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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 Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Bio
- Entering 8th season at Glenville State College WV
- 2015 MEC coach of the year
- 10 All conference players during his tenure
- Served as an assistant coach at West Virginia State (Under Cal) for two years and was a player at WV State
- Also serves Salem Community College and Davis & Elkins College
Episode Notes
- Cal Bailey really knew how to connect with players
- As a baseball coach was a continuous learner, books on the bus, asking questions
- Negatives in the office, praise in front of the team
- Promised a good college baseball experience, serve the community, care!
- Competition is our number one priority (cages, weight room, everything!)\
- Barrels in the cage
- Attacking our irrational beliefs
- When an action happens (ump bad call) you react negatively with bad self talk
- “Are you that bad of a player that everything needs to go right for you to win?”
- Marketing your brain (whiteboard on a mirror, seeing your intentions)
- A - Activating Event (bad circumstance)
- B - Belief system (my perception of the event)
- C - Consequence
- D - Disputing those beliefs (do I have to have everything go right for me?
- E - Executing the new belief (positive self talk)
- Have players create their own processes and release (ownership)
- If I talked to you the way you are talking to yourself you wouldn’t like me very much! ~ Cal Bailey mound visit
- Classroom sessions are as needed, and sometimes may be just for a player
- “Social stretching” - time to just stretch and relax and get the talking out of our system
- Use Google Drive to drop in resources for each player, and their specific needs
- Given a goal during a practice or consequence after practice (pants in the weightroom)
- Daily task during BP
- Goal jersey for web gem of the day
- Individual skills with start foundational and then work to give players choice to what they need
- “Balloon breathing” with trainer that incorporates better movements.
- james.mullins@glenville.edu
- Twitter @jmullins85
- 304-549-2952
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