Legendary high school baseball coach Mike Woods provides the tools you need to make the most of every at bat. This DVD features more than a 15 drills to refine your swing and put runs on the board.

Using tee drills and soft-toss drills, Woods gives in-depth explanations of the four key attributes of a good swing: balance, sequence, inside path and finish. Your players will learn how to generate bat speed by staying vertically stacked. They'll also learn how to get maximum drive and backspin on the ball.

Also included in this instructional DVD are drills to solve common hitting problems. Prevent lunging with Woods' tried-and-true methods. Teach hitters how to connect with a pitch more often and more explosively by utilizing their lower bodies and maintaining proper shoulder position.

Finally, Woods shares strategies for enhancing the mental toughness of prep athletes. Woods provides insights into planning your at-bats: What are your objectives when you're at the plate (getting on, moving runners, scoring runners), what is your approach to hitting with two strikes, what are the pitcher's tendencies and more.

Order today and you'll discover how to create or become a championship-level hitter.

48 minutes. 2011.

Coaching the High School Pitcherwith Mike Woods, Hamilton (AZ) HS Head Coach; 3x Arizona High School State Champs (2003,2004, 2008) and 3x State runner up (2011, 2009, 2005); over 300 career victories; 38 players have gone on to play in college (14 in D1) and 12 have played professionally

Nationally recognized high school coach Mike Woods shares his vast experience in this informative DVD designed to develop stronger, more accurate pitchers.

Woods, who has led his prep teams to three state championships in the highly aggressive Arizona system, begins with a series of five warm-up drills that will help pitchers loosen up while developing and maintaining proper form. This series will allow your pitchers to work on their mechanics, grips and motion while minimizing wear and tear on your their arms.

The warm-up routines are followed by a progressive series of seven drills that focus on delivery mechanics. This series will help athletes retain their center of gravity, stay over the back as long as possible and get their legs and lower bodies involved in pitch delivery. As a bonus, he gives two drills that work on proper rotation and the fundamentals of the curve ball.

Techniques and strategies for controlling the running game from the mound-including four options for picking off a runner at first base-are also included in this must-have DVD.

Learn how to develop young athletes from the wind-up to release utilizing the successful strategies of one of the nation's leading coaches. Order this great learning tool today!

52 minutes. 2011.

Catcher is the most neglected position in baseball practice. High school coaching great Mike Woods delivers a stand-out DVD that shows you how to enhance your catcher's performance by emphasizing fundamentals in three critical areas: throwing, receiving and blocking.

A perfect complement to his instructional DVDs for prep hitters and pitchers, this volume contains everyday drills to improve overall performance and quickness.

Throwing
Woods shares a progression of warm-up drills to develop arm strength, mechanics and balance. He demonstrates footwork techniques for clearing the hitter when throwing to third base. Perhaps most importantly, he shares drills designed to train catchers to catch and release the ball as quickly as possible saving valuable second on stolen base attempts and pick off throws.

Receiving
The #1 priority for the catcher is receiving the baseball and making the pitcher look good in the process. In this segment, Woods highlights two stances and soft-hand drills that reinforce the proper way to catch a baseball.

Blocking
In the blocking segment, he gives 10 drills to emphasize the correct position to block a pitch. In addition, the drills will train a solid-but-soft concept allowing your catchers to absorb the ball so it drops in front of them.

This DVD contains the tools you need to effectively train your catchers or to become a great catcher.

56 minutes. 2011.

Now you can perform the same hitting techniques, strategies and drills that Alex Rodriguez uses every day!

In this sensational DVD from Championship Productions, New York Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long reveals techniques and strategies for becoming a successful hitter.

Coach Long covers six keys to becoming a great hitter:

• Grip - Find the best grip to stay loose and increase bat speed.
• Stance - Stay flexible to maximize the power in the lower half of your body.
• Plate coverage - Use your best swing regardless of pitch location.
• Load - How to put yourself in a stronger hitting position for each swing.
• Knee drive - Learn how to level your swing and generate power.
• Hip torque - Increase your bat speed using your hips.

Watch as Coach Long takes A-Rod through a batting workout to fine tune hitting mechanics with soft toss and tee drills using a short and regular bat. These drills focus on balance and staying tight to your core to get your bat through the hitting zone quicker.

In addition, Long and A-Rod sit down and discuss the key techniques from a hitter's perspective. This section includes strategies to develop the best swing possible; scouting the opposing pitcher; guessing on pitches; batting practice for success; and off-season work.

What makes this DVD unique is that you can see how these drills are used at the Major League level and how they can be adjusted to work at any level: youth, high school, collegiate and professional.

