Pick up your bat right now and get into your normal batting stance.
Once you become comfortable with this simple technique and it’s timing you will see a dramatic improvement in the power you generate with the bat.
In Okinawa Shorei-Ryu martial arts all power punches are thrown beginning at the hips.
The more the hip is turned, the more power the punch generates.
If you take the time to practice this you will see a marked difference in the power you generate with the bat in a short period of time.
Let’s take a look at another mental technique that can help you improve your hitting power… Generate Power With The “Imaginary Tree Roots” Technique.
Okinawa Shorei-Ryu teaches us how to mentally “draw” power up from the ground and utilize it physically.
We mentally draw massive power from the ground and this generates more physical force into our hand strikes.
Now when you begin your bat swing picture in your mind the massive power you are drawing up from the ground through these roots.
This power is coming out of the ground, into your body, up through your arms and hands, and out into the bat.
Without good balance you cannot generate any true power.
‘ Most batters are tense and rigid when standing in the batter’s box.
When you’re tense and rigid you cannot “transfer” and “release” your true power into the bat.
When you’re relaxed up to this “explosive burst” you “release” all your power at the precise time of it’s total intensity.
Your true power is transferred into the ball through the bat and a focused concentration of energy and power is produced.
It’s a matter of timing the tension of the muscles with the exhalation of your breath at the precise moment you touch the ball with your bat.
For the first time in your life you begin to think of relaxing at the plate and “explosive bursts,” and “releasing” your power, and “focused energy.
” You’re no longer tense and rigid with your power “locked” inside you.
In one week I had swung my bat at least 1,750 times.
In one month I had swung my bat over 7,000 times more than the rest of the players on my team.
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