Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Becoming Your Own Batting Coach

By Dusty Mattingly, Batting Coach


You know how you swing right? Well I wouldn't be so sure! On the surface knowing your own swing seems easy. But, if I told you that you had to be your own batting instructor for the rest of your life, how do you think you would perform? My guess is the same thing would happen to you that happened to me. You see, I was always surrounded by great baseball batting coaches when I was younger. At the first sign of fault, they were quick to point me in the right direction so my performance never slipped. As a result, I didn't pay much attention to what they were saying or why, I just went with the flow!

In hindsight, all of my struggles rested directly on my ignorance as a baseball player when I was younger. During my baseball batting training sessions, I didn't pay enough attention to what I was being taught. Whenever something went wrong, my baseball coaches corrected it and I went on performing as usual. Well when I got to college, this wasn't the case! They expected me to perform without much instruction and it was on me if I didn't! Well for a good part of my career, I didn't!

In college, at least in my experience, they didn't care too much about correction or development. It was about getting stronger and performance. I effectively did one of the two! As a result, I had to go back and revisit every piece of baseball batting training info I had ever learned.

Given that I had been through dozens of camps and dozens of baseball coaches, it took awhile to figure out which information helped me perform the most consistently. Even though it took me awhile, I did figure it out! I spent the next two seasons as a Two-Time Captain batting over .300.

When push came to shove, all that I had to do was spend a little more time paying attention to what I was being taught when I was younger. Why am I making this correction? Why is coaching making this adjustment now? What caused me to fail? What caused me to succeed? If I had taken the time to just answers these questions, I would have known my own baseball swing a lot better!

Be ready for that moment, and come prepared. If you don't, you are sure to face the same type of struggles that I did.




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