Building Catchers

Upper body shoulders and core warm up

Introduction to a morning wake up workout

Creating stress and body inclusion during warm ups is great at all ages. Notice the accuracy goes down. This has to improve.

Keys to success- Butt down, hands out front going through the ball.

Just after warming up, start the daily drills. One hop drills focus on but down and glove down. The glove comes up faster than going down. If making a tag, look to the scoop / tag drill.

A lot being said. 4 zones. Make the out in zone 2 or 3. Zones 1 and 4 are stressful as they are close to the bag. Make it easy on everyone by creating lanes and communicating.

During a run down, it will happen when the runner commits to the next base. The 3rd basemen in this play helped by coming off the bag on time and creating a lane.

A little game time story in a 1st and 3rd situation.

Work the body to stretch past a normal position. Constantly building on flexibility and dynamic body movement during baseball activities. The body learns over time.

75 percent of throwing velocity comes from the arm and shoulder. Teaching the body to finish and the arm to finish together optimizes velo and movement.

True power throwing starts from the ground up. Yes, feel the big toe pushing through the calf into a bent knee that drives through turning the hip and then upper body. Teaching the body connection.

When warming up, young players need to engage their mind and body. Installing basic like game movements into the warm up time will help improve game time experiences.

This is a young 12 U pitcher

Incredible moment for this young man. Dealing with incredible back pain from catching a couple games and yet still walks up and does this. True Grit, focus and will to win.

This video will give you a clear understanding of why we created blinkchallenge some 7 years ago.

This is a great video teaching how to manage first and third defensive strategy