Hey, welcome to 4realBasepal.com. That's 4realBasepal.com. My name is Coach Tom Garjulo. Today we're going to be talking to you about batting. Okay, so now we've got a nice grip. We've talked about what we want to do with our hands, getting the bat out in the fingers. Now we're going to move down below to our feet. Our feet are going to be stepping into the box with our back foot first. We're going to establish ourself in the box, making sure the umpire and the catcher and the coach is calling those pitches. Notice that we know where we're standing in that box in relationship to home plate. So we get our back foot in, we make sure when we're ready, then we step in and don't step in unless you're ready. We don't want to get a quick pitch. So you step in back foot first. You're going to make sure you can get yourself to the outside part of the plate because you're going to have to hit those balls that look like strikes or the ones that look like balls. We're going to have to make sure we can get to those pitches and cover our plate. So plate coverage is important. Again, we're going to step in with our back foot first, make sure we've got a nice loose grip as we step in. We want to make sure you can get to the outside part of the plate. And then you're going to get your bat down here. We'd like to also make sure our feet are wider than our hips. We're going to nice athletic power stance. We're not too wide. We're not inside our hips. We want to make sure we're in a comfortable athletic power stance. We like to call this an A stance. Anyone's coaching the youngsters, an A stance looks like a capital letter A. Okay, so we get our grip, our stance. We're now ready to put our back into a resting position on our shoulders. That means the pitchers are going to get to the right and we're going to throw the pitcher. And the pitcher gets on the rubber. We go from the rest of the position to the ready position. We make sure our hands are coming up. In the same angle, the bat doesn't change angles. We're not going to pick it up and wrap the bat around our head. We're not going to lay the bat down. We want to have a nice 45 degree angle here. And from resting, we go to ready. We're ready. We're one step ahead of the pitcher. And that pitcher gets to his release point. He's about to release that ball. We want to get to a loaded position. And that's going to be the three S's. That's a short, soft stride. We want to have a couple of two, three inch stride. Just something to get our hands going. It's a timing mechanism for our hands. We're going to push our hands maybe back slightly. We'll have our hands in a position where we can attack from the top of the strike zone, down through and get behind that ball. So it's a down and through. We want to bring our bat down with the handle first. Our hands close to our body. No arms extending like when you take some coaches, we'll call this casting. When you cast the fishing pole, you're taking that energy and releasing that energy. We want to keep that energy, that flexed arm. We want to keep that as long as possible until you're going to get to that point where you're going to pull the trigger and deliver and extend it arm on the ball. That's where you're going to create good bat speed. Get the head of this bat moving through that ball as fast as possible. Geometry plays a big part in that ball. We want to keep that distance. We want to keep that distance. We want to make sure that we're going to get our feet in alignment. We don't want our feet to have an open stance or a closed stance. We want to make sure we have a balanced stance. Our toes, it's called toe to toe to your target being the picture from the pitch. So these are a chance to get the inside pitch and equal chance to the outside pitch. We're not going to have ourselves closed where it's tough to get to the inside pitch. Here are hips where we have an open stance and we allow that picture to work on the outside part of the plate where we can't get to that page. Again, we step in. A nice little script, right foot first. Back foot first and left foot second. Making sure we can get to the outside part of the plate. We get ourselves in a relaxed position and ready. Excuse me, resting position. From resting, we go to ready, from ready, we go to the loaded position. The three S's again, the short, soft stride. At few short, soft stride, you're gonna pull the knob of that bat, keep the bat head high, attack the ball from top to bottom and get behind that ball. So it's at down and three, and then finish up top. So we sit on tires high low high, start high, come down low, get three ball, power charge, full depth power, and then we're gonna finish up top.