Hitting Baseballs Consistently Well & Avoiding Slumps Requires the Right Mental Approach...

The mental approach to hitting baseballs well can be quite an uphill battle, but rest assured it's something if we learn to do early, then we'll perform better than 99% of the competition.

There's lot of white noise out there on the net about the mental approach and mental toughness training, and sifting through it can be such a daunting task. Since the Swing Smarter site mainly caters to the drills, skills, and to separate the good from the bad in hitting aids, we wanted to include an eZine (online magazine) to detail the How To...of the mental aspect of hitting.

We'll be drawing from a premium selection of resources that are the best in the game both online and offline...golden kernels of knowledge flowing from some of the greatest past and present minds of the game. Oh yeah, we'll also add our own personal touch drawing from over 24 years of baseball experience playing at the Division 1 college level, coaching, and mentoring.

Since hitting begins in the dugout, we're calling the e-zine, creatively, The Dugout. As you may already know, in the Science Of Hitting, Ted Williams was quoted as saying, "50% of great hitting is proper thinking." Who would know better than one of the greatest hitters of all time, right? So, we've so cleverly USP'ed, you know like Nike's 'Just Do It', The Dugout eZine, "Hitting Baseballs from the Neck Up."

Unfortunately, hitting baseballs all over the yard like an Evan Longoria, Derek Jeter, or Albert Pujols will NOT be a reality for most, but we can make stronger the abilities we have, so we can unlock hidden potential, which would otherwise be "skipped over" without the right mental toughness conditioning.

The mental part of hitting is really about learning how to take the right mental reps, building routines into our game, and discovering how to anticipate pitches early on, so as the game speeds up, we'll be ready. You get these secrets plus much more with The Dugout!

Some of the many meaty "Hitting Baseballs from the Neck Up" topics to look forward to in future issues are:

• How to use mental rehearsal to get quality swings in, even when you can't physically (i.e. because of injury, weather, etc.),
• Engaging relaxation techniques to build nerves of steel,
• Creating short simple routines to take anywhere, keeping you focused to do battle with virtually any malevolent circumstance, and
• Developing mental toughness is by far the biggest issue coaches put numero uno on their action item list, and we'll hit that too!

We have a lot of useful information to share with you in this monthly online magazine, and we know you are busy, so we'll focus on one, maybe two, progressive ideas each issue.

Joining is also a great way to keep a finger on the SwingSmarter.com pulse. We're also unrolling, in the coming year, some really hush-hush beta products such as DVD's, an eBook, our own hitting aid, and maybe an iPhone App, so the eZine is where we'll offer size-able discounts on these before they hit the mainstream market, so this is another reason to join and become one of our backstage cleat chasing groupies! :P You won't be disappointed.

Also, one note on eliminating hitting slumps altogether...

If people say they can do this, they're an outright liar, in baseball that's impossible because even the best cool off from time to time. But, what The Dugout "Hitting Baseballs from the Neck Up" does is help create a powerful mental approach, which will soften and shorten the severity of any dip in performance.

NEXT: The Dugout Issue #020
July Sneak Peek

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Thanks again for taking the time to read into and/or subscribe to The Dugout eZine "Hitting Baseballs from the Neck Up, rest assured the content is unsurpassed from any baseball hitting source out there...don't delay in staying up-to-date, please subscribe now, and leave the competition in the Stone Age!

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