ON DECK PREP

How To Cool Your Jets and Let Your Butterflies Go

At Combat Hitting you're taught to desensitize your nervous system in your pre-at bat prep. In conjunction with this technique, I've borrowed strength and stretching techniques from the Russian Sports Program and incorporated some aspects from Martial Arts into a pre-at bat routine.
Desensitizing the nervous system by using breathing techniques followed with slaps and pats from toe to head will have a positive effect towards relaxation which improves focus. Additional on deck prep steps include using your hitting mantra along with muscle memory work with a MP30 Training Bat, quick depth perception drills, and fine tuning your dynamic visual acuity with fine centering and soft centering reference points...all are reinforced here in the on deck circle. After this, you're ready "to see the ball; hit the ball".
For better hitting,
Del