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Eugene Bleecker- Founder and Director of Player Development for 108 Performance (CA) Mar 22, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes There's a difference between kids who play baseball and baseball players More than anything we believe in individuals. We believe that the only thing you can do wrong as a coach/trainer is to make everyone do the same thing. We need to figure out what the players need and not just what it is that we want to teach them. If we make it more about our players and less about our programs, were going to get more out of them as individuals and as a results were going to win more games. There's 5 guys on every team that if they think “swing up” they’re going to have a bad season. There's also 5 guys that if they think “swing down” they’re going to have a bad season. We’ve gotta figure out what each guys needs Its not about the best “cue” its about getting the best results. I grew the most in my career when I stopped looking for what everyone did the same and started looking for what they did different. Players will not always say what you say but they will do what you do. If you aren’t their first example in life on who you would want them to be, then you need to do some things differently. You have a huge impact on them, as a coach, on how they are going to act as a man later in life. Resources #Hittingtwitter Open minded guys that you can share stuff with Connor Dawson Wes Johnson Rick Strickland Ryan Parker Dustin Lind And his google drive Steve Johnson (leg kick nation) Trent Otis (ZBI Baseball) Nonlinear Pedagogy Contact 108@108performanceacademy.com 951-354-2589 Twitter IG Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Josh Kesel- CEO/Director of Human Performance for P3 Performance, St. Louis Mar 15, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes It's not just about putting time in the weight room and on the field, it's a lifestyle. You've gotta make sure your priorities are right in the kitchen, in the classroom and in the weight room. With the data driven/technology driven way the game is going, we try and track everything. Take your body weight and half it and that's how much water you should be drinking a day. Add 6-8 ounces of additional water for every 15-20 minutes of exercise Theres alot of people that can put together a great program for someone. But I think it takes a special person to sit down and have a conversation to get a grown man/woman to buy in to what they're talking about. Being able to communicate to everyone from all types of different backgrounds defines you as a a coach. We mold our coaching to the players, not the other way around. Resources Conscious Coaching- Brett Bartholomew New Functional Training for Sports- Michael Boyle PRI Driveline Baseball Eric Cressey Contact Twitter @j_kesel @p3_stl Instagran @j_kesel @p3_stl Website http://www.p3stlouis.com/ Email info@p3stlouis.com Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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David Sharp- Head Baseball Coach, Huntsville HS (AL) and 12U Team USA Mar 08, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes We expect our players to be tough, to play hard, and to compete but also be leaders in our school and community. We care about them as people more than we care about them as players. Kids start throwing in January and then all summer, so we completely shut arms from August until fall break halfway through October. Then we start our long toss program. We’ve seen a huge benefit from doing this and it’s been tremendous for our program. If a kid comes into our program and they haven’t left as a better man, we haven’t done our job. Any rule that you put into place, you have to be willing to lose your best player. Consistency is a big deal to us. Nothing infuriates me more than wasted time at practice. We play music, we have fun, and we don’t have 4 hour practices just to say we practiced for 4 hours. We’re going to be fast paced and get after it. Resources Vanderbilt University Energy leadership- Bruce Schneider The mental game of baseball- Harvey Dorfman Contact @davidsharp455 Facebook IG d4sharp D4sharp@gmail.com Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Jozef Frucek- Founder of the Fighting Monkey Baseball Practice Mar 01, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes I love baseball but it's something I had never done in my life. That allowed me to look from the outside and get a fresh look on why I think the best players are getting injured so much and what could be improved in their training. Diversity breeds immunity. Every great system also creates great deficiency. Most people think strength is always the answer. But we believe there are many things that come before strength. We first work with coordination, then when we get more organized we find a rhythm. Then that rhythm leads us to more kinetic potential and kinetic potential leads to power exploration. Power exploration then leads us to strength training. We want baseball players bodies to work in one rhythmic unit spending less energy on moving