Power Bat Drill

The power bat drill is designed to develop power by hitting an object heavier than a baseball. This is a great drill because if you focus on using proper technique, it can really add some power to your swing. How it works is you take a plunger and put it inside of your tee. Then you put a soccer ball on top of the plunger (make sure the plunger is clean). The next step of course is to hit the soccer ball off on the tee plunger into a net. At first it will be hard to get a crisp swing through the soccer ball. Your bat will kind of bounce off of the ball. Only until you have built up enough strength can you hit through the ball is if it were a baseball. Keeping working on this and you will see a big difference in the power when you connect with a baseball. Just remember that power is about your bat speed at the time of impact. So when you are doing this drill, don’t try to muscle up through the soccer ball, actually swing at it as if it were a baseball. The strength will come.