subject: Learn To Keep Baseball Hitting Simple [print this page] Yogi Berra once said, "Baseball is 90% mental, and the other half is physical." If have been around baseball long enough, you know just how true that is. Although it doesn't just end with baseball, life is 90% mental, and the other half is physical. The real question is, why is that so true?
Well, in short, people have trouble keep things simple. For whatever reason, we as humans like to complicate things more than they have to be! Don't believe me? How many arguments have started while trying to park a car? Should be pretty stress free parking one car into one open parking space right? Oh no, by the time some one cuts you off, you miss a space, and your fellow passenger asks you what you are doing, chances are a small argument has started!
It's not 90% mental because it is so complex, it's 90% mental because it is so simple! And once again, we as humans find a way to complicate it more than it has to be! No matter how simple of a solution and issue has, we will find a way to make it the problem harder to solve than we have too. Here's some proof, how many arguments do you have over finding a parking space in a crowded parking lot?
It's all a part of this innate fear we have in being viewed negatively. No one wants to be embarrassed or the odd man out! And if you are, rest assured there is a rational, logical reason as to why you really weren't the odd man out, it just looked that way! How do you think that affects players on the baseball field? I'll tell you! One bad baseball batting swing, and players are ready to go with a paragraph of excuses and mechanical flaws! Players take every swing so personal that it can be tough to keep it simple!
He laughed and said, "Okay, how are you going to do that?" I responded with a couple of things I learned through some baseball batting training sessions, like load smooth and slow, turn my back hip, and finish towards the field of play I want to hit the ball. "Good, lets do that every time and see what happens!"
Here's an example. 1) Load smooth and slow 2) Drive the backside hard 3) Finish to the field you want to hit the ball. Holy revelation! Baseball batting, and baseball in general is that simple! If you tell yourself just those three action steps for the rest of your baseball batting career, you will not only be a better batter, but you will play more stress free baseball. Keep it simple and live within the basics!
