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    Hitting is Simple...Have You Figured it Out Yet?
    Hitting is Simple...Have You Figured it Out Yet?
    Hitting is Simple...Have You Figured it Out Yet?
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    Hitting is Simple...Have You Figured it Out Yet?

    By Al McCormick

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    Very early in my coaching career I was fortunate to meet a 10 year old who questioned everything! Initially I felt his questions were a test of my patience, but when he asked, “How long do I wait Coach?” during a hitting drill, I realized what I was saying did not make sense. Wow, and I thought I was the coach.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAl McCormick
    Release dateNov 3, 2010
    ISBN9780983134404
    Hitting is Simple...Have You Figured it Out Yet?
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    Al McCormick

    After years of prodding by previous players and parents I finally agreed to share my approach with players all over the world.As a coach, a parent, a teacher, and a mentor in the game of baseball and softball I realized the game I loved was falling trap to fallacies and gadgets.Until my 10 year old son asked me, "How long do I wait?,"I too used the baseball sounding lingo in an attempt to get my point across. This simple question changed how I taught, what I said, and made me realize how simple this game really is.So, when I am asked to provide a bio, I am very comfortable stating I am this guy who knows a lot about this game he loves because of a 10 year old who was not afraid to ask a question.

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      Hitting is Simple...Have You Figured it Out Yet? - Al McCormick

      Copyright

      ©2009 by Most Valuable Player, LLC

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America This book may not be duplicated in any way with the expressed written consent of the publisher, except in the form of brief excerpts or quotations for the purpose of review. The information contacted herein is for the personal use of the reader and may not be incorporated in any commercial programs, other books, databases, or any kind of software without written consent of the publisher or author. Making copies of this book or any portion for any purpose other than your own is a violation of the United States copyright laws.

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      Hitting is Simple...Have You Figured it OutYet?

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      The author and publisher of this book have used their best efforts in preparing the book and the programs contained in it. These efforts include the development, research, and test of the theories and programs to determine their effectiveness. The author and publisher make no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, with regard to these programs or the documentation contained in this book.

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      Acknowledgements

      A Teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

      Thomas Carruthers

      Over the years as a Coach, as an Instructor, and I would like to think as a Teacher, I have been fortunate to work with some very talented young men and women.

      With each player I always felt they changed my life as much as, or maybe more than I had hoped to change theirs. With each athlete I truly believe in Thomas Carruthers’ quote focusing my efforts to help them learn what it takes to be their own coach. Signature.png

      Preface

      It Takes Two to Speak the Truth –

      One to Speak and Another to Hear

      -Thoreau

      Very early in my coaching career I was fortunate to meet a 10 year old who questioned everything! Initially I felt his questions were a test of my patience, but when he asked, How long do I wait Coach? during a hitting drill, I realized what I was saying did not make sense. Wow, and I thought I was the coach.

      The How long do I wait… question forced me to realize the importance of what I was saying had to have some meat to it. I know, I can hear you now, don’t punish me with the obvious, but before you just accept what happened, what I found may surprise you. Each so-called hitting technique (hips versus hands, hands versus hips, linear versus rotational, knob to the ball, throw your hands at the baseball, stay inside the baseball, let it get in on you, and oh yeah, wait longer.) is not techniques at all. When you wipe away all the baseball sounding cliché you find each technique is just words some coach used to describe a certain aspect of a player’s swing. What is worse I found it very difficult to determine the origin of any of them. The more I researched, the more it became evident as to why we believe hitting a baseball is so difficult! We blindly believed in techniques that were not techniques, just a description of one aspect of what a hitter does.

      Okay I will say it, I think I uncovered the definition of over coaching!" Simply put, we take a mental function, dissect it physically and over coach it until becomes an emotional robotic process. Imagine the hitter at the plate thinking and re-thinking all the fallacies they have been taught as well, everything being yelled by their coaches and their parents prior to , as the pitcher winds up , and if he misses it, after the pitch . No wonder they say hitting a round object with another round object is the toughest thing to do in sports. As one Nuclear Physicist told me, "Bull-hockey, you don’t need a rocket scientist to realize our difficulty with hitting has nothing to do with physics!

      Ask a player to throw a ball from center field to the catcher in the air, then ask them to move up to second base and do the same thing, and finally have them throw to the catcher from the pitcher’s mound. When they are done ask them, "how do you know

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