Jon Fitzpatrick Notes
Bio
- Current Assistant AD and Head Baseball coach at Indianola High School in Indianola, Iowa
- Starting 2nd season (30-11)
- Below .500 year before
- Kasey Blake, Brady Blake is junior
- Former Head Baseball Coach at Martensdale St. Marys (public school)
- 10 years, 12 years total
- Part of 88 win streak as an assistant coach (under Justin Dehmer)
- 9 of 10 years as state finalist
- Ethan Westfall played professionally (Rockies)
- 3rd year as a Mental performance coach
- Author of Don’t Shoot the Young Buck: Living in the Present Moment
- Worked with 3 college teams - Concordia, Central College, Simpson College
- Multiple High school teams in all sports
- Provides 1 on 1 coaching to many athletes
Notes
- The mental game is a separator
- Brian Cain total immersion
- Mental minute at the beginning of practice
- Awareness, strategy, action
- Build in routines during practice
- Practice green lights, yellow lights, red lights
- Release routine - physical, breath, self talk
- Practice striking out
- End of practice journal - well, better, how or start, stop, continue to reflect on themselves, the team.
- Well, better, how for more of a weekly to kick start your week
- Start, stop, continue post game to get us closer to where we want to be at the end of the year
- Does the kids thinking align with the coaching staff thoughts
- APE - Attitude/Appearance, perspective/preparation, energy/effort
- Be clark kent and turn into superman when you get to the ball field and change into your uniform. Journaling post game helps them turn back from Superman to clark kent
- APE - stuffed animal to visualize APE
- Signal lights
- Green lights - GO! When things are going smooth,
- Yellow lights - caution - pump the brakes or speed up through the light
- Red light - STOP or you will crash
- Recognize as respond to get back to green light
- What does our body language look like in green lights?
- How does that change when adversity hits?
- Where is our focus?
- What does our self talk?
- Release language
- Get big - take a deep breath on a focal point,
- GOOD
- SO what!
- First place to start with team was signal lights, then build routines based on those lights
- Shadow bullpens - no ball, just visualize, and lost in a routine
- Leadership drives culture, culture drives behavior, behavior leads to results (performance pathway)
- Go from coach fed leadership, to player led leadership
- Created 4 key principles to culture
- PETE - process, energy/effort, trust, excellence
- Define each of the principles
- What you do on the daily basis will get you the results
- Everything we talk about in baseball goes way beyond the field
- Person, student, and player and what is “above the line” and define it, there is no grey area
- “Was that above the line or below the line?” simple question to ask and hold each other accountable to
- Carving out time every single day
- What is driving your program? What are those things we are going to be really good at?
- What are your core values? What do they look like on the field
- Signal lights
- Strategies to handle signal lights
- 3-8 hitting chart - hard hit ball chart
- Defined each number of hard hit and find out which numbers you hit when you are going good
- What works best for you, and then get really good at that!
- Pitchers first pitch % (60-67%), and quality innings
- Figure out what pitcher is really good at and what they need to go with in certain situation
- A3P - After 3 pitches is the ball in play or is it a 1-2 count?
- Pitching is about being efficient due to pitch counts
- 2 out of 3 - 67% of at bats
- Reverse engineer what we want from our program
- Graduate
- State championship
- Get to the park
- Win sub state
- host/win a district
- Win the conference
- Go 1-0 today
- Everyone has that same goal, how are you going to get there? How are you going to separate yourself?
- www.coachfitzpatrick.com
- 515-339-5490
- Twitter - @Fitzpatrick_MP
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