ON OCCASION, WE ALL TELL LIES to ourselves so that we can remain hopeful about our future. July is the final month of the summer baseball season. Travel baseball teams of varying ages from all over …
What should be in your coaching playbook
Before the word coach was used in the context of sports, it was reserved strictly for transportation. There was a horse, a coachman and a coach. The coachman controlled the horse, and the coach was …
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3 levels for equipping yourself with the right strategy
Practicing and training are not the same. The next level up from training is equipping. Equipping goes beyond training. Following are the three levels you must climb to get to where you need to be in …
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Why it’s important for your kids to get the right development
This is my 21st year serving as professional baseball swing coach. That's a lot of hours invested in to helping young players get to where they want to go. It takes 10,000 hours to develop a skill, …
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Reaping your harvest
For my Diamond Directors clients, August invites the "New Year" of development. August-November are the assessment months, where we try new things to determine what works and what doesn’t, while fall …
How to eat, drink and sleep baseball
Protein serves many functions in our bodies including: they are the major structural component of a cell, they are used for growth and repair of body tissues, they produce hemoglobin, enzymes and …
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