SEPARATION
Let's define separation to begin with. Separation is any distance of your hands away from your body as you rest and start your swing. We want to accomplish two things in our swing. The first is to make the distance from the start of the swing to contact as short as possible. The second is that we want our hands to stay inside the baseball.

I like to see my players have their hands resting somewhere right behind the chin area. This alleviates any separation from the head with the hands. It also allows me to see if the hands begin to cast or come away from the head. If they do, then I know that the bat will not travel in the quickest line to the baseball. Most kids have a tendency to separate their hands at the start and during their swing. If the hands start from the chin/head area and we take the knob of the bat to the ball, keeping our hands inside the baseball, we will be successful in creating a short, crisp swing through the zone.

Submitted by: CoachB