hitting lessons how long/how often?

[FPdaddy]

Developing an elite swing takes a LONG time! How quickly one develops a high-level swing depends on lots of factors. Age, athletic ability, strength, hand-eye coordination, overcoming poor habits, how hard the player works at it, etc.

To me, a good indication of when you kid "gets it" is when the swing you see off the tee looks like the swing against good pitching. IOW, when facing good pitching, do the proper swing mechanics hold up OR do they revert back to the old hitting pattern? If the swing holds up...then you can back off of hitting lessons. JMHO

Keith

[DonnieS]

>> Developing an elite swing takes a LONG time! How quickly one develops a high-level swing depends on lots of factors <<

So true. I have one that is getting there and I have one who the only thing she can hit hard is her coach.

[Gone in 2.6]

How long do you take hitting lessons for and how often? 12U DD has been taking lessons for 2 months from a local instructor who is well regarded and seems to have done a good job with DD. She has missed a month due to injury and I have her scheduled to go back next week. Is there a point where we scale back and go every two weeks or every month?

After years of mixed results, I took over 18 Gold dd's hitting instruction around 12u. I did this by
standing on the shoulders of those that are smarter than me (Scott Ssarginson, Mark Hanson,
Larry Ray, Steve Englishbey, Mike Candrea, Karen Weekly among others) and checking anything we
are told against
slow motion video of the worlds best hitters. That "BS detector" has been invaluable.

[Judd]

so basically dont make any plans for that money spent on batting lessons anytime soon?

[coolstuff]

I wonder about this too because the hitting instructor we go to is available only on Sunday afternoons, so tournament weekends are usually out (we certainly hope to still be playing on Sunday!) and sometimes a family obligation interferes. DD has yet to have a lesson two weeks in a row. We missed last Sunday because of a family obligation, and we're on vacation next week which will knock out two more Sundays. I'm more worried about frequency.