Founder of GoWags baseball academy in 2008Author of How the RiverCats WonAuthor of Green Light hittingGreen light academy websitePlayed collegiately at Wake Forest University from '92-'95. Caught in the California Angels organization for one year (Boise '95)Coaching experience Elizabethtown College ('97 and '99) Wake Forest ('98) Red Land High School ('00 - '08)@GoWagsKyle
- Are the people excited when they are with you?
Something the kids could look forward to Broke up between macro and micro events (team and individual)Musts - “will they like this?”Sell them on the beauty of the gameMacro event - runner on 3rd 1 out - live ball runner runsFun game at the end to Too much information not enough inspiration (overcoaching)Youth coaching is to turn kids over for love of the gameImplicit and explicit- Implicit - no takes, no foul balls
Down 3, 6 outs to go - play against the scoreboardDo the fun stuff while you are teachingPractice time is the coaches time, plan, prepare, and coaches on the same pagePlanning is more important than the planAdaptable in the plan when the coach notices something is not rightGet them out on time!Intent precedes contentEmbrace what they are not doing well and put them in a situation to do itMicro event - perfect and deliberate practiceMacro event - train ugly, and don’t know what will happen. Find out what they are capable. Find failure and embrace itIf the whole team is there deliberate practice won’t happen, more about competing and repsDevelopment is not linear, its sequentialGreen light hitting - sequential hitting approach- Core starts and then smaller muscles could work
Aggression precedes discipline Train them to minimize choicesEliminate not swing to train them to elite veloProve to me that you can be too quickShow me you can find your barrel on this BBYou take a pitch because you can’t hit it hardHitter to be able to move Laterally late- Inside tee, soft toss away - no toss and hit off tee up the middle
We want you to be a great hitter not great swinger of the batTurn fastPosturePost chainHandsLower halfYou need to be good enough to keep coming backDon’t overcoachLineup is seen more circular than linearStacked it from top to bottom with best hitters4th batter should strikeout least often due to so many runners being on3rd hitter high velo and great eyeEvery manager deserves the right to intuitionPitchers need to get swing and missed in the zone and hitters need to eliminate swing and misses in the zone- Who is owning the strike zone
Exit velo coupled with launch angle (barrel %)Pitchers - weak contact and how often get swing and missesPitching independent fieldingTraining pitchers more on the game moundVisualize on the game mound 
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