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What makes the SwingPath unique?
There are many differing thoughts about what the best way to train your swing is. The one common ground that most of them agree on is that the goal is to match your swing plane with the pitch path for as long as you can while maintaining a strong position. To make solid contact as often an solid as possible, matching our bat path to the pitch path is the best way to accomplish this. So once we've determined that one of the most important aspects of an effective swing is to get on plane with the pitch early and stay on plane as long as we can while maintaining a position of strength, we have to find ways to train this consistently.
Typical hitting aids might allow for the repetition of swings, but they don't allow the hitter to truly practice meaningful swing plane repetition because they don't fully account for the path of a pitch. The swing plane is observed as a product of how the ball is hit off a tee, meaning a good ball flight (line drive) means it must've been a good swing plane, and a bad ball flight (pop up or ground ball) must've been a bad swing plane. However, this ignores the fact that bad swing planes can catch the ball at the right time off a tee and create a good ball flight and vice versa. Everyone knows of someone that hammers balls off a tee, then takes OK batting practice, and then can't really hit well in games. Our thought is that a swing is solely judged by how it performs in-game, because that's the only time it matters.
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Up until now, there hasn't been a great way to see a player's swing plane and how accurately it lined up with the pitch. Most resort to recording a swing during a game, and analyzing the plane after. While these methods may work when players are first learning the sport, they don't allow the coach to adjust the hitter in real time and make the process easier for the hitter to understand. It can be difficult but it's extremely important to account for the path of the pitch when swinging so you can match your swing plane to it. Without taking the ball path into account when training, the hitter can take any kind of swing plane to the ball, which can cause players to repeat a swing that won't give the hitter consistent success. So then the question is, how can we take meaningful swings in repetition in practice that account for the plane of the pitch?
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Insert the Swingpath.​
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The SwingPath is a visual representation of the path the pitch takes on its way to the hitter. This allows the hitter and coach to analyze the swing plane from a completely new perspective: how it actually matches up with a pitch path. By having the ball in front of both of them, they can now both see where the bat should be at all times. Since we know that the best way to increase your chances of making solid contact is to put your barrel into the path of the pitch for as long as possible, we can now accurately train this. This is what makes the SwingPath the perfect tool to train a swing that will translate to hitting in games. The SwingPath allows the hitter to see and feel the correct position their body and bat should be in when swinging because it takes the path of the pitch into account.
The SwingPath also makes it easier for the coach to communicate with the hitter by placing the entire ball path in front of both of them. Now coaches no longer have to figure out a way to explain what "getting on plane" with an invisible pitch path means because it's sitting right there. They can now focus on critiquing and analyzing the swing in real time, instead of the hitter taking full-speed swings that may or may not be developing correct muscle memory. This creates a coaching environment that's conducive to success because swing plane flaws can be spotted and corrected from swing to swing.
There are also added benefits of having the pitch sitting in front of the hitter, and one is accurate slow motion reps. Slomo swings with the pitch path as a guide means coaching the correct swing plane is easier to build. The SwingPath also allows you to see what part of your bat is exposed to the ball path throughout the contact zone. This can expose tiny flaws like casting even a little bit at the start of a swing. This is especially important on inside pitches where hitters can get sawed off because they cast and expose the handle to the ball path mid-swing.
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With the SwingPath, you can see:
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-- the best way to attack the pitch path
-- when your bat enters and exits the pitch path
-- how your swing plane has to adjust for different pitches
-- how pulling off affects your time in the contact zone
-- how you have to move your front and back arms to be able to get your bat in position to enter the pitch path as early as possible
-- the importance of getting your back elbow in the slot
-- how your front arm can determine your swing plane
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and much more.
don't just hit the ball -
attack the ball path!
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