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Concrete content for anyone looking to get better. This community is for people who want to grow themselves, and grow the game. We know the game of baseball teaches us so many valuable life lessons!
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Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Show Notes
- After you win a championship no one cares
- Servant club called WAR - Christmas time going and volunteer, doing something for veterans
- Who are you going to serve?
- We need champions for kids
- I can’t find a good story, nothing positive.
- Kids follow the model that we set for them
- Going to a Unified sports meet
- 2 minutes at the beginning or end of the practice to set the mood (mentality)
- 2 hour vacation from life
- Make an error, take your hat off, and when your ready put it back on
- The kids changed me as I discovered their stories
- RELATIONSHIPS
- Its not black and white - its not
- Restorative justice
- Normal is what you know
- Each week is a theme
- “Season of Life” book by Joe Urman
- Why do I coach
- Why do I coach the way I do?
- What is it like to be coached by me?
- Two other questions
- How can you project a kid ability?
- Everyone is a pitcher until they are not
- Be unusual - usual gets SMASHED
- Most guys are not 90 mph kids so they should
- Power, crafty, funky, arm plane (sidearm, submarine), hide the ball, timing wrecker, one pitch guy
- Know your kids and the better relationship with the kid the easier it is to put them in a role
- How are the kids feet? Good feet and footwork = good arm plane guy
- When the pitcher shows you their pocket, hitter shows you their pocket
- Sidearm - be quick, great movement, emulate the hili paddle (throw with a bent arm)
- Keys of pitching - Location, velocity, movement, deception
- How well do you know the kid?
- Go find good coaches, and study them!
- 2 worst things are pop ups and strikeouts
- More games are lost than won
- Slashing is helping give us a chance to stay out of the air and not strikeout
- Ball, close, and a strike and you better be swinging at 2 of them!
- Mindset that is self made and self motivated, and have to want to do it! Finding ways to make himself better. I want to be better!
- Contact info:
- coachfranklin@yahoo.com
- www.mike-franklin.com
- Twitter - @AuthorCoachF
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