April 19, 2018
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- Are you looking to increase practice performance or are you looking for skill transfer into the game?
- We want to replicate the game as much as possible and help our players to determine what movement works best for them given their body type, flexibility and mobility and perception of whats happening in their environment.
- If your in an environment where you aren’t learning, how do you expect to pass the test on game-day?
- Until you explain the why to players and coaches, it doesn’t matter what you’re trying to do.
- Create environments in practice where its ok to push yourself and to fail because that's where the learning happens
- We want optimization not just organization
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March 29, 2018
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At the end of every season when we look back, we never say "man i wish we had taken one more round of BP" But I have said "If we could have reached one or two more young men, that would have made the difference.
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March 22, 2018
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- There's a difference between kids who play baseball and baseball players
- More than anything we believe in individuals. We believe that the only thing you can do wrong as a coach/trainer is to make everyone do the same thing. We need to figure out what the players need and not just what it is that we want to teach them.
- If we make it more about our players and less about our programs, were going to get more out of them as individuals and as a results were going to win more games.
- There's 5 guys on every team that if they think “swing up” they’re going to have a bad season. There's also 5 guys that if they think “swing down” they’re going to have a bad season. We’ve gotta figure out what each guys needs Its not about the best “cue” its about getting the best results.
- I grew the most in my career when I stopped looking for what everyone did the same and started looking for what they did different.
- Players will not always say what you say but they will do what you do. If you aren’t their first example in life on who you would want them to be, then you need to do some things differently. You have a huge impact on them, as a coach, on how they are going to act as a man later in life.
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- Open minded guys that you can share stuff with
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March 1, 2018
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Diversity breeds immunity. Every great system also creates great deficiency.
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Most people think strength is always the answer. But we believe there are many things that come before strength. We first work with coordination, then when we get more organized we find a rhythm. Then that rhythm leads us to more kinetic potential and kinetic potential leads to power exploration. Power exploration then leads us to strength training.
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We want baseball players bodies to work in one rhythmic unit spending less energy on moving and putting more energy on where to react properly and making the right decisions.
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My background is in art, and what is the most important thing in art? Staying creative. We need to always stay creative and find new alterations
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February 22, 2018
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- What typically happens is players get into a game and the game speeds up. So what are we doing as coaches to help them slow the game down. A lot of times we preach that but we don’t teach it. We speed up practice so much that the game slows down.
- One thing that Coach Garrido and Coach Graham had in common that really resonated with me was that we got into this business to be teachers. To teach these young men to be better people, ballplayers, brothers, and husbands.
- We typically have 3 objectives
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- First and foremost we’re going to work individually with each player and look at them as individuals
- Next we’re going to work collectively (as a team)
- Then we’re going to work competitively
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We have to be well rounded. There’s so many different ways to win ballgames. We owe it to our players to give them different skills. At the end of the day if we have the chance to go to Omaha and we have to get a bunt down but the player can’t do it, if we haven’t given them the necessary skills to do that, thats on us. Same thing with a runner at third and less than 2 outs.
- We’re all in this together. At times, coaches want to build walls to separate themselves. Our goal should be to build relationships for 30 years.
- I didn’t get into coaching to win baseball games. In reality are we defined by that? Yes. But I think its important to understand that when we take the result out of the equation, we start to grow as a coach and as a person.
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- Telephone (calling other coaches)
- Fiction books
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February 15, 2018
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- For the most part we understand how to make players better and progressing them on the field, but the next frontier in sports and player development is understanding individual human behavior
- Great coaches have great discernment, They know when to push, when to pull, when to backoff, when to jump someone or when to let it simmer.
- I can talk mechanics and game strategy all I want, but if the athlete isn’t taking it and owning it, then its just my words. Their not engaged. Coaching is an incredibly dynamic social activity. It varies from situation to situation.
- Coaching isn’t just teaching, just psychology or just mentoring. Coaching is all of those.
- Its in our nature to try and create friendships and relationships. When kids want to hang out with you or stand by you when you’re hitting fungo and talk to you. Thats a sign of a great relationship. When it becomes an issue is when we can’t hold them accountable. If we can discipline when we need to, then its an issue.
- We need to be able to adjust our coaching strategies based on the environment, the athlete and the setting that you’re in
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