and putting more energy on where to react properly and making the right decisions. My background is in art, and what is the most important thing in art? Staying creative. We need to always stay creative and find new alterations We all need to improve our training methods. We're kind of sleeping there because we have good training methods. What blocks us just being good to getting better? We need to be pushed to look past what is obvious. Resources Fighting Monkey Baseball Contact https://fightingmonkey.net/ Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Clay Van Hook- Assistant Baseball Coach, University of Oklahoma Feb 22, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes What typically happens is players get into a game and the game speeds up. So what are we doing as coaches to help them slow the game down. A lot of times we preach that but we don’t teach it. We speed up practice so much that the game slows down. One thing that Coach Garrido and Coach Graham had in common that really resonated with me was that we got into this business to be teachers. To teach these young men to be better people, ballplayers, brothers, and husbands. We typically have 3 objectives First and foremost we’re going to work individually with each player and look at them as individuals Next we’re going to work collectively (as a team) Then we’re going to work competitively We have to be well rounded. There’s so many different ways to win ballgames. We owe it to our players to give them different skills. At the end of the day if we have the chance to go to Omaha and we have to get a bunt down but the player can’t do it, if we haven’t given them the necessary skills to do that, thats on us. Same thing with a runner at third and less than 2 outs. We’re all in this together. At times, coaches want to build walls to separate themselves. Our goal should be to build relationships for 30 years. I didn’t get into coaching to win baseball games. In reality are we defined by that? Yes. But I think its important to understand that when we take the result out of the equation, we start to grow as a coach and as a person. Resources Telephone (calling other coaches) Fiction books Contact @clayvanhook cvanhook@ou.edu Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Jono Armold- MiLB Pitching Coach, Spokane Indians Feb 15, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes For the most part we understand how to make players better and progressing them on the field, but the next frontier in sports and player development is understanding individual human behavior Great coaches have great discernment, They know when to push, when to pull, when to backoff, when to jump someone or when to let it simmer. I can talk mechanics and game strategy all I want, but if the athlete isn’t taking it and owning it, then its just my words. Their not engaged. Coaching is an incredibly dynamic social activity. It varies from situation to situation. Coaching isn’t just teaching, just psychology or just mentoring. Coaching is all of those. Its in our nature to try and create friendships and relationships. When kids want to hang out with you or stand by you when you’re hitting fungo and talk to you. Thats a sign of a great relationship. When it becomes an issue is when we can’t hold them accountable. If we can discipline when we need to, then its an issue. We need to be able to adjust our coaching strategies based on the environment, the athlete and the setting that you’re in Resources Slides (tools 1-5) Conscious Coaching Team of Teams What to say when you talk to yourself Contact Info @24jono jarmold@texasrangers.com Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Josh Heenan- President of Advanced Therapy & Performance Integrated Medicine + Strength Coach Feb 08, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes Our guys that are elite, whether thats pro/college, we can give them a 5 oz ball or a 14 oz ball, and they have the same arm mechanics every time. That allows us to see the repeatable mechanics. I think its important to make this distinction. We are building athletes that happen to play baseball, we’re not building just baseball players If we view our athlete their own unique being, then I think thats where we get really good results and really quickly. If you dont have any movement restrictions and you can hit all of the metrics of the 90 MPH formula wit h quality form you are exponentially less likely for injury and exponentially more likely to throw 90 I think as a coach we can all agree that 2 of our goals are, how can we keep everyone healthy and how can we win a ton of games. As far as in season lifts go, we lift heavy. We do a lot of 3x3. They get volume of work from playing, so we challenge them with power and get them out so they can go home and eat and recover. Resources Eric Cressey Spin Rate Driveline Local Strength coaches Contact @drheenan IG @josh_heenan joshheenan.com www.Advancedtherapyperfromance.com Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Stephen Mackey- CEO and Founder of 2 Words Character Development Program Feb 01, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes