41: Jason Ochart- Director of Hitting, Driveline Baseball (WA)

• No two athletes are the same, but a vast majority of amatuer hitters need to develop batspeed 
• Young hitters are "cued" so much to put the ball in play, that they don't develop the coordination to move fast and swing with intent.
• Baseball hitting is one of the only skills in the world that trains in an environment that's easier than the game.
• A lot of our training is trying is trying to replicate game conditions and even making it harder and letting guys fail, because thats what theyre going to see in a game.
• If you are hitting 700 in practice, you're doing something wrong.
• What a coach says is important but what a coach doesn't say is equally important

• TPI
• Altis
• P3
• Dynamics of skill acquisition
• Rob Gray

• @JasonOchart
• Jason@drivelinebaseball.com

40: Connor Dawson and Ryan Parker- Hitting Coaches, 108 Performance (CA)

• We want everything to be player driven, once you make something important to you it now becomes yours

• As coaches, we know that players have to acquire certain skills, but players need to establish what they want to work on as well. We want them to be their best coach.

• We have to make sure our players are moving properly. But we also have to help them understand how they feel when they're moving properly and when they're not.

• The first time you do something shouldnt be the first time you do it.

• As a coach, I need to be able to speak the players language

• When we're working on the swing, its like trying to find your favorite flavor of ice cream. You're going to find one you like, and you're going to find some you cant stand.

• Like minded coaches and #hittingtwitter

• Megaman Vid

• Ian Renshaw

• Keith Davids

• Carl Newell constraints

• @coachdaws

• Facebook

• Instagram

• @RA_parker

Mini Clinic Monday Episode 3: Things in practice our players love

39: Greg Brown- Head Baseball Coach, Nova Southeastern University (FL)

• I think my why when I first started was winning ballgames and now all of my focus is on impacting young men.

• We raise pitch counts by swinging

• I often get asked, "what's you're two strike approach?" we don't have one

• I don't have a staff that works for me, i have a staff that works with me

• You never know what you can learn about your players until you start asking the right questions.

• We want to manage our drills so we can get maximum volume, maximum variances with attention to the individuals within the context of practice. 

• Eugene Bleecker

• Craig Wollenbrock

• Lind google drive

• Pitching Ninja

• Phone calls and conversations

• The obstacle is the way by Ryan Holliday

• Legacy by James Kerr

• Jon Gordon

• @brownie_gb44

• greg.brown@nova.edu

• @nsu_baseball

38: Brett Kay- Head Baseball Coach, JSerra Catholic HS (CA)

37: Trent Otis- Co-Founder of Zona Baseball Instruction (AZ)

• 3 years into coaching I tried to forget everything I knew about hitting. Now I try and continue to make sure everything I do makes sense, is backed up by video and biomechanical movement.

• There’s a better way to develop players in a team setting.

• We want our swing to be such that we launch it based on reaction, not anticipation. 

• We chart everything in batting practice.

• I want every training session to be harder than what you are going to see in a game.

• Our number one goal as hitting coaches: We have to make players successful in the game, not just in practice.

• Sometimes what you feel isn’t real

• Anson Dorrance

• Eugene Bleecker

• Ryan Parker

• #hittingtwitter

• Dustin Linds Hitting Drive

• Craig Hyatt

• Joan Vickers- Perception, cognition and decision training

• @zona_baseball

• Zona Baseball Instruction

• http://www.zonabaseballinstruction.com/

• Mirrors

• PVC Pipes

• Therabands

• Shortbats

36: Joseph Cancellieri- Director of Research and Development, 108 Performance (CA)

• The more I learn, the less I know.

• Its really interesting to look at this 4 things during an entire season.
  • Energy 
  • Soreness
  • Stress
  • Sleep

• We need to educate athletes on what should be done outside of practice and games so that it can create a world where the athlete is recovered and ready to play everyday

• Alot of kids have developed compensatory patterns where they complete the intended task but they're doing so in a wrong way.

• I look at movement as a language of our brain

• In order for the body to function properly, there must be a cohesiveness between the muscles, joints, and neuromuscular system.

• Dr. Keith Pyne

• Gee Voyeur

• Scott Kelso

• 108 Research and Development

• Joe Cancellieri- IG