Indoor Hitting Drills to Build a Fundamentally Sound Swing

with Jack Dahm,
Mount Mercy University Head Coach;
former University of Iowa Head Coach;
former Creighton University Head Coach;
2x Missouri Valley Coach of the Year (1999, 2002);
back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 1999 & 2000;
over 640 career wins

A challenge many coaches face is spending much of their practice time indoors due to weather, while the game of baseball is played outdoors. In this video, Jack Dahm shows you how to make the most of your indoor batting practice!

Coach Dahm begins with basic hitting fundamentals and progresses into a challenging mixed batting practice with multiple machines that incorporate useful technology.

Daily Tee Progressions & Moving Ball Drills

Create a fundamentally sound swing by perfecting basic mechanics off the tee. With more pitchers throwing 4-seam fastballs up in the zone, it's important to learn how to handle velocity at the top of the zone with high tee drills. Dahm's tee drills will prepare your hitters for everything opposing pitchers can throw at you!

Next, you'll see how to make your drills progressively more difficult by incorporating a moving ball. Coach Dahm shows how you can add variation to your batting practice by throwing pitches from offset angles and using different kinds of bats to keep your hitters on their toes.

Batting Practice

Whether a live pitcher or a pitching machine is throwing the baseball, batting practice is a staple of preparing hitters for game day. You'll learn how to use a BP pitcher or multiple pitching machines to help your hitters prepare for different types of pitches. Additionally, you will see how Coach Dahm uses HitTrax technology to help his hitters see where their hits would be going on a simulated field as they hit in the batting cage.

This video from Coach Dahm will show you how to incorporate multiple drills into your indoor batting practice to prepare your team for when it's time to actually get on the field. No matter the weather, Coach Dahm's indoor cage drills will prepare your hitters to crush the ball outside.

67 minutes. 2020.