Swing Smarter Hitting Training Podcast | ⭐Hitting Performance Lab⭐

By Joey MyersSports Education How To Baseball

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September 20, 2021Why You Can't ‘Try’ to Hit: Joe Yurko’s Sports Psychology Insights (Part 1)
Joe Yurko delves into the mental side of hitting, explaining why ‘trying too hard’ can hinder performance. Explore how athletes can adopt a mindset that frees their natural talent.
In this episode with Joe Yurko, a retired teacher and baseball coach who taught a Sports Psychology class, we go over:
Teacher-coach, what you were teaching, the psychology side, give everybody a little bit of a background...
Joe Yurko’s 10 Rules for Sports Psychology Success
What do you mean by you can't ‘try’ to hit?
“The more you forget, the better you are at doing it, and the better you are doing it, the more you can forget.” - Lawrence Shainberg
How did you get out of your head and just react when you play?
The ‘Pattern Interrupt’
“The mind is a great thing unless you must use it.” – Tim McCarver
Joe, where can people find you?
38 min
September 02, 2021Reliability Over Flash: Kyle Harrington on the True Value of Dependable Players
Kyle Harrington highlights why reliability is the most underrated trait in baseball. Learn why consistent players are critical for building successful teams.
Here's what we talk about in this episode:
Stephen was accelerating his barrel early, which is what we were teaching at the time, but by the time he got to contact, it was slowing down. Talk a little bit about that...
When I looked at Javy Baez, I was seeing him really turn, they say when the pitcher shows you their back pocket, then the hitter shows the pitcher their back pocket. I think that’s flawed...
It’s not how much hitter loads their upper torso that’s the issue with getting to inside pitch, it has to do with the barrel path...
It was this way [swing down], but his barrel [Bonds] stayed this way [flat], and you'll look at videos, and it just stays flat to the ball that's up in the zone or inside in the zone. He was one of the best...
There's a problem there if we want lower strikeouts, and we want a higher batting average, which some can argue isn't as important in today's game, but I still think it is...
Where can people find you to get more information?
28 min
September 01, 2021Building Your Hitting Database: Neil McConnell on Developing Consistent Batting Success
Hitting expert Neil McConnell explains what it means to ‘build the database’ for hitters, and how accumulating mental and physical hitting data leads to greater consistency and success.
Coach Neil McConnell, the founder of MaxBP whiffle ball pitching machines, et al. products
What Does It Mean To ‘Build The Database’ When It Comes To Hitting?
Here are some of the topics to be discussed:
You're doing a lot of really big things over the last year or two? Go ahead and let them know what you guys are up to?
What are some of those tools? I know you have a bunch of them, but say like top two or so outside of the actual pitching machines?
It's not just about a whiffle ball pitching machine to hit on?
What does it mean to ‘build the database’ when it comes to hitting?
You guys have done a lot of cool stuff with using max BP with catchers, how do you guys use that?
“Where you're making them make a decision and ignoring one color versus being locked into another color...”
“You can honestly get work in and probably 10-15 feet. 20 feet is a good space....”
Do you guys test them before they go out?
Where can people find you, the website, the social media, all that good stuff?
34 min
September 01, 2021Hitting the Curveball: Bill Masullo Reveals Why Players Struggle & How to Fix It
Bill Masullo shares insights on why many hitters struggle with curveballs, drawing from extensive experience. Gain practical tips on improving your approach to off-speed pitches.
“I saw 6000 guys; I didn't see anybody who could hit a curveball. It's like, how are we not hitting a curveball?”
What we go over:
Give me your sales pitch on you guys' Academy, what you guys do, where you’re located, etc.
How long has it been since you started following me Bill?
Do you guys do different experiments and stuff like that? Do you show those kids a part of your learning process?
What's your advice on the biggest mistake you see some of these hitting academies making in the beginning?
How are you guys applying Perry Husband’s stuff?
What hitting strategies are you talking about to your guys? And how are you practicing them?
Why ‘keep hands inside’ the curveball is a myth...
Bill and Joey on the state of youth baseball and softball: ‘free play’
Where can people find you Bill?
35 min
June 30, 2021Movement Screen Data: Joey Wolfe on How Corrective Exercises Transform Athlete Performance
Joey Wolfe examines data-driven outcomes showing improvements in athletes after corrective movement screenings. Learn why screenings and adjustments enhance athletic performance.
Strength & Conditioning Coach Joey Wolfe, owner of Paradigm Sport of Santa Cruz, California
Do You Have Data Showing the Difference of AFTER Putting Athletes Through a Movement Screen & Do Corrections?
Here are some of the topics to be discussed:
Where did you end up on the baseball scene?
Give me the origin story of Paradigm Sport. Why Paradigm Sport? What is you guys' main mission?
Is there a specific kind of screen that you guys use a movement screen?
Do you have any kind of data that's showing the difference after you put them through the screen and do the movement corrections?
I could imagine that a lot of our shoulders were just dynamite waiting to explode...
Is there a difference between your males and females? Or is there a pattern that emerges there?
Yeah, it's like an incubator. You guys are creating an incubator for the result, obviously being the athlete and beyond performing the game, but there's a lot...
Talk a little bit about the future of Paradigm Sport being online...
Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: https://gohpl.com/joeywolfetranscription
29 min
June 12, 2021Hitter Adjustments vs. Pitching Strategy: Geoff Rottmayer’s Keys to Winning at the Plate
Geoff Rottmayer emphasizes the importance of hitters focusing on real-time adjustments rather than just scouting pitcher tendencies. Learn strategies to quickly adapt at the plate.
Geoff Rottmayer of StrategicHittingGuy.com
“I Think We’d Like To Tell Guys More Than Seeing How They’re Pitching Him...See How They’re Adjusting To Them...”
What we go over:
What are your 5 Pillars to Preparation Success?
