11 hours ago by Dr. Tom

Bring back, that winning feelin Woah, that winning feelin Bring back that winning feelin Cause it’s gone,gone,gone wooooooh – with apologies to the Righteous Brothers As a baseball guy, I like to watch other sports for tips on baseball coaching, mental toughness, and confidence. I watched Apollo Ono ...

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12 hours ago by Dr. Tom

Three umpires stand talking at home plate, waiting for the home team to take the field. The topic is calling balls and strikes. I may be a new umpire, the first one says, but it just isn’t that hard. I call them as they are. The second umpire smiles and shakes his head knowingly, for as a more exper ...

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3 days ago by Todd Thomas

I was at a high school level ball game recently. Of the two teams playing, one was filled with a group of very cocky players. They were cocky and CONFIDENT. What’s interesting is that the players on this team had some of the worst baseball swings I have ever seen in my life. But they were confident ...

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3 days ago by kenny

Try these baseball coaching tips to help you assess your players. As a new baseball manager with a brand new group of kids I was trying to figure out positions that each child could play during the first couple of baseball practices. I wanted to make practice fun but still be able to judge arm stren ...

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6 days ago by Dr. Tom

The White Sox won the World Series because they deserved it. How did they do it? How does a team break through and do something they’ve never done? We saw many of the same elements in last year’s Red Sox and I’ll point to a few things I think we all can learn from. First, you have to have enough tal ...

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11 days ago by Todd Thomas

Exactly what is muscle memory and how do you create it for a specific thing you want your body to learn to repeat? The term muscle memory is thrown around so loosely, but do those who use the term really know what muscle memory is and how to create it? So many have just heard the term and simply rep ...

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15 days ago by Dave Hudgens

Many people ask me to explain how the hands start the bat instead of the upper body. I always teach for the hitter to pull his/her hands through with the bat head back. But several players have said that when they pull their hands through it seems as though it is done with my front shoulder and fron ...

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15 days ago by Todd Thomas

Principle #One – Weight Transfer First of all, weight transfer is NOT a hitting technique, but rather an element of hitting. There is back to front movement in a players swing process as part of hitting with any kind of consistency and power. Sitting, squishing the bug is simply poor mechanics. Watc ...

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18 days ago by Todd Thomas

As a hitter, you’re goal should be to have practiced your mechanics so repetitively that they eventually become second nature. I was reading in a book on muscle memory this week and it said it takes about 400 hours of repetition for a skill to become FULLY automatic. That’s a lot. So if you are look ...

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20 days ago by Dr. Tom

Baseball skills errors explained in this short video. Why do players make errors and other mistakes? All are explained with this 5 part model by ex-Yankee mental game consultant Dr. Tom Hanson. This will dramatically improve your ability to acquire and teach baseball skills. Get the #1 baseball succ ...

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