Posts Tagged ‘softball training’


Mom Saves Son’s Season (could you?)

Hi: Here’s a good story — I got it yesterday from a mom who used the Play Big principles to “save” her son’s season. DISCLAIMER: Coaches and parents should know Gina Parris already was a trained tapper before Play Big (ginaparris.com), so I can’t say these results are “typical,” but I believe it is very [...]

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Great in Practice, But ….

Just a quick shout out today for a young player I’m coaching who is getting a taste of a wonderful lesson. (I’ll of course tell you the lesson, but it won’t mean that much to you. We have to experience things, get them into our bones, not just our cortex to really make a difference.) [...]

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Be Strong Up THIS Middle to Win

Last night on the field coaching my son’s team I got reminded of one of my own lessons. “LET’S GO!” I yelled as players dragged from one station to the next. I then had a blessed moment of self-awareness… In chess the goal of the opening moves is to control the center four squares. If [...]

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Play Big Wins Best In Show

I had so much fun in Anaheim meeting several of you. Thank you to those who stopped by my booth. It was an enormously gratifying and energizing few days because of the feedback on PLAY BIG and my other programs. I’ll share some of the feedback next week — I recorded several people talking about [...]

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Number 1 Coaching Tip Of All Time

The #1 coaching point of all time is FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT. I’m getting ready to launch my new coaching program tomorrow and thought I’d share one example of what I want… Here’s an email I got from a player about my FREEDOM program (formerly called 201) See if any of the starred items [...]

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GOTTA TAP! Baseball Coaching at the Next Level

“This week of practice has been amazing! I can’t believe how much fun I had.” “He’s 110% better. It’s truly amazing.” “I haven’t had trouble throwing since we spoke.” ———————- These are just a few comments I heard in the past week from players and parents of players I coach. I’ll tell you how you [...]

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You Must Focus on ___________.

“Pay for Results” I decided on a “pay only if you like it” offer for my youth program whilst reading the paper this morning. The columnist said “there is surprising agreement in the health care field about what needs to be done to fix health care in this country… shift the focus to paying for [...]

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Surprising Fix for Overstriding…

The memorial service was Tuesday. Thank you to all of you who wrote back to me after my email about my fried John passing last week. And to those who thought of him and me whether you wrote or not. And to those of you who read the email and then thought of yourself and [...]

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