Physical Education and Batting Skills

Batting
This new year will start with students involvement in hand
and eye coordination. A favorite thing for the students to
participate in is batting.
Batting allows students to work on striking skills and
requires the deveopment of hand and eye coordination,
timing, body positioning, spacial awareness and tracking.

1. Eye and Hand Coordination
is required by watching the ball sitting on a stationary
cone or batting tee. The students must swing correctly
to hit the ball with the bat.
Not as easy as it sounds.
2.Timing
this requires the student to hit the ball not just with
power, but to time during the swing rotation when to hit
the ball. This skill transfers over to when the ball is
physically pitched to the student.
3. Body Position
is important for proper transfer of weight during the
swing and contact with the ball. Proper body position
can allow for weight transfer which makes for increased
power and distance with hitting the ball.
wrong body position can create injuries to back, arms
and shoulders from being off balance, bad stance and
incorrect head position.
4 Spacial Awareness
sa is important because students need to be sure of
their surrondings, how their body position will direct
ball flight and where the ball is in relation to the
ball when swinging.
5. Tracking
tracking means keeping the students "eyes" on the
ball before, during and after contact.

Students will continue working on batting then
transition to kicking skills.