Why the InfiniTee

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Why the Infini-Tee

• Weight shift and application of the momentum
  after the stretch and fire mechanics are in place
• The stage 2 tee to learn to take the pitchers
  pitch away.
• Teach low ball power mechanics and to practice
  the difficult pitch locations
• Eliminate the standard batting tee that causes
  top hand roll over

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Infini-TEE(Click on picture to see movie)
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The Infini-TEE - The low ball diagonal plane
tee.
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The Infini-TEE
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Loading the weight into back hip as the front
heel releases
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Barrel outside helmet as the hips coil and start
to carry the weight forward on the stride
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The barrel returns to plane just before the front
foot blocks
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The Infini-TEE. The barrel is returning to plane
and in this case the diagonal plane of the low
ball location.
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Driving the Low Ball on the Diagonal Swing Plane
requires taking the hinge angle forward ahead of
the ball and hitting the inside seam
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Reverse Pivot.. heel swivels behind starting line
on floor..Poor weight shift
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Anti- Squish Drill

• Players that fail to shift weight have their back
  heel pivot backwards and stay flat to the ground
  during the swing. The heel will end up closer to
  the catcher after the swing is completed.
• The drill creates instant feedback to bug
  squishing.
• We place a batting helmet behind the players
  foot.
• If he rotates his hips with no weight transfer
  then the spinning heel will knock the helmet
  backwards.
• With proper weight shift the rear heel is never
  closer to the catcher after the swing.

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Inside Seam Drill with the Infini-TEE. The inside
seam is the batters aiming point . Attempts to
hit the inside seam aid in rear elbow slotting
and usually result in the ball contacted in the
center
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Inside Seam Drill- Keeping the feet lined up back
to the throwing arm makes the player load against
the proper line of direction. Approaching the
ball to the inside seam forces the rear elbow to
stay against the rear hip and makes the lead arm
the connected arm to the core rotation. Aiming
at the inside seam with the shoulders rotating
down through the ball yield incredible power not
attainable on standard tees.
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The Hinge Angle

• The angle created between the bat and the lead
  forearm is called the hinge angle.
• The most common swing flaw in youth hitters is
  failure to form and maintain the hinge angle to
  front foot plant
• Taking the the hinge angle near the lead pocket
  with the bat in the lag position creates power
• Moving the hinge angle such that it is maintained
  and released out front is a great weight shift cue

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Weight shift helps to get inside the ball. It is
difficult to get inside the ball without proper
weight shift. The downward gaze at the back of
the balls gives the batter the sense of going
down to the ball in the diagonal plane and
leading the hands in front of the ball location.
Line drives are hit well in this low ball
position
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The batter is releasing the hinge angle on inside
seam. The tee will tilt forward to work on
getting off the back side for hitting balls down
and behind runners or the tee will tilt back if
you want to release the barrel on the up side for
long ball trajectory
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Maintaining the hinge angle and shaft to shoulder
position. Working on the pitchers pitch
location a couple of balls out of center and
down. Driving that ball back through box or right
of pitcher
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Bug Squishing is Spinning with no weight
transfer. Watch the foot in relationship to the
red line
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Heel swivels behind the starting line when you
bug squish and fail to shift weight and release
the back side
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Drills

• Walk up drill
• The walk up drill helps players that cannot get
  off their back side and tend to stay back there
  and spin or squish the bug.
• The goal is to feel the flow of weight from back
  to front and to be able to block the push and
  convert it to rotary power.
• In performing this drill, the batter can take a
  step behind his body with the back foot , then a
  step forward toward the tee and hit the ball off
  the tee.
• The first step BEHIND is important as it help the
  batter coil the back hip inward , and lower the
  lead shoulder.
• We also tip the barrel opposite field gap to get
  more segmentation of the body and assign an
  aim point for the inside seam.
• Drill can be seen at www.hittingillustrated.com

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Product Summary

• Anybody hitting poorly is likely to suffer from
  one or more of these three maladies
• The tools for the cure are
• The Hands Back Hitter- rotary power
• The StayBack Tee proper weight shift for
  lungers
• The Infini-TEE- proper weight shift through
  better low ball mechanics

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Additional Sites recommendations

• www.hittingillustrated.com
• www.batspeed.com Jack Mankin.
• www.swingbuster.com Dr. Donny Buster
• www.baseballscience.com Dr. Chris Yeager
• www.mikeepsteinhitting.com Former MLB player and
  hitting instructor Mike Epstein. Coaching
  Certification available