Kyle Wagner Notes
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- Are the people excited when they are with you?
- Hot practice, cold games.
- Games for the players.
- Practice becomes critical
- Something the kids could look forward to
- Broke up between macro and micro events (team and individual)
- Musts - “will they like this?”
- Sell them on the beauty of the game
- Macro event - runner on 3rd 1 out - live ball runner runs
- Fun game at the end to
- Too much information not enough inspiration (overcoaching)
- Youth coaching is to turn kids over for love of the game
- Implicit and explicit
- Implicit - no takes, no foul balls
- Down 3, 6 outs to go - play against the scoreboard
- Do the fun stuff while you are teaching
- Practice time is the coaches time, plan, prepare, and coaches on the same page
- Planning is more important than the plan
- Adaptable in the plan when the coach notices something is not right
- Get them out on time!
- Intent precedes content
- Embrace what they are not doing well and put them in a situation to do it
- Micro event - perfect and deliberate practice
- Macro event - train ugly, and don’t know what will happen. Find out what they are capable. Find failure and embrace it
- If the whole team is there deliberate practice won’t happen, more about competing and reps
- Development is not linear, its sequential
- Green light hitting - sequential hitting approach
- Core starts and then smaller muscles could work
- Aggression precedes discipline
- Train them to minimize choices
- Eliminate not swing to train them to elite velo
- Prove to me that you can be too quick
- Show me you can find your barrel on this BB
- You take a pitch because you can’t hit it hard
- Hitter to be able to move Laterally late
- Inside tee, soft toss away - no toss and hit off tee up the middle
- We want you to be a great hitter not great swinger of the bat
- Turn fast
- Posture
- Post chain
- Hands
- Lower half
- You need to be good enough to keep coming back
- Pre game
- Count hitting
- Don’t overcoach
- Lineup is seen more circular than linear
- Stacked it from top to bottom with best hitters
- 4th batter should strikeout least often due to so many runners being on
- 3rd hitter high velo and great eye
- Every manager deserves the right to intuition
- Pitchers need to get swing and missed in the zone and hitters need to eliminate swing and misses in the zone
- Who is owning the strike zone
- Exit velo coupled with launch angle (barrel %)
- Pitchers - weak contact and how often get swing and misses
- Pitching independent fielding
- Training pitchers more on the game mound
- Visualize on the game mound
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