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High tee is nothing new, but I figured I could take advantage of our lack of space and instead of doing self toss use a high tee to get the same effect as self toss. Usually, high tee drills promote staying on top and getting hands above "pitch"
Well, I made the players laugh with my explanation of we are not looking to stay on top of a rise ball but instead hit that sucker pitch 240 ft and we won't ever see that pitch again, but since we know how to hit we wish we would...
The goal is to laser the ball and tilt and hit the ball on deep HR trajectory. Nothing changes on a pitch in any other location - we laser the ball and tilt.
Here is one of my players doing the high tee.
What I like is that without realizing it you have to aggressively pronate the lead forearm to laser the high tee. I see hitters get a little lazy on lower tee set ups with the bottom hand and plunge the arms.
I know Rich has said it in some manner, but it bears repeating: You cannot tilt from 2 legs. You cannot laser from 2 legs. You cannot turn the barrel deep from 2 legs.
Well, I made the players laugh with my explanation of we are not looking to stay on top of a rise ball but instead hit that sucker pitch 240 ft and we won't ever see that pitch again, but since we know how to hit we wish we would...
The goal is to laser the ball and tilt and hit the ball on deep HR trajectory. Nothing changes on a pitch in any other location - we laser the ball and tilt.
Here is one of my players doing the high tee.
What I like is that without realizing it you have to aggressively pronate the lead forearm to laser the high tee. I see hitters get a little lazy on lower tee set ups with the bottom hand and plunge the arms.
I know Rich has said it in some manner, but it bears repeating: You cannot tilt from 2 legs. You cannot laser from 2 legs. You cannot turn the barrel deep from 2 legs.