Cornerstone Coaching Academy Podcast

In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

How to get your specific questions answered by Coach Kyle Nelson

How to teach players to read dirt balls

The different ways you can teach players to read dirt balls, and what you should be working on in practice

What normal spin rates are for high school fastballs

How we used the DK Spinball to help our pitchers last year

 

Resources of the Show

Take part in next month's Q and A, join Cornerstone Elite Today!

If you're not quite ready to be Elite yet, you can get a sample of our 5 Chaos Hitting Drills HERE.

Looking for a great online course to take, check out our "Recognizing, Diagnosing, and Fixing Common Hitting Flaws" eCourse

In this episode of the CCA podcast you will learn:

What I look for in the pitchers to try to steal

The timings I use when looking at pitchers and catchers to steal bases

What I add to that calculation for the time of infielders making the tag on a normal play

The pitch we try to run on

The steals that don't show up on the stat sheet, but they count the same!

 

Resources of the Show

Bring modern day player development into the team setting... Join CCA Elite for 30 days for just $1 

 

 

In this Mini-Podcast, you will learn three tips to run great practices in a team setting.

 

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

What to do after you run your hitting assessment

The buckets I'm planning on using next year to address individual weaknesses

Two possible ways you can organize your team to allow players to work on their weaknesses.

What ALL high school and travel players need work on.

Some ideas of what to work on within each bucket

 

Resources of the Show

Join Cornerstone Elite during our Black Friday Special to get 1 of our 50  $1 - 30 day trial memberships before Cyber Monday.

Running a hitting assessment with your team podcast

Running a hitting assessment with your team Web Clinic video

5 Chaos Hitting drills to make your practices more game-like.

Take a tour of Cornerstone Elite Here

In this Mini Podcast, I talk about what I've been up to from an administrative stand point.

There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes!

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

Why you should run a hitting assessment with your team

Two possible set ups for a hitting for a hitting team based hitting assessment

Everything you will need to consider from technology to data recording to coach allocation

Should you do your hitting assessment using a BP pitcher, a machine, or something else?

How to ensure you're able to compare apples to apples each time you do an assessment.

Resources of the Show

Black Friday Waiting List - Get early access to one of our 50 $1 trials we are offering on Black Friday + the 2018 and 2019 Winter Clinics as a BONUS when you join from the waiting list

Recognizing, Diagnosing and Fixing Common Hitting Flaws eCourse - This course takes you step by step from assessment to what drills you should prescribe for specific weaknesses.

Hitting Pyramid Blog Post and Podcast - One of our most popular podcasts shows the most important things you can do to create game ready hitters.

 

Join me tomorrow for our Live Web Clinic on Running a Hitting Assessment With Your Team at 11:00-11:30am Central Time.

 

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

What does our warm-up look like

What lifts should you become really good at teaching?

What lifts we avoid

Aside from lifting, the benefit our players get from our weight lifting program

What you should do during the season to keep your players strong all year.

 

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In this Cornerstone Mini Podcast, I answer the question, what to do if you throw bad batting practice?

 

 

 

 

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