The Hitting Simulator [QUICK HIT]

Hi everyone, my name is Matt Aquilina with Nexus Baseball and this is Quick Hit, where I quickly cover your questions about hitting mechanics and technique.

Today I just want to explain how I train hitting year-round in the Canadian climate. Outdoors we have a full-length enclosed batting cage with turf, artificial pitcher’s mound, and a high power pitching machine but we can only use it seasonally. In the offseason I primarily focus on tee work so a smaller indoor space can be ideal. The hitting simulator is built from a golf simulator enclosure, including a 10’ wide by 10’ tall by 10’ deep shroud to keep balls from bouncing off the walls and to keep the projector bright. It has a premium impact screen that can take a golf ball going 200mph, so against baseballs, it doesn’t get damaged but will stretch more due to the increased force, so there is a foam backpad behind the simulator wall about a foot or so back. I installed the pad after the wall got pretty chewed up by weighted baseballs as I use it for pitching drills as well.

It is equipped with a high brightness projector that is hard to tell on video but it is actually very bright, about double the brightness of most projectors and is connected by a computer to show static backgrounds to visualize with. I grab the images from MLB the show primarily with the custom camera option to get the distances right so everything is proportional, which takes a bit of trial and error.

It is great though as you can visualize hitting in any MLB park against any pitcher. The projector can also be used to watch baseball as you do drills or workout as well which is great. There are two batter’s boxes on the floor, with taped out plates on the rubberized floor. Basically, the middle area represents the inside corner of each box as that is where you would be measuring your distances off anyway. You can set up the tee in any position you like relative to your normal batting stance. Because of the two plates it can be used right or left-handed in the relatively small space.

You can set the tee anywhere you like depending on what you are working on and the red notches on the screen edges are optimal home run angles depending on the height of the tee, from lowest to highest point. I will be doing demonstrations in the simulator in coming videos as well as I will be showing how it works for pitching drills as well. See you next time at Nexus Baseball!

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