You Doing This?

[softballperformance]

A few months ago, I was working with a struggling batter and I
Could not figure out what was the problem with her. Nothing
seemed to be wrong with her.. good swing, great work ethic,
coach able, strong and powerful, motivated and confident, etc.

So I decided to spend some time investigating her thought process by
asking her questions.

What I found out is that she often tried to guess pitches. In
other words, she was picturing in her mind a certain pitch, thus
preparing her body for something specific and most of the time,
something else shows (a different pitch).

That obviously creates a problem. Guessing is NOT effective.

If you are guessing, you have to guess what the pitcher will
throw and where. The odds are against you.

And once you guess something, you make-up your mind about it
and if you are thrown something else, you are left totally
unprepared.

Guess pitches is NOT effective.

Instead, you must learn how to read and react quickly and adequately
to whatever is thrown your way.

Basically, you must read what pitch it is, its location and
react automatically by either letting go or swinging the right
way adjusting to speed, movement and location.

How do you do that?

It takes experience - at bats in games and live pitching
in practices.

You have to train your eyes and your brain to recognize pitches.

So, stop guessing, start reading and reacting instead.

Guessing kills your ability to react appropriately to
whatever is thrown to you.


Marc Dagenais
"Your Personal Softball Peak Performance Coach"

For more tips, go to my website:
http://www.softballperformance.com