I’ve Lied To You for A Couple Years Now…Joey Votto On His 2018 Approach The Josh Donaldson interview last year was awesome, but I think THIS interview with Joey Votto may be better. It doesn’t have the same let-the-beast-out-of-cage feeling that Donaldson contributed, but I feel Votto gives us more of a glimpse into the […]
How To Hit A Ball 400-Feet By Streamlining 8,000-Pounds Per Square Inch Of Force In ONE Direction Most likely, Little Leaguers and 12-year-old young ladies won’t be driving the ball 400-feet anytime soon. I know that. However, the point of this “Pounding the Nail” drill video post is how to train hitters to direct […]
You Don’t Have To Gather 30+ Years Of Coaching To Be An Effective Teacher In the above video, I mentioned the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown. If you’re serious about helping get young athletes better, then you’ll read or listen to that book. The information […]
How “Loading & Exploding The Hips” Can Be VERY Dangerous To The Lower Back… We’ll get to the above video, but first let me be clear… I’m not saying the pelvis doesn’t play a role in the swing, because it does. However, I feel this spot reserved in the swing’s sequence of movements is hyper-focused […]
The Biggest Lie In Teaching Hitters How To Run Faster & Move Better The purpose of this post: How to make hitters faster, and How to apply David Weck’s “Head Over Foot” technique and “Pulsers” to hitters? Most sprint coaches will teach athletes to get faster by using a “braced core” (instead of […]