There is a difference between style and form. So often we see young pitchers trying to emulate the style they have seen with pitchers they admire. Style and form are two very different things. Form, or mechanics, is the part of the pitch which directly affects outcome.
The best ideas have yet to be discovered. We encourage our students to take chances and try new things. Last week one of my 10-year-old students, who has a goal of becoming one of our Instructors one day, sent me a video of a new drill she created to get her lower body moving more …
We often see new kids wearing ankle or knee braces. When they show up in a brace, we stop the lesson and ask questions.
Here are two ways you can change your game today. 1-Take responsibility for your failures. 2-Fix it now. On the surface these seem far too simplistic. However, consider the society in which we live today. We have moved into an age of “enabling”. No matter what the behavior, there are excuses.
It is that time of year when families consider travel teams for the upcoming year, so we thought it may help to give you guidelines to make the choice easier. There are exceptions to all of these rules, so do not read too much into any specific item. Although much of this article applies to …
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Being a pitcher’s parent is hard work! First to arrive. Last to leave. Twice as many practices. The reward: bruised shins and swollen hands. And of course, and that big smile and sweaty little hug when it all comes together! We all want our kids to have more than we did. We struggle to give …
Often a very successful former college pitcher will decide she wants to give back to the kids by becoming an Instructor. Hmmm, where does she start? There are a million questions. We hope she will contact us. This career is far too important to learn through failures.
Over and over and over and over again, we meet new students who simply did not listen to their own bodies, and allowed someone to tell them to do things in a way that is completely unnatural. They started out strong, but it faded as their bodies developed. As a result they are no longer …
Your travel team turned out to be a disaster. The coaches play favorites, it is political, there is little teamwork, there are cliques, and practices are counter-productive. Whose fault is that? Well, honestly, it is your own fault.
We can say things out loud that colleges have to keep quiet. Because we have dozens of kids recruited every single year, we talk to a lot of college coaches. It used to be they spent the entire time talking about the kid. Now, one of the first things they ask is, “Tell me about …
I first came to know Elise a few years ago. She and her father considered coming east, from Nebraska, to work with me. Her father felt she could benefit from our training, but our schedules didn’t mesh well, so I agreed to try something unusual.
With Father’s Day approaching, Alex MacLean, Certified Instructor, shares a very personal story from which we all can learn. This one touched us in a special way. As she anticipates the coming holiday, we will let Alex take it from here:
This week, we present an inspiring story written by the mother of one of our pitchers in response to last week’s Weekly Blog on our website. Leslie Lenderman addressed it to me, but I share it with you—- When Haley came to you it was 4 days before her summer club tournaments started. She had …
When is a good time to make a change? We hear that question all of the time. When should we set aside time to make changes? My father-in-law likes to say, the best time to plant a fruit tree is ten years ago. The second-best time is right now. The sooner you plant, the sooner …
When you gain a reputation for helping injured kids return to the game, people bring you a lot of interesting issues. For instance, we see Pars stress fractures in the lower back of new pitchers way, way too much. We have fixed a bunch of these. There is absolutely no excuse for a kid getting …
