Ahead Of The Curve with Jonathan Gelnar
Host Jonathan Gelnar and an array of guests from differing backgrounds discuss how to develop the complete baseball player. This will be your source for the most up to date coaching strategies for baseball player and coach development.
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Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
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Summary:
In this episode, I will be going solo! This was a talk I gave at the Virginia Baseball Coaches Association on Nov 30. I hope you can take 1-2 things away from this, just like I usually take 1-2 things away from all of you! Here is the accompanying powerpoint.
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Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
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In this episode of Ahead of the Curve, I talk with Troy Cameron, past professional baseball player in the Atlanta Braves farm system. Today, Troy gives back to the community as Head Coach St. Thomas Aquinas High School. Troy shares his tips on how he develops a killer training program for his team on and off the field
Show Notes:
Guest: Troy Cameron, professional baseball player who is now sharing his passion and helping others as a Coach
What coaching looks like for a team of 100 kids
How Troy develops a conditioning program for his kids
Why Florida's new regulations are not hindering the teams practice during the fall
Why fall training focuses on baseball fundamentals and building fitness
Troy has 14-15 coaches during baseball season
Coach- player ratio of 1:4
Why Troy relies on the power of his coaching team and network
What a typical spring practice looks like for Troy´s team
We do situations a lot
Why Troy focuses on bat control during BP
Why Troy focuses on bunting even when he doesn't believe in it
How Troy structures his team tryouts
What Troy wish he would have known before becoming a coach
How Troy handles parent communication with his athletes
How Troy prepares assistant coaches to be head coaches
What changes Troy makes in his program from year to year
3 Key Points:
In the offseason, it is important to encourage overall health. Troy does this through a conditioning program and focusing on fundamentals.
Having an integrated support team which includes coaches and teachers allows Troys team to succeed in baseball and academics.
Beyond technical training and fitness, communication is key for having a successful team.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “If you create the right culture, and that culture can kind of grow in a direction that you see it and wanted to be in every year, you have your chance to put your stamp on it.” – Troy.
- “You gotta have your top guy that everybody looks up to on your team as the man, this guy is the guy. If he's too good to sweep the sheds, or he's too good to pick up the helmet back, then you're in trouble.” – Troy.
- “We try to find as many things we can off the field to get these guys together. And that challenge is certainly one of the things I look forward to every year.¨–Troy
- “Our situations are what we really focus in on.¨–Troy
- “Play to your strengths and and you'll be able to play the game as long as you're meant to play it.¨–Troy
- “One of the core strengths was the communication.¨–Troy
- ¨I don't want them to feel like they're forced to have to play for me because I'm their coach. I want to know they want to play for me¨–Troy
Resources Mentioned:
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Troy Cameron--troy.cameron@Aquinas-fca.org
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Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
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In this episode, I talk with Ryan Chapman, professional baseball player turned Coach. Ryan focuses on helping players reach their full baseball potential at the Chapman Baseball Compound. He observes, supports, and trains baseball players while imparting his professional expertise.
Show Notes:
Guest: Ryan Chapman, professional baseball player who is now sharing his passion and helping others as a Coach
How Ryan became a baseball coach
When Ryan got drafted and his experience in pro-ball
Why the pro-ball journey was more important than the destination for Ryan
Why Ryan quit pro-ball to pursue helping others
How the Chapman baseball compound is different from other training centers
Why Ryan spends the first day of his training observing and learning about the players
How Ryan structures his hitting and pitching programs
How coaches can fix common and technical players in problems
Why consistency over the season is important
Why issues are not with hitting and pitching but rather movement
How mobility tests can be a good tool for players
How are offseason and season training are different
How training in the weight room changes from off-season to season playing
How technology can make a difference in a players game
Why one metric isn't more important than another
Techniques that build a better pitcher
Why it is important to expose players to varying situations
Dynamic vision training is on the horizon
3 Key Points:
Ryan played professional baseball but now he is leveraging what he knows to help others as a coach.
Movement and mobility are important pieces of improving hitting and pitching, more-so than specific techniques.
