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Training Drills

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Time to Contact Drill

Coach Rick Strickland provides insights on how to improve your Time to Contact using real-time feedback from the Blast Baseball app / sensor.

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Jump Turn – Broom

Coach Rick Strickland provides insights on how to improve with the Jump Turn drill using a broom.

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Towel Bat

Coach John Peabody talks about the Towel Bat drill and how it helps create bat speed and bat whip. The bat acceleration is measured by the Blast Baseball app / sensor in the Swing Speed metric.

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Jump-Turn Drill

Coach Rick Strickland provides insights on how to improve your power using the jump-turn drill and real-time feedback from the Blast Baseball app / sensor.

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Pro Tips

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Carlos Correa: Swing Speed

MLB player Carlos Correa explains the importance of swing speed.

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Energy Transfer

Coach Rick Strickland explains how body motion can impact a swing.

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Smart Video Capture

Coach Rick Strickland discusses the importance of using Smart Video Capture technology with your metrics to see the finer details of how your body is moving while you swing.

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Bat Selection

Coach Rick Strickland discusses the importance of using the right bat and how the Blast Baseball app and sensor can help you with your bat selection.

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Metrics

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What is Blast Factor?

Blast Factor is a holistic swing score between 0 and 100. Blast Factor is a weighted average of the other scored metrics with the following contribution: * On Plane: 15% * Peak Bat Speed: 10% * Attack Angle: 10% * Body Rotation: 15% * Power: 50% Blast Factor is a convenient measuring stick for tracking your overall improvement. It is also a fun way to compare your swing to professionals, other teammates, or friends.

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Why is Blast Factor important?

Ultimately, you want to increase your Power through proper sequencing without sacrificing control. Only a well-balanced hitter that has an efficient, connected swing can achieve a high Blast Factor score.

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What should Blast Factor be?

The typical Blast Factor score depends on age, strength, bat length and weight, experience level, swing style, and use case (practice swings vs game swings). Analysis from our database provides typical Blast Factor ranges for the following age groups and skill levels for baseball: * Professional MLB: 83 - 97 * Minor League MiLB: 77 - 93 * College: 71 - 89 * High School Varsity: 55 - 75 * High School Junior Varsity: 40 - 60 * Middle School: 30 - 50 * Youth: 20 - 40

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How do I improve Blast Factor?

Identify the metrics that are limiting your overall Blast Factor, and practice the drills associated with those underlying metrics.

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