Baseball Skills: Momentum and Direction
Video Podcast with Russ McNickle
, Assistant Baseball Coach
Mississippi State University
Making a great play is only part of what a great baseball player does. Hiss coach should be prepared to help him learn how to transfer the baseball to his throwing hand and use his body to develop the momentum to get the ball where it needs to be.
Baseball Skills: Throwing Footwork - Baseball players have to catch a baseball and throw a baseball where it needs to go. The feet are an important part of each and every throw!
Baseball Skills: The Transfer - The transfer needs to happen above the belt. Coach McNickle demonstrates the transfer and hammers momentum and direction to execute a great baseball transfer.
Baseball Skills: Momentum - Learn how to develop momentum to achieve the speed and accuracy to catch the baseball and throw to the target.