Will Marshall Notes
BIO
- Current Operations Coordinator and Lead Pitching Instructor for 108 Performance in Tustin, California
- “Bridge the Gap” coaches convention clinician and organizer
- Former Professional player in the United Shores Professional Baseball League
- Former Select ball organizer and commissioner of Texas Wiffle Ball League
- Graduated and played at the University of Dallas
- Challenges the status quo to help grow the game
Notes
- Big concepts/first principles of movement/training- don’t get lost in the weeds
- Nothing your coach ever told u was wrong, just may not have been right for you
Show notes
- Youth players do not have to talk about movements because they are the best movers.
- Make it a game, make it fun, have constraints
- Learn what the kids believe, and then go to work on
- If you were to teach me how to hit what are the most important aspects of hitting
- Close your eyes and put yourself in a situation and tell me a time when you felt your best. Describe it for me, and put it in your own words, write it down. Then each rep should be trying to achieve that feeling. Reference that each day to see where they are at.
- Pretend like you do not know, and keep digging to get to the core beliefs - get an understanding of how their brain works
- Take 2 weeks to get to know your kids and really breakdown see what they know
- Get a look inside their snow globe
- Big difference of what needs to happen and what the player needs to feel to make it happen
- Analyze what in the movement is wrong, analyze his belief, and then find the right cue based on that athlete
- Constantly evaluate my system, and see how I can make it better
- If you don’t give the honest feedback, you are telling them you do not care
- Let go of the cues, feels that worked for us, because our kids may not understand them
- If it works for the kids, it works!
- Technology is just the numbers to match what we used to feel and see
- If the player is not moving well, you have to teach the movement
- Flavors of ice cream - the best drills that work for you, do them, and not all the rest
- Stay big principle and concept to help teach movement and get results
- Be objective as possible when looking at a hitters, pitchers movements
- When do you need to create the most force on the ball?
- When do you need to create the most force in the ground with my back leg?
- Take context outside of baseball
- Big picture, and then play the WHY game to peel back the layers
- If the player did not interpret did not the cue the way you wanted to, then you need to go back to the concept/principle.
- Do my players understand where I am coming from?
