When coaching youth baseball, focusing on proper technique and training is key. Ground reaction forces are important but not as crucial to power as most coaches make it seem. I say the lower half (legs mostly) supply 20-30% of power, the rest comes from the spinal engine, the three piec...
📲 Follow college baseball on Bleacher Report Ensley said he left the game only because he could not be himself. “I think if you would ask the coaches or my teammates you know what you’re getting out of me. I’m willing to run into a wall like that,” ...
“Even in my ten plus seasons of big league baseball, I learn something new about myself and the game almost everyday. When I reflect back on my nine off-seasons, what I realized that I really missed, particularly in my early years, was a mentor that could have shown me how to train...
Shout out to the Volunteer Parent-Coaches! Posted on March 7, 2019 by smarcia12 It’s that time of the year! In my opinion, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, sorry Christmas! Recreation baseball and softball leagues are swinging into gear all over the place! Kids are trying...
"We need you to do what you do best, which is a short swing," Barkett recalls the two coaches telling Benintendi, "and hit line drives all over the yard."The result has been a hitter not exactly like the one the Red Sox thought they selected seventh overall in the 2015 Draft, ...
Still I enjoy reading the scientific explanations. Even though we use the word "rotational" more than MLB hitting coaches do. They don't use the word "linear" either. I do hear the word "back spin" used a lot. That said, I can't argue against the value of learning and practicing th...
My friends thought it weird. What could a climbing coach teach me, after all these years and thousands of hard routes? It turns out to be the wrong question. Not the wrong question forever, but the wrong question to start. The most important lessons from my climbing coaches--Nick and Hea...