since you are forced to hit the inside portion of the ball in order to drive the ball up the middle.




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