- Pete Wilkinson

How would I
teach all this?

That's the tough part. The answer for me is to find where the student is. What does he do that I can help him build on?  What parts of this equation hinder his performance by his inability to utilize them?  I want to keep it simple. All unnecessary thinking is to be avoided. A good hitter doesn't want to be able to write the definitive workbook on the art and science of hitting - he wants his hands to make good decisions and create authoritative contact consistently.

• Look middle-away to let the ball travel and encourage efficient, small counter-rotation of the upper body through stride and foot-strike.
• Get to a strong, explosive position, with the lead-foot heel on the ground.
• Get the body's forward momentum stopped and converted to rotation at heel-strike.
• Pull the bottom hand inside the path of the ball and keep it pulling as long as possible.

• Solid habits of goal-setting, preparation, planning and thinking.
• Can-do-right-now command of attitudes in any circumstance.
• High, specific standards for this at-bat and at-bats in general.
• Faith, self esteem and confidence 'on purpose', not just as the result of the last at-bat, event, or series of at-bats or events.

Then, I want to condition the hitter physically in the ranges of motion necessary to create the speed and power he needs to be successful. I want to train and monitor his eyes in looking for the ball. I want to train his ego and his subconscious in dealing with success and failure and defining his own terms. I want to train and monitor the entire process of his approach.

Finally, I want to make sure he is - and feels that he is - in charge of his own results and his own execution of the process we call hitting.