Who is Geoff Rottmayer?
What are some of the two-strike mindset approach type things that you guys talk about?
Basing plan at the plate on pitcher observations & PBR?
“Pregame data research, where you combine on and try to figure them out...”
“Every pitcher is different, his fastball, not his fastball, his curveball, not his curveball. It's really individualized and everything. That's the key to it individualizing as much as you can...”
“I think we'd like to tell guys more than seeing how they're pitching him...see how they're adjusting to them...”
“There are three mindsets that we've been able to identify over the last five, six years, and then it's really been an eye opener...”
What are some of the questions that you ask to take a player from compare-convince phase to compete-contribute?
So where can people find you as of today?
Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: https://gohpl.com/geoffrtranscription
Click short link for YouTube video of interview: https://gohpl.com/geoffrvideo
33 min
May 25, 2021Coach, Dad, or Both? Shawn Wolf Shares How to Navigate Coaching Your Own Kids
Shawn Wolf addresses the challenging balance between parenting and coaching your child in sports. Gain valuable insights on effectively separating roles and maintaining healthy boundaries.
Shawn Wolf, who I refer to as the “Team Whisperer”
Did You Separate Your Kids Being A Parent, Being A Dad And Being A Coach? How Did You Do That?
Here are some of the topics to be discussed:
Give us a little bit about your background on the coaching side, what you did with your boys, when you started coaching, and then when you let go...
Did you separate your kids being a parent, being a dad and being a coach? How did you do that?
How to find the balance of not coddling your kid on the team, and not ripping them apart...
How to not be the micromanaging or hover coach/dad...
Advice on how to treat your kid after an awful game (e.g., 0-6 with 5 K’s in the box)
Advice to overly organized coaches, checking all the “boxes”, but team still isn’t winning,
Any advice that you think that we missed on the call for maybe new coaches out there starting or maybe some of those veteran ones?
Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: http://gohpl.com/shawnwolftranscription
Click short link for YouTube video of interview: http://gohpl.com/shawnwolfvideo
40 min
May 21, 2021Top Pitching Mistakes Coaches Make: Mike Gillen’s Advice to Improve Player Development
Pitching coach Mike Gillen identifies two major coaching mistakes hindering pitching development. Learn what to avoid to maximize your pitchers’ potential.
Michael Gillen of PitcherPerfectPro.com
“Top Two Mistakes That Coaches Are Making In Teaching Pitching?”
What we go over:
Give us a little look at your setup over there...
Who you are, the kind of your mentors on the pitching side, who guides you and your training?
Top two mistakes that either pitchers or coaches are making in teaching pitching?
What do you feel with the whole Tommy John stuff? What do you feel like the top two issues that are leading to that?
When reading about spinal engine springy fascia, were you were able to apply those principles to pitching?
What are those two things that you go, alright, we need to fix those right away?
Like hitting, is there such thing as over-rotating when pitching?
Tell people where your website is, your social media, any kind of deals or what kind of deals that you do, obviously, locally, right? But are you doing some online lessons? Let people know that kind of stuff.
Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: http://gohpl.com/mikegillentranscription
Click short link for YouTube video of interview: http://gohpl.com/mikegillenvideo
35 min
April 17, 2021Athlete Happiness & Performance: Amanda Smith on Coaching Boys vs. Girls
Amanda Smith reveals how performance affects boys' happiness while girls’ happiness impacts performance. Learn coaching strategies to support mental wellness for both genders.
“When It Comes to Guys, The Performance Determines Their Happiness. When It Comes to Girls, The Happiness Determines the Performance”
What we go over:
Come to find out you are an Aerospace Engineer,
Where did you get White Zone Coaching from?
When it comes to guys, the performance determines their happiness. When it comes to girls, the happiness determines the performance...
... You can give them more and more and more as long as you know where their edges at,
“The Surfer’s Code” and what softball and baseball players can learn from it,
How do you coach your softball girls to deal with the 2020 challenges?
Amanda, where can people find you?
Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: http://gohpl.com/amandasmithtranscription
Click short link for YouTube video of interview: http://gohpl.com/amandasmithvideo
35 min
April 16, 2021Smart Hitting: Ray Camacho on Teaching Hitters to Read Pitcher Cues
Ray Camacho shares an insightful technique—pitchers tipping pitches during BP. Learn how smart hitters use subtle cues to anticipate and improve at-bats.
Ray Camacho of Fat On Fat Baseball & Softball Academy
I Don’t Use A Glove When I Throw BP, So I’ll hold Curveball Like This. I’ll Hold It. I Want to See If They’re Smart Enough to Look at My Hand
Here are some of the topics to be discussed:
Tell me a little bit about your nonprofit, where you guys are and what it's about,
Who are your top one or two follows for strength and conditioning?
“It's ever evolving with me because one kid teaches me how to do something for another kid...”,
"It's extremely tough as a parent to watch our kids struggle, fail, and be rejected. But if we don't let them experience it, while they're young, they'll have no idea how to handle it when life shows up later down the road. Our job is to love them and teach them how to work through it."
“I like to pride myself in not being just like a scratch a surface guy. I get deep.”
I think baseball and softball hitting a baseball softball consistently hard is the hardest thing to do in any sport,
The toe tap to me is the most adjustable swing that I've ever had,
I don't use a glove when I throw BP so I'll hold curveball like this. I'll hold it. I want to see if they're smart enough to look at my hand,
Where can people find you, talk about the social media platforms...
Click short link for transcribed interview in pdf format: http://gohpl.com/rayctranscription
Click short link for YouTube video of interview: http://gohpl.com/raycvideo
35 min

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