Analysis Of Hitting Softball And Baseball

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to perceive the skills of hitting softball and baseball from a “one-dimension system”, which is based on the classification of the movement skills. This method uses descriptive qualitative with literature study. The results of the studies found that, the classification of hitting based on “size of primary musculature required” shows the use of large muscles based on the hitting phase. Based on the “specificity of where actions begin and end”, in hitting there are a start and end point of the mechanic. And the classification of motion skills based on the “stability of environment hit context”, is influenced by the moving environment where the ball that is thrown by the pitcher with a different location on each of its tosses, so that the pitcher's pitch cannot be predicted. Conclusion based on the “classification size of primary musculature required”, hitting is a gross motor skill, classification of specificity of where actions begin and end, hitting is discrete motor skills, and based on the stability of environment context, hitting is an open skill.