Truly, they are the same. The hitter and pitcher movement is the same. It’s about a baseball player using the body to make a ball move. It’s back to front, front to arms. Back leg, to front leg… front leg, to arms. It’s loading into the backside only to explode forward.
I like the old guys. The third-contract pro’s. I’m a Dodger fan, so for me that’s Chase Utley reinventing himself year after year to continue to be valuable. Rich Hill pitching nearly into his 40’s. Clayton Kershaw adjusting to his “maturing” skill set with more sliders and less fastballs.
The ABCA convention is an awesome weekend. Let’s start with the first meeting I had on Thursday, the Ethics Committee. Each year, we select a winner for the Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award. It’s a really special meeting, and a room that I feel blessed to be inside of.
How can you find athletes that fit the desired mental make-up?
Traditionally, there are two ways we train baserunning during practice: 1. The Bases. 2. The Foul Line. Under the baseball dictionary definition of Connecting It, there’s a third entry
In our last Daily Dose, we talked about connecting our instruction. Working to ensure we are following a development plan, and then committing to a lifetime of teaching as we hold our athletes accountable in practices down the road.
I love this phrase for both athlete and coach. Confidence is such a “mental” term. It’s so intangible. Seemingly, some athletes have it and others don’t. Some kids are confident in their abilities, some kids have no clue how good they could be. While a psychologist I am not, I can say that confidently that there is one truth…
Working through Session #1 of the Online Coaching Clinic and pouring through my clinic notes. Years and years of clinic notes. There’s a phrase I mention at every one of my (recent) coaching clinics: Connect It.
Great coaches do BOTH. They are focused on athlete development… and they have fun while doing it.
I met a really impressive dude named Tanner Swanson. Not sure if he’d remember the discussion at all, but Tanner was just hired as the Yankees Catching Coordinator. He’ll float across all levels of the organization, in charge of building out a system to lead the organization into the future.