It is important to practice on-field techniques more-so than sprints and weight training. Though holistically, they are important. It is more important to be able to hit the ball.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “So in my opinion, a lot of movement issues aren't so much swing issues or pitching issues, they are overall just movement issues.” – Ryan.
- “There is no true offseason.” – Ryan.
- “We're definitely striving to make sure that we're we're challenging them and making it a fun environment at the same time.¨–Ryan
- “So, you know, we only know what we know. And it's up to us to be able to better ourselves.¨–Ryan
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Ryan Chapman
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Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
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Quotes
If you’re not sleeping, recovering and taking nutrition seriously, you won’t peak at your highest performance.
Im a true believer of lifting in season. Most of our guys were stronger at the super regional than at the beginning of the season.
If you’re not competitive you’re not going to be very successful
Our rules in the weight room. Always bring enthusiasm and hard work unknown to mankind.
Our pitchers do speed work. They may not run the bases but making them more athletic and help them on the mound by understanding his body
If you want to be fast then you have to run fast
The longest period of time we have to train our players in the weight room is in season.
We train in the offseason for the in season and we train in the in season for the post season
Resources
Rugby strength coach podcast
Tobias Jacoby
Zach Dechant
Contact
@StrengthBk37
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Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
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Surround yourself with people, treat them right. Work as hard as you want them to work. Care as much as you wan them to care and you've got a chance to have a really good program
Sloppiness and lack of discipline turns into losing.
If I'm asking my players to be disciplined, then i better be disciplined. I cant ask my players to do something I'm not doing myself.
If you cant hustle, I cant play you.
Being able to communicate with your players is one of the best assets of being a good coach
Even though times have changed and kids have changed a little bit, they’re still the same. If have high expectations for them, you’re gonna get it.
Contact
Jackleggett.com
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Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
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Quotes
You’ve got to surround yourself with really good people. Thats one of the biggest reasons I’ve had success.
Every coach has to coach to their own personality.
Number one- Our players need to understand we’re there for them.
We need to do things in practice that will prepare our players for the game so when they’re in a game they will tell themselves that they’ve been there before over and over again.
Practice preparation is the most important thing a coach can learn
We need to spend most of our time in practice doing stuff that actually happens in the game.
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Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
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Quotes
If you’re the head coach then you need to be able to do everything. You obviously need to delegate but you also need to have an understanding of every aspect on the field.
In the end you’ve gotta be committed to winning. Its not the 9 best its always the best 9.
Baseball is a relationship game. Its not about your agenda or your wins and losses, its about the player.
A bad swing on time has a chance.
If we’re going to be good, we need to tell everyone what they need to hear not what the want to hear.
Theres nothing more common than a man with talent who has failed and at the end of the day you aren’t going to tell yourself you wish you hadn’t worked so hard.
Resources
https://www.weinsteinbaseball.com/
Mike Maack Email
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@JWONCatching
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Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
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We vary a lot with tasks, environment, unstable surfaces and bats and we fatigue parts of the body
By changing things constantly the body has to find a new solution every time to come up with a good swing.
We use alot of variety and we make the enviroment chaotic.
The first thing I look for is the endpoint of the swing
When we hit batting practice, we never tell them what pitch we’re going to throw.
We’re trying to go away from looking at fixed movements because they dont happen in a game.
Resources
Frans Bosch book
Attention and motor skills learning Gabriel Wolfe
Rob Gray podcast
Dynamics of skill acquisition
Contact
Twitter- @BartHanegraaff
Email- barthanegraaff@icloud.com
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Friday Oct 19, 2018
Friday Oct 19, 2018
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Quotes
(On decision training) Athletics is just a series of good decisions, so how can we train that?
The thing with weighted bats is they help us to solve problems. The bat itself is a teaching device.
Contact
@RA_Parker
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Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
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Quotes
Having a high Level swing doesn’t necessarily make you a high level hitter.
Creating a culture of buy in and development comes down to being able to talk with your player.
Contact
@JD_Hitting
jdehart@mariners.com
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