If you cant teach swinging down and through the ball using the Muhl Tech Tee, you need to stop teaching hitting. It is the greatest tee on the market today. Stop talking level swing because if your player is swinging the bat correctly, he/she will never swing level.
Aug 20, 2010 Rating
Great product feedback Mike! by: Joey from SwingSmarter.com
I like your line of thinking and another fellow Down & Through hitting coach...I like your style ;) If this helped your daughter's uppercut, then it sounds like it can help other young hitters with the same swing issue.
Now, to help keep her hands inside the ball...I think keeping her short to the ball is the best way to do that. Keeping the knob down to the incoming baseball and making the top hand work to keep the barrel up until 1-3 inches before contact, which should be out in front of the stride foot, will keep her nice and compact like a Chase Utley.
Hope this helps AND many thanks for the review of THE Review :P
Aug 19, 2010 Rating
Muhl Tee review by: Mike hebert
I would like to comment on the Muhl Tee. I think it is a very useful tool in teaching hitting, along with many other drills and tools. As a teacher of hitting I found that the number one way to cure an upper cut in a young hitter is to force them to hit off the Muhl Tee.
I do not use the arm/antenae that sticks up from the tee. It comes right off. I use the elbow shape of the tee to show kids who are not level that they are upper cutting.
When giving hitting lessons and you see an uppercut, sometimes it is not enough to explain that the youth has an uppercut but to show him/her.
Case in point.. My daughter played in a World Cup and the Japanese figured her out quick. Their catcher did not even get down. Stood up behind the plate (old school) and they finished her off right quick.
I then forced her to hit off the Muhl Tee. She hated it. Then a wonderful thing happened. She adapted her swing to a down thru the ball and then finish high. (Or on the high strike to be level and drive the ball. Thus being long thru the strike zone and level at contact.
We continuously preach hitting the ball with backspin. It is easy to hit the ball with backspin off the Muhl Tee, if your swing is right. I use other methods to keep inside the ball, but maybe in the future I will use this tee to work on staying inside the ball.
If you have a traditional tee, a Muhl Tee and a low tee - then utilize soft toss to teach/probe for flaws in the swing, you will be all set. MIKE HEBERT
