Following Through On A Baseball Swing Video

A proper follow through will indicate that a baseball player provided plenty of power on a swing. Learn the mechanics of following through on a swing from a hitting instructor in this free video lesson.

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Eric Herrera is a hitting instructor in Phoenix. Since playing in the College World Series, he has coached little league teams and provided hitting instructions for five to eighteen year-olds.

Now in previous segments we've talked about getting into the box, getting yourself ready, getting your timing, actually hitting the ball, which is the most important, making contact. What are we going to talk about now, we're going to talk about the follow through. So we've talked about getting to here, getting to here. We've talked about this range, where your bat's from here to here. Well what do you do from here on? So, we're going to go like this, you make your contact, you need to drive through. Now you want to continue your natural motion and finish high. Now it doesn't really make a whole lot of difference, if, once you're to this point if you let go or if once you get to this point you keep both hands on it. It's more of a personal preference. Once the ball has actually left the bat, you're going to have, obviously have very little determination on where the ball is going to go. So it's more just a personal feeling, what do you feel comfortable with. So, typical follow through is, here I make contact, right through right there. As you can see, I'm still balanced. As we talked about earlier, I'm not falling out this way where I made my swing and that's my follow through. I didn't pigeon hole myself and fall over this way. Very simple, boom, here I make contact, I drive through, finish high still on balance and that's your follow through.

Following Through on a Baseball Swing Video

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