How do you create backspin while hitting the baseball?

by Jason Green
(Aderdeen, MD)

Are you suppose to create back spin? Why do you want to create backspin? What benefits come from creating backspin?

Swing Smarter Response:
Jason, I'm so glad you asked that question; creating backspin on the baseball is the essence of Swing Smarter Baseball Hitting Drills.com. Our hitting style is very simple, we preach Down & Through when we hit.

Bringing the knob of the bat down to the incoming baseball, keeps a hitter short to the ball.

Taking the barrel of the bat, after contact, through 3 consecutive imaginary floating baseballs (placed one after the other with about an inch or two gap between them) keeps the bat long through the contact zone creating what's known as backspin.

Physics says when we put backspin on a batted baseball, a Magnus Force takes over, which is an invisible force pushing from underneath the baseball elevating it. Backspin allows the baseball to work for the hitter and NOT the other way around.

This article goes into more depth on how to execute the technique more thoroughly.

So, to answer your questions, yes you're suppose to create backspin if you want to be Swinging Smarter...hitters want to create backspin because they can increase the distance on their batted ball with minimal effort...AND, the benefits are more extra base hits, being feared by pitchers, and more attraction from the opposite sex;-)
Joey