In this youth baseball coaching course Iowa Western Head Coach Marc Rardin shares more than 20 drills
designed to teach the fundamentals of a good swing. Coach
Rardin's three keys to good hitting are balance, timing and direction.
His presentation includes multiple skill progressions that integrate
hitting off a tee and soft toss.
Coach Rardin emphasizes hitting the
ball with your hands, not the barrel of the bat. If the hands are in the
correct position, the barrel will follow!In the "Two-Two-Two
Drill," players eased into correct swing fundamentals by progressing
through phases that train them to hit the ball with their weight on
their front foot. Players begin with two repetitions of the "Back Knee
Through Tee Drill" and then use the same technique with two soft tosses
and finally the regular swing with two soft tosses. Transferring energy
from the back foot to the front foot in the swing makes the hitter more
powerful and consistent.
Though these drills
were developed for youth players, they can also be used at the
collegiate level to improve performance in more accomplished athletes,
as proven by Iowa Western's 2014 NJCAA National Championship. Let Coach Rardin help you train your youth hitters and assist them in building a reliable swing that puts more balls in play.
1 | Intro 01:51 |
2 | Choppers 01:50 |
3 | Working with a Tee 03:43 |
4 | Tee Middle 04:41 |
5 | Soft Toss Away 05:41 |
6 | Tee Extension 04:53 |
7 | Soft Toss Extension 02:16 |
8 | Walk Through 02:33 |
9 | Soft Toss Walk Through 02:43 |
10 | Top Hand Bottom Hand 03:18 |
11 | One One One 01:21 |
12 | Elevated 03:10 |
13 | Back Knee Through Tee 04:38 |
14 | Two Two Two 01:39 |
15 | Hover 04:59 |
16 | Juggle 01:42 |
17 | Two Ball Drill 03:44 |
18 | Two Tee Drill 02:49 |
19 | Fungo 03:32 |
20 | Heels Down 06:21 |
21 | Pull Hands Through 05:20 |
22 | Conclusion 01:32 |
Marc Rardin
Head Coach of Iowa Reivers Baseball
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During Marc Rardins 13 seasons as the Head Baseball Coach at Iowa
Western Community College, his teams have rewritten the record books in
every facet of the program and made junior college baseball history by
winning the Junior College World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014. Rardin's
Reivers are the first Northern District representative to ever win the
Junior College World Series title. All in all, in 13 seasons at Iowa
Western Rardin’s Reivers have participated in 9 Junior College World
Series, and have won 11 consecutive Regional Titles, and 9 Northern
District Titles. That’s a total of 23 Post Season Titles, more than any
other Division I junior college program in the country in the past 13
years alone.
Rardin has also been recognized by the National
Junior College Athletic Association and the Baseball Coaches Association
and has twice (2008 & 2010) been assistant coach on the NJCAA USA
National Teams. This past summer Coach Rardin was the Head Coach of the
USA Junior College Team that participated in the 80th year of the NBC
Tournament in Wichita, KS. After being together as a team for only
21days the NJCAA team finished the tournament with a 3rd Place finish.
In June, Coach Rardin also has been invited to Cary, North Carolina and
the official training base for USA Baseball Organization. Rardin has
twice (2014,15) managed one of the teams and helped with organization,
practices and evaluations with the ages 18 & under tryouts for
Tournament of Stars.
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