My coach in middle school said 4 words that changed my life and those 4 words were ‘Get on the line’. In that moment I found out what discipline was. Discipline is doing what we don’t want to do today, to get what we want tomorrow. I liked to think I was special, but it was our coaching staff that was special. My coaches taught me how to make choices, they taught me responsibility, they taught me that what the statistics said didn’t have to become who I was unless I chose, and that mindset of taking responsiility changed everything for me.” My life was changed by my high school coaches sand I want to help coaches do that for their athletes.” There is so much power in giving a kid what they don’t don’t deserve. Give kids a second chance, but teach them what to do with that second chance. Sometimes coaches will give a kid a second chance, but don’t teach them what to do with that second chance. So what happens? The same thing they did the first time because they don’t know any different.” Are you more about who you are or what you do? If you are so wrapped up in what you do, then what happens if that gets taken away? Theres a lot of things in life that are optional if you want to be successful. Talent? Optional. The right family? Optional. The right school? Optional. Genetics? Optional. But the one thing that is required to be successful? Sacrifice. Resources Tim Ferriss The Unbeatable Mind- Mark Divine Dave Campbell Podcast Coach 360 ABCA Calls from the clubhouse 1% Better- Joe Ferraro Plus 1 Podcast Pastor Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast Luke Norsworthy Rick Warren Contact @mackeyspeaks 2words.tv 2words.tv/gameplan Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Clay Cox- Head Baseball Coach, Paris Junior College (TX) Jan 25, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes We're going to have more husbands and fathers than we are major league baseball players. We're here to build young men, and when they leave this program they're going to be contributing members to society. We want guys that will fight at the drop of a hat. Guys that are tough, maybe were a little overlooked in HS. Guys that have some grit can play for us. One thing we teach our guys is manners. They'll be yes ma'am, no ma'am. Yes sir, no sir. They take their hats off when they walk into a building. They look you in the eye when they shake your hand and they say please and thank you. Most of our guys come from great families and we want to be an extension of them. People want come complain about this generation, but what are you doing about it? Young men want to please, and what you expect out of them is what you're gonna get from them. If you expect it, they'll do it. (on the green light mentality) We want to put pressure on defenses because catching and throwing is not as easy as it sounds. Pressure bursts pipes. We love multi-sport athletes. We can take an athlete and build a ball player. You can necessarily make a guy a better athlete but you can make him a better ballplayer. Resources Tim Ferris Autobiographies on coaches Twitter #ABCAchats Contact @coachcox19 ccox@parisjc.edu 254-855-5453 Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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Zach Brandon- Mental Conditioning Coach, IMG Academy (FL) Jan 18, 2018

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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes Our approach to teaching a new skill is education, application and support. We start with why its important, then we apply it to practice and then from there we figure out what works and what doesn’t for each kid. We say the breath is the MVP of the mental game. We spend a lot of time on teaching it. a concept that Ken Ravizza and Tom Hansen discuss. Learn it Do it Own it We invest a lot of time learning it, but can we actually practice the skills? We need to create a practice environment that does that. Theres a difference between a jungle tiger and a zoo tiger. Whats the life of a zoo tiger like? Spoon-fed, easy and comfortable. What’s life like in the jungle? Its stressful and your survival is on the line. Now lets compare it to baseball, which one is practice and which one is the game? We need to be able to create more jungle tigers and put our players in stressful situations. There’s a lot of time to think in baseball. Your mind can be your best friend of your work enemy. It can be a weapon or a weakness. In order to get behavior change, we have to get repetition and progression of skills. If I’m a coach and I do session in the classroom once a week, thats better than nothing. In that setting we expect the players to transfer those skills over to the field. If we only do those sessions in the classroom, we’re going to be setup for disappointment. Resources Heads up baseball Harvey Dorfman Ken Ravizza Ben Ehrlich Taylor Stutzman 1% Better Podcast ABCA Calls from the clubhouse Contact @MVP_Mindset Zachary.Brandon@img.com Website and Social Media sites for the show www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast

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