How to Grip a Softball Bat with Michele Smith

Hi, I'm Michele Smith. I want to talk a little bit about the proper grip. A lot of times we find athletes hold the bat too far back in the palm of the hand. And when you do that it inhibits or decreases your ability to be quick and to have a nice quick swing. So how do we properly want to hold the bat? We want to make sure that the bat is in the fingers and what we do is we like to think about lining up our knocking knuckles. These would be the knuckles that you would knock on a door with. So if your knocking knuckles are lined up it's gonna ensure that the bat is properly held in your fingers. So this grip is gonna give you ... Read More of this video transcriptthe smoothest, quickest swing to contact the quick smooth swing is going to give you the most pop of the ball off the bat.