For youth sports:

It does not matter how good a kid is at a sport until after they go through puberty.

There is no such thing as an 11 year old sports star.

Do not over-index on early promise.

Focus on exploration, fun, and cultivating interests. Not performance.

My job as a parent and my job as a coach are fundamentally the same thing

I have to prepare my kids and my players for environments where I'm not going to be there to help them

If I create dependency on me at the foundation I have failed them

In baseball/softball we don't even have the right conversations about practice design for hitters

We do and talk about all these things that have zero context to the actual skill of hitting

So many of our players that end up on college campuses wished they had asked better questions on their recruiting visit before they signed!

Here are 5 questions to ask on your official visit

- What are your expectations for my development and playing time?

- How is the…

If you go to any amateur baseball or softball practice/game you will see a similar pattern whenever it is time to 'get loose'

Not only are you causing slow damage to unprepared muscles & tissue but you are ingraining inefficient, poorly sequenced mechanics that you will wish…

I believe in order to change a broken system we have to begin to change the dialog.

The “proper mechanics” narrative needs to stop. Theres no such thing.

Trying to teach volunteer coaches/ parents about the biomechanics of an 8 yr old is unrealistic.

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Post throwing exercises are often overlooked but very important to develop a healthy arm care & throwing program

The problem is that we don't want to continue to stress the arm by taking it through the ranges of motion it has already been through

This is why we use a series of…