"Mike Epstein on Hitting"
“Mike Epstein on Hitting” is a compendium of the extraordinarily popular articles
he has written for the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
Here’s a sampling of the information you’ll find:
How to make adjustments to the “Minus 3s.” Since the mandated use of the
"minus3" bats in 2000, home runs and hitting production are off OVER
30% (Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, September 5, 2003). “Mike Epstein on Hitting” brings you the timely advice needed to offset the heavier and less-resilient minus3s, so you don’t suffer the same problems of many of today’s amateur hitters.
Is it possible to TEACH power? Absolutely! “Mike Epstein on Hitting” fully covers “torque” and its vital role in the swing. Once you understand torque, it is easy to see why 95% of baseball’s Hall of Fame hitters have used it—and why today’s best hitters do, also.
How do we learn to hit? “Mike Epstein on Hitting” traces how we learn to hit from our earliest days and challenges all of us with its engaging question of “Do We Teach What We Really See?—or do we teach what we hear, or read, or were taught when WE were playing.
Do we teach “Myths?” “Mike Epstein on Hitting” introduces some of baseball’s “commonly taught hitting principles,” which become real “attention-getters” as the book presses on with lucid examples undermining these “imagined” movements.
Style versus Technique. Learn why style is “personal” and technique is “universal”—and knowing the difference between the two is the first step to teaching and understanding productive hitting mechanics.
Torque and its positive effect on bat quickness, bat velocity, and power. It is, without doubt, the root of all speed and power in the swing! All pitchers use it, and baseball’s most productive hitters do, too. Do you teach it? If not, you’re not teaching the same movements that baseball’s elite hitters use! “Mike Epstein on Hitting” fully explains it in a way that can be understood by everyone.
“Weathervaning” is the key! “Mike Epstein on Hitting” shows how hitters—by “matching the plane of the swing to the plane of the pitch”—get the best of all possible worlds: THE LONGEST CONTACT AREA and also the ability to get “back spin” on fly balls and “over spin” on ground balls. A perfect world, indeed! Epstein’s concept of “weathervaning” is sweeping the country and coaches need to understand its relative importance to the swing plane.
Staying “inside” the ball. A good reason why 10% of the hitters make 90% of the money!
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