Video Library
Youth Baseball Hitting Drills and Training Videos
22 baseball videos from Chris, grouped by what is being taught.
Hitting
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Too Strong, Too Weak, Or In Control: A Line Drive Drill To Run With Your Player
A drill Chris calls too strong, too weak, or in control, for the player stuck hitting the same weak floater to the pitcher or shortstop. It is interactive and meant to be run with a parent, and it teaches barrel control by making the hitter feel the difference between overpowering the ball and getting through it.
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2 Tee Drills For More Line Drives And Fewer Ground Balls
Two tee drills for the gap between a clean tee swing and a live one. Chris starts from the hitter who lines everything up on a perfectly placed ball and breaks down the moment the pitch arrives early, inside or outside, then shows how to keep using a tee while working front toss.
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Why You're Hitting So Many Ground Balls (And How to Fix It)
For the player who is not striking out but whose contact is nearly all ground balls to the pull side. Chris names the two causes, coming up out of the swing or opening the front shoulder too early, and shows the fake toss drill that makes a hitter feel how weak it is to be out in front. Ends with the swing result to look for.
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Hitting Everything To The Right Side? How To Get Behind The Baseball
For the hitter putting almost everything to the right side and never quite driving the ball. Chris splits it into three parts: the issue, which is usually a back hip that never rotates and hands that stay out in front, the drill that fixes it, and the adjustment to carry into games. The most watched video on the channel.
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Water Bag In And Outs: A Two Minute Rotational Power Warm-Up
The in and out ladder pattern run with a water bag instead of a ladder, for rotational power and for getting into the legs before a hitting session. Chris shows the footwork first without the bag, then adds the load so the shifting water forces the body to stabilise. Under two and a half minutes.
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What “Coil Into Your Back Hip” Actually Means, And A Tee Routine For It
What coil into your back hip actually means, for the player who has heard it from parents, coaches and strangers online without anyone explaining the purpose. Chris ties it to staying in the back leg, the strongest muscle group a hitter has, and gives a full tee routine for getting there. Eight minutes and the most watched of his tee routines.
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Stop At Contact Drill: Wrist Strength And A Direct Path, No Ball Needed
A stop at contact drill run with no baseball at all, for wrist strength, barrel control and direction into the contact point. Chris aims it at younger hitters who get around the ball or pull the barrel up too soon, and explains why taking the ball away makes the fault easier to feel.
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Half Swing Drill For Barrel Control And Extension Through Contact
The half swing drill for barrel control, taught through two images: a sliding door that cannot come off its track, and a frisbee throw where the hand has to extend forward after the hips have gone. Chris uses the batter's box lines on the hitting mat as the reference for keeping the hands in front of the body through contact.
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Off-Season Hitting Priority: Staying In The Zone Longer For More Contact
Staying in the hitting zone longer, which Chris argues is behind the large majority of balls that get mis-hit or missed altogether. He covers getting into and out of the zone too quickly, the tell you can see off the tee, and the two-ball cue that turns a narrow contact point into a window. Recorded as spring season preparation.
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Great Off The Tee, Lost In Games: How To Control Your Stride
Why a swing that looks clean off the tee falls apart in front toss and in games, and how stride length is usually the reason. Chris shows the short step that works against a stationary ball and stops working the moment the ball moves, then builds a stride a hitter can repeat in any environment.
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Flamingo Drill For Hitters Who Overstride Or Lunge At The Ball
A flamingo drill run with a weightless toe touch, built for hitters who overstride, push toward the ball, or reach out and stop using their body. Taking the weight off the front side forces the player to stay back and time the pitch rather than lunge at it.
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Step Back Drill: Why A Straight Back Leg Kills A Hitter's Power
The step back drill, for hitters whose back leg straightens during the swing and loses all of its push. Chris compares a straight back leg to trying to jump without bending your knees, then works through storing energy in the backside and releasing it through the baseball.
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Separation Drill: Getting A Young Hitter's Upper And Lower Half In Sequence
A separation drill for young hitters whose upper half and lower half fire together instead of in sequence. Chris shows the load where the legs go back but the hands never separate, and a way to feel the two halves working apart that is simple enough for a player still building balance in the stance.
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Where To Stand At The Tee: The Setup Most Young Hitters Skip
Where a hitter stands relative to the tee, and why setting up off home plate instead of off the contact point puts the swing wrong before it starts. Chris opens the foundational series with the setup video most players assume they can skip, then reframes the tee as a tool for finding a contact point rather than a place to hit the ball hard. Eleven minutes, the longest in the series.
Mindset and Development
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How Often Should Young Baseball Players Practice?
Chris's answer to how often a young player should practice, which is roughly five days a week, and his case that one hour of lessons cannot carry a player on its own. He tells the story of the eight year old who transformed in two weeks on nothing but five or ten minutes off the tee after school, and explains why a two hour team practice is not the same thing.
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What Builds A Confident Baseball Player: Start With The 1 To 10 Question
The scale of one to ten question Chris asks in lessons: stepping in right now, how confident are you that you make contact? He explains what an answer of four does to a swing, why confidence gets built in reps nobody sees rather than handed over by a coach, and sets a weekly challenge to do one uncomfortable thing.
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How To Help Youth Baseball Players BUILD More Confidence (Communication, Self Doubt, and MORE)
A full conversation between Chris Winters and Dr. Alyssa Giles on building confident players, covering communication, self doubt, how to talk to a kid after a bad game, and judging process over results. Twenty-seven minutes written for parents and coaches rather than players. Includes the rule that your first words after a loss should be connection, not analysis.
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The Mental Edge: A Mindset Course For Youth Baseball Players
The opening of the Mental Edge course, where Chris makes clear that nothing in it touches swing, pop time or bat speed. The subject is the mind that controls all three. He separates the player who is there to get by from the player trying to make a new team, and aims the course squarely at the second one.
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Inside LevelX #1: Building A Youth Baseball Development Program Online
The first Inside LevelX episode, in which Chris Winters opens up how the business is actually being built. He walks through what is currently live inside the community, what player development looks like when it moves online, and where he expects that to be difficult. Less coaching, more transparency about the company behind it.
Catching
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One Move To Improve A Catcher's Pop Time, No Gear Needed
One movement that shortens a catcher's pop time, demonstrated with no ball, no glove and no gear on. Chris borrows the falling start from speed training, where the first stride happens the moment you feel yourself drop, and applies it to coming out of the crouch. Can be worked on indoors.
Player Results
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From 56 MPH to 60.4 MPH Exit Velocity in 4 Weeks
An eight second clip of one player's exit velocity moving from 56 to 60.4 miles per hour over four weeks of work. Posted as a measured result rather than as instruction, with the before and after numbers on screen.
More from LevelX
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Setting Up A PowerNet Practice Net Without Reading The Instructions
Chris unboxing and assembling a new practice net on camera without reading the instructions, timing himself against a three minute guess. Filmed ahead of summer outdoor sessions and a possible fielding camp. Not instruction, just the net going up in real time.