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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Thursday Jun 14, 2018
Thursday Jun 14, 2018
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Daws
We want everything to be player driven, once you make something important to you it now becomes yours
As coaches, we know that players have to acquire certain skills, but players need to establish what they want to work on as well. We want them to be their best coach.
We have to make sure our players are moving properly. But we also have to help them understand how they feel when they're moving properly and when they're not.
Park
The first time you do something shouldnt be the first time you do it.
As a coach, I need to be able to speak the players language
When we're working on the swing, its like trying to find your favorite flavor of ice cream. You're going to find one you like, and you're going to find some you cant stand.
Resources
Like minded coaches and #hittingtwitter
Megaman Vid
Ian Renshaw
Keith Davids
Carl Newell constraints
Contact
Connor
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Parker
@RA_parker
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Monday Jun 04, 2018
Monday Jun 04, 2018
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Jesse
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@gmanoneone
@DtrickN
@Hitithere50
@coach33_410
Mike Reed
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Thursday May 31, 2018
Thursday May 31, 2018
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Quotes
I think my why when I first started was winning ballgames and now all of my focus is on impacting young men.
We raise pitch counts by swinging
I often get asked, "what's you're two strike approach?" we don't have one
I don't have a staff that works for me, i have a staff that works with me
You never know what you can learn about your players until you start asking the right questions.
We want to manage our drills so we can get maximum volume, maximum variances with attention to the individuals within the context of practice.
Resources
Eugene Bleecker
Craig Wollenbrock
Lind google drive
Pitching Ninja
Phone calls and conversations
The obstacle is the way by Ryan Holliday
Legacy by James Kerr
Jon Gordon
Contact
@brownie_gb44
greg.brown@nova.edu
@nsu_baseball
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Thursday May 24, 2018
Thursday May 24, 2018
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Baseball is going to be data driven and we as high school coaches have to evolve.
We have to know our players. We have to know who can do what, where and how and what they're good at because everyone learns and develops differently.
A great program starts at the home
We take these at bats, throw these pitches, and field ground balls with these kids because we want it so bad for them. We want them to see the success that we know they're capable of.
By the time our kids leave here, we want to say we did everything we could for them internally, externally, and competitively.
We have 2 rules
Be on time
Do things right
Were gonna teach you how to play the game the right way but we're going to have to act the right way.
Resources
Driveline
Connections/relationships
Twitter
Heads up baseball
Contact
Brett.Kay@jserra.org
@coachkay13
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Thursday May 17, 2018
Thursday May 17, 2018
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3 years into coaching I tried to forget everything I knew about hitting. Now I try and continue to make sure everything I do makes sense, is backed up by video and biomechanical movement.
There’s a better way to develop players in a team setting.
We want our swing to be such that we launch it based on reaction, not anticipation.
We chart everything in batting practice.
I want every training session to be harder than what you are going to see in a game.
Our number one goal as hitting coaches: We have to make players successful in the game, not just in practice.
Sometimes what you feel isn’t real
Resources
Anson Dorrance
Eugene Bleecker
Ryan Parker
#hittingtwitter
Dustin Linds Hitting Drive
Craig Hyatt
Joan Vickers- Perception, cognition and decision training
Contact
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Zona Baseball Instruction
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Mirrors
PVC Pipes
Therabands
Shortbats
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Thursday May 10, 2018
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Quotes
The more I learn, the less I know.
Its really interesting to look at this 4 things during an entire season.
Energy
Soreness
Stress
Sleep
We need to educate athletes on what should be done outside of practice and games so that it can create a world where the athlete is recovered and ready to play everyday
Alot of kids have developed compensatory patterns where they complete the intended task but they're doing so in a wrong way.
I look at movement as a language of our brain
In order for the body to function properly, there must be a cohesiveness between the muscles, joints, and neuromuscular system.
Resources
Dr. Keith Pyne
Gee Voyeur
Scott Kelso
Contact
108 Research and Development
Joe Cancellieri- IG
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Monday Apr 30, 2018
Monday Apr 30, 2018
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Diamyn Hall Suggestions
360 Leader
Culture Code
Talk like Ted
The Leader Phrase Book
Talent is never enough
7 habits of highly effective people
The team captains leadership manual
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Leadership resources
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
Brian Kight Focus 3
Brian Cain
Stephen Mackey
Above the line
Legacy
Joe Ehrmann
Tim Corbin- What Drives Winning
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Thursday Apr 26, 2018
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Recover for baseball: Key concepts, thoughts, and practical applications by Dr. Stephen Osterer
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Quotes
You can get away with throwing year round as long as we’re managing how much throwing we’re actually doing.
I take the vantage point of pitchers being a lot less fragile than we give them credit for.
One thing we focus on more is quantifying and qualifying range of motion.
Its fairly easy to gain strength but a lot of people don’t fully appreciate how difficult it is to make changes in range of motion.
At the end of the day we’re creating more movement options for hitting/pitching coaches to use during skill acquisition.
There are some things we need to look at more with a critical lens.
Just because it works for a specific individual doesn’t mean we need to throw everything at everyone.
Whats the purpose, whats the rationale, why are we doing this and is it doing what we intended it to do?
I used to throw everything at everyone because someone was doing it and saying it worked. I think we can be better than that.
How we recover in season should be significantly different than how we recover in the offseason
Resources
Link to CARs article
Eric Cressey
Driveline
Fangraphs
Motus
Routledge Textbooks
Rob Grey
Contact
baseballdevelopmentgroup.com
@drosterer
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Thursday Apr 19, 2018
Thursday Apr 19, 2018
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Quotes
Are you looking to increase practice performance or are you looking for skill transfer into the game?
We want to replicate the game as much as possible and help our players to determine what movement works best for them given their body type, flexibility and mobility and perception of whats happening in their environment.
If your in an environment where you aren’t learning, how do you expect to pass the test on game-day?
Until you explain the why to players and coaches, it doesn’t matter what you’re trying to do.
Create environments in practice where its ok to push yourself and to fail because that's where the learning happens
We want optimization not just organization
Resources
Social media
Shawn Myska
Rob Grey
The Hoops Whisperer- Idan Ravin
Motor learning and performance- Richard Schmidt
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Thursday Apr 12, 2018
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Quotes
Training is a trial and error process
I was on the low part of the totem pole walking on in college, but it kept me hungry. I also got to see everyday that the other guys weren't superhuman. They were either just a little bit bigger, a little bit stronger, better mobility or better mechanics. It wasn't just a genetic thing.
You have the freedom to do things outside of practice. Most think its show up to practice, do what you're told and then leave. Everybody is doing that. So what differentiates you?
Gaining velocity is not an easy or linear process. Much of it is plateaus and you can't frustrated. You have to keep on trying, keep on failing, keep on testing and keep on evaluating until you get through that plateau.
In college, we had a structured snack break before batting practice everyday to help guys gain weight. It was mandatory for everyone to bring something to eat for practice every single day.
There's this conventional baseball wisdom that says "if you aren't doing the exact same stuff as everybody else at every single moment of the practice, you aren't a team player." Baseball is an individual sport played within a team setting. For all of our kids to develop to their potential, they need an individualized program. If everyone develops to their potential, that's going to help the team win.
Most everything i tell the guys i work with is just a suggestion with an explanation behind why i'm suggesting it. Some things repeatedly work for some guys and don't work for others.
Resources
Building the 95 MPH body
Myfitnesspal
Eric Helms
Mike Israetel
John Berardi
Precision nutrition
Renaissance periodization
Brian Mann and velocity based training
Jim Wendler
Martin Berkhan
Rob Friedman
Paul Nyman set pro
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