Mental Side, Struggling Hitter Approach, And Batter’s Box Psychology To Overcome Fear Of Failure For Baseball & Softball Batting | Relax And Build Confidence When Feeling Anxiety & Mind Block At Plate
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Mental Approach To Hitting: “Failing Forward”
Michael Jordan hitting with the Chicago White Sox in 1994. Photo courtesy: http://www.sportsonearth.com/
“Failing Forward” like Derek Jeter, Reggie Jackson, & Michael Jordan. This was a “rough draft” inspirational speech I did for my local Toastmasters group. Sorry audio isn’t as good as my other videos.
I wrote it for my parents, coaches, and hitters who are struggling through the hitting process. CLICK HERE for my speech cliff notes. Big thanks go out to Ryan West and his son Ian for the text message 🙂
Here are some other great mental health, training, and approach posts we did:
- Youth Game Day Mental Approach Hitting Training for Baseball & Softball Players,
- Mental Approach to Hitting: ‘Failing Forward’,
- Mental Coach Training Program for Baseball and Softball Athletes,
- Dr. Tom Hanson: How to Build Mentally Tough Hitters, and
- Importance Of Top Mental Health Coaching In Sports Performance Training.
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Great speech and topic. It’s always the process that lead to the end result. Unfortunately most young athletics have 100% focus on the outcome and not the mechanics needed to achive the wanted result. You need to build a sound foundation of correct technique and mechanics to understand, and therefore not think about, what’s needed to deliver power and precision. Then you can direct your focus and mental picture for the upcoming task. You must dare to fail in the process to succeed in the outcome!
Right on Michael! I’m not quite sure if this 100% focus on results is because of nature or nurture. Typically, a kid’s tendencies are a reflection of their parents’. As a parent of a 2 year old boy who loves to hit (without me pushing him btw), I don’t tell him “Good Job!”, but “You did it!” The preceding is passing judgement on the result, which puts an emphasis on results (to the kid anyway). Read this article discusing “5 Reasons To Stop Saying ‘Good Job!'”: http://bit.ly/1H42CSl Thanks for the comment brotha!
I never considered Jeter’s upper body movement on certain pitched balls as actually falling forward, he was always under good body control while doing so although I would never suggest to any batter to copy his upper body move. I would really like to hear from him his reasons for doing so.
Don Ervin
Good point Don! I would also add, the early forward hand movement to the list of things I wouldn’t teach younger hitters that DJ did 😉