Oklahoma City · Private instruction
Hitting lessons in Oklahoma City
One-on-one batting instruction built around your player's body and their swing — not a template copied off somebody else's video. Baseball and fastpitch softball.
The approach
There is no one correct swing
Watch nine hitters in a big-league lineup and you'll see nine different swings. What they share isn't a position — it's a set of things that happen in the right order at the right time. Balance. A move that gets them on time. A path that stays in the zone long enough to be forgiving.
So I don't start by changing anything. I start by watching, and by asking the player what they're trying to do. Most young hitters have never been asked. Once I understand the swing they actually have, we find the two or three changes that will do the most for them.
Two or three. Not twelve. A player who's thinking about twelve things can't hit a fastball.
What we work on
Mechanics, timing, and the decision
Hitting a baseball is three problems stacked on top of each other: can you move well, can you be on time, and can you pick the right pitch to swing at.
Setup & balance
Stance, grip, and where the weight sits. Boring, and the foundation for everything else — a hitter who starts out of balance is fighting themselves before the pitch is thrown.
The move
Load, stride, and how the lower half starts the swing. Where most young hitters leak power they already have, without needing to get any stronger.
Bat path
Getting the barrel into the zone early and keeping it there. Not "swing down," not "swing up" — matching the plane of the pitch so mistakes still find the barrel.
Timing
The most underrated skill in hitting. A mechanically clean swing that's late is still an out. We train getting on time against real speeds and real movement.
Approach & pitch selection
What to look for, what to lay off, and how the count changes both. Good young hitters get out on pitches they should never have swung at.
Two-strike hitting
Shortening up, fighting off tough pitches, and refusing to give away at-bats. A skill that separates players fast, and one almost nobody practices on purpose.
The cage-to-game gap
"He rakes in practice and does nothing in games"
I hear this more than anything else, and it's almost never a mechanics problem. A cage swing has no timing pressure, no fear of failure, and no consequence. A game at-bat has all three.
Closing that gap takes two things. Training timing against live movement rather than a machine set to one speed. And working on the part between the ears — what a hitter is thinking about in the box, and what happens after they fail.
- A repeatable pre-pitch routine so every at-bat starts the same way.
- One thought in the box — not a mechanical checklist.
- Resetting after a bad at-bat instead of carrying it into the next one.
- Competing with two strikes rather than assuming the at-bat is over.
- Judging a swing, not a result. Hard outs are good process. Bloop hits are not.
Questions
Hitting questions parents ask
Will you rebuild my player's swing?
Only if it needs it, and rarely all at once. Most swings need two or three adjustments, not a teardown. A full rebuild mid-season is usually the wrong call — we work around the calendar.
Do you use video?
Yes, for players I'm working with regularly. Seeing their own swing is often the fastest way to make something click, because what a swing feels like and what it looks like are rarely the same thing. I use it as an ongoing coaching tool rather than a one-off assessment, so it comes in once we're working together.
My player crushes it in the cage and does nothing in games. Why?
The most common thing I hear, and it's almost never mechanics. Cage swings have no timing pressure, no fear of failure and no consequence. Fixing it means training timing against live movement, plus real work on the mental side.
How often should we meet?
Once a week is the most common rhythm during the season. What actually drives progress is the practice between sessions — I'd rather see a player every other week with real work in between than weekly with none.
Do you work with fastpitch softball players?
Yes. I work with fastpitch softball hitters as well as baseball players. The swing isn't identical, but the principles — balance, sequencing, bat path, timing and approach — carry across, and fastpitch hitters are often coached even less carefully than baseball players are.
Let's talk about your player
Tell me a little about them — age, position, and what you're hoping to work on. I'll get back to you personally, usually within a day.
Lessons start at $75 an hour.