I get a lot of messages from players and coaches asking various questions, so I figured I’d answer some of the more frequent ones in the form of a short blog. Thanks for reading! -Jason Ochart I want to start implementing Bat Speed Training/overload and underload training. Where should I star...
Swing plane is a commonly used, and certainly not a new, idea. Ted Williams famously discusses it in his book The Science of Hitting in 1971 and includes this awesome graphic. Swing plane is incredibly important, but the swing plane problem is much more complex than how it’s being discussed. ...
Individualization is seen as a must have with training programs. While this is good, it doesn’t come without some misunderstandings. We’ve touched on some of those issues before, but it sometimes seems like people get confused by what individualization means in relation to sports. At times, individu...
Subtitle: Efficient Brain Activity with Practice and Enhanced Perception-Action Coupling What’s Going on in a Hitter’s Brain? When it comes to the brain and hitting, we don’t really know much about what’s actually going on. If we’re able to understand the way a hitters brain works in a live situatio...
We wanted to test out some ideas with our pitching machine and pitcher release points. So be prepared for some cool gifs. First, we wanted to see how setting up the machine directly in line with the plate would look from both the right- and left-handed batters box. In the gifs below, the pitc...
In part one of this blog, we talked about the difference between internal and external cues when coaching hitters: Internal cue: having the athlete think about the movement of their body. External cue: having the athlete think about the effect of their movement. In summary, internal cues can have a...
Driveline Hitting is proud to announce the release of the Axe Bat Speed Trainers, powered by Driveline Baseball! Weighted Bat Training Program: how did we get here? When I interviewed for the position of Director of Hitting at Driveline, Kyle was very particular about one thing. It was imperative th...
We have a Part 2 to this series that demonstrates how we use constraint drills and overload/underload concepts. We get asked often, “How do you guys teach hitting mechanics?” “What movement patterns do you teach?” “What’s your philosophy?” Well, our approach is di...
This post was written by Jason Ochart, Driveline Baseball’s Lead Hitting Instructor. The goals of Driveline hitting are: 1) Create a data-driven program for developing hitters 2) Conduct research to help better understand hitting My background As a kinesiology student, I studied human movemen...
While perusing some YouTube videos of pro hitters to show my clients, I came across some more bad instruction (there’s plenty of it) – this time on hitting. I made a comparison video side-by-side of a common myth in hitting – that you can aid the swing by pushing or extending the h...