Long goes through a number of errors that are common among younger hitters - and how you can correct them. Among the problem areas covered are: Stride in - where the batter's hips won't get through the swing; Stride Open - which mostly occurs left handed batters; flexed front side; turning in - creates long bat path; and leaning forward.

Long closes with a Coach's Q&A session. He covers a number of topics including: Absolutes of hitting, strategies for left- vs right-hand pitchers, scouting reports, two-strike approach, hitting when you're ahead in the count, identifying pitches, getting over the fear of being hit by a pitch, and more.

This is the workout that helped A-Rod to one of his best statistical seasons as a pro in 2007. Get help with your swing from one of the top hitting instructors in the world!

106 minutes. 2010.

No space? No problem! If you are like most baseball coaches and parents, you struggle to fill your non-practice time with fundamental drills that will bring out the best in your ball player. Minor League Manager of the Year Matt Walbeck demonstrates more than 20 baseball drills that can be performed with minimal space, indoors or outdoors, to help your young athletes become better baseball players.

Agility Drills - These ladder drills will improve your first-step quickness and agility for attacking the baseball in the field or taking an extra base on the base paths.

Pitching Exercises & Drills - Former major league pitcher Jason Sekany takes you through key pitching drills that will develop proper pitching mechanics. He breaks down five key components to remember while instructing a youngster, bringing each drill back to these five components. These drills will allow your athlete to find his set-up position, stay balanced, develop a proper stride and body sequence. He also teaches techniques to develop quick, accurate throws for pick-off plays.

Catching Drills - Discover the key techniques to blocking balls in the dirt, making a quick ball exchange and throwing to the bases. Walbeck includes drills to develop stance, receiving technique, footwork, and proper tagging technique.

Hitting Drills - Use Walbeck's simplified "square to the path" technique for hitting the ball pure and true. Learn to change your swing path based on the location of the ball around the plate using tee drills, soft toss drills and more. Also get tips and drills for developing hand-eye coordination, hand speed and proper weight shift fundamentals. These drills can be performed in a batting cage or in a garage using a hitting net.

Infield Drills - Learn infield you can do in confined spaces to improve fielding fundamentals, hand eye coordination and reaction time.

The drills are demonstrated by athletes ranging in age from 9-17.

This video will show you that even with limited space and time, if proper fundamentals are taught to young players, they will grow to be great athletes and prosper as a baseball or softball player.

78 minutes. 2011.

Coaches Ray Tanner and Monte Lee give a detailed account on the hitting techniques needed to hit the ball hard and often. The tape begins with Coach Tanner discussing the important points concerning bat selection, grip, position in the box and stance. Coach Lee discusses and demonstrates five keys to hitting in-depth: focus, developing rhythm, separation, weight transfer, and staying square. Areas discussed include broad and narrow focus, proper loading and striding, and the four keys points on the body that should be striding to the pitcher. Tanner concludes the tape by discussing common faults (and how to correct the faults) in hitting such as: Lunging, wrapping the bat and not keeping your shoulders square. This is an excellent tape to insure that you are hitting the baseball hard and often!

37 minutes. 2002. (re-released on DVD in 2010).

Mark Calvi teaches techniques to keep your catchers playing solid defense.

This instructional baseball DVD set features Coach Calvi's in-depth catching analysis from two previously released videos - The Catcher's Big Three: Receiving, Blocking, and Throwing and All-Star Defense for Catchers - now available in this 2-disc set.

In Disc 1, Coach Calvi demonstrates the basics of strike zone management and defensive fundamentals that every catcher needs to know. Calvi demonstrates the primary and secondary stances and the proper time to use each. You'll learn how to give signals, proper glove placement, how to expand the strike zone, how to frame pitches, and how to catch different types of pitchers. Coach Calvi will help you keep pressure on baserunners by revealing his four keys to throwing to bases and the proper technique to block any pitch!

On disc 2, Calvi takes you step-by-step through the most common situations catchers face: fielding bunts, catching pop flies, plays at the plate, intentional walks, pitchouts, backing up first base, and fielding wild pitches. Coach Calvi shows the techniques of fielding four types of bunts and how to catch pop flies around home plate. He demonstrates how to cover three types of plays at the plate: tags, forces, and late throws from bobbled balls. You'll also learn how to execute intentional walks and pitchouts. If a ball does get past your catcher, Calvi highlights techniques to make a quick recovery

This is a great video for any catcher!

80 minutes. Produced in 2002 - re-released on DVD in 2010.