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Interested in the hitting mechanics of the best hitters in the game?

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If so, you have come to the right website. We at Pure Power Hitting, have spent countless hours studying the swing of the best players in baseball and softball so that we can deliver the same results to our players that we train. Great hitters share five critical elements that make up the swing process; learning how to produce these elements can make all the difference in the world, and teaching is what we do best at Pure Power Hitting!!!!!!!!!!!

Teach your players what the best are already doing!!!!

Pure Power Hitting has been able to produce results because I study why one method works and another doesn't. I have and will continue to let conventional wisdom go by the wayside if scientific evidence provides a better solution. Often scientific research does not discover an astoundingly new breakthrough. Rather, laborious research hours are spent in biomechanical laboratories trying to define and understand known successes and provide rational processes to duplicate those actions in order to teach it to others.

Having said that, we are introducing something OLD. In baseball there are two types of hitting – rotational and linear. You may not be aware of these terms. Linear is thought to be the most popular, particularly in softball but also been widely taught in baseball. The linear style teaches you to swing down on the ball. Rotational hitting teaches you to match the plane of the ball with the plane of the swinging bat. For more info on the differences in the two, please visit the Rotational Vs. Linear tab above. Rotational is a technique that was used by the greatest hitter ever, Ted Williams. It became less popular in the 70's due to slick AstroTurf infields that encouraged hitting the ball on the ground and the popularity of the extremely light weight aluminum bats which provided the trampoline power that the hitting technique couldn't.

But -- when was the last time you played on an AstroTurf field? Bat specifications have dramatically changed as well. There is a reason why nowadays so many youth players struggle to perform on the 90' diamond, bad habits are formed with the lighter bats, then amplified on the larger field where a 200' shot is likely an out. 50 years ago wood bats were the only option, therefore less of a transition was needed to achieve similar results. You are now expected to transfer from ultra light -12 bat in little league to a -3 bat in high school.

As you watch professional hitters on TV with the new super slow motion replay cameras, please notice the path or plane of their swing – no matter where the ball is pitched. Better yet view our slow motion images of a variety of some of the best hitters in the game. From Home Run Derby winners, Bobby Abreu, Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Ryan Howard, Miguel Tejada, to in game clips of Alfonso Soriano, Ken Griffey Jr., Derek Lee, and Derek Jeter. See for yourself. Rotational hitting is about power, distance, and extra bases. It is the style of most professional hitters. They realized in order to get the results required to stay in the game they needed to go back to what worked for Williams, Mantle and now Bonds.

For the last several years I have been studying the work of, and am now Certified by, former Major League slugger Mike Epstein, a protégé and close friend of Ted Williams. Mike also played for Ted when he was the manager of the Washington Senators. Mike's method is very simple - match the plane of the swing to the plane of the ball -allow the hips to lead the hands - and truley stay inside the ball with maximum body power. Just remember, it has been said that "a pitcher's worst nightmare is when a player's bat is on the same plane as the pitcher's ball".

A player or parent needs to ask himself/herself a few Pain Questions

• Do you feel you are hitting the way you want?
• What have you done to try to fix your swing?
• Did it work for you?
• How much money have you spent to improve your hitting?
• How does that make you feel?
• Have you given up on your swing?

Pure Power Hitting would love to help you achieve your hitting goals!

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