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Myrtle Beach Triple Crown Tournament

The Triple Crown tournament down in Myrtle Beach South Carolina was a blast! We have a bunch of stories, but I want to highlight our pitchers of course.

We played some of the best competition around! After doing some scouting before our first game, it was clear that teams were SCORING RUNS! 20-1, 12-0, 19-0! Young Guns pitchers for both our Navy and Carolina teams were able to neutralize those offenses. Here’s why:

100% of the teams we faced were cheating first pitch fastball! Our strategy was to go with offspeed early and attack with velocity INSIDE late. Most hitters were also cheating outside corner with their toes on the white line of the batter’s box! I give the boys a lot of credit. They pitched at a very high level. I say that because this strategy increases the risk of walks, unless you hav…

This week’s article is about discipline and trust in your program. I train a lot of different kids. They are all shown a hip routine, spine routine, neck routine, shoulder routine, chest, bands, plyos, throwing etc. About 3% of them are able to come in and get right to work OR do the extra reps at home when no one is watching. Today we will highlight the work ethic of Joey Martino and Connor Hafto.

Joey Martino: Joey is a very smart kid. He’s able to listen and do what he’s told the first time. If he doesn’t understand he will ask for a demonstration, and then it clicks. He’s got it. This week Joey won an award at his school called the Gold Fitness award. Only 1 was given out to his grade which he received, and only 4 in the entire school! Joey is a great athlete, but…

Almost a year in the making. Colt Troilo started training with me last July. I approcahed his mother in my gym parking lot! Four Seasons in Glassboro, the best! Cait Troilo was a division 1 catcher, so I was very excited to work with her son! Colt was tough to work with at first. Tough is an understatement...he used to throw his bat and baseballs at me! He takes a while to warm up to people so we struggled to communicate in the beginining. It took a month before he would fist bump me! Here we are 10 months latrer and I can't even explain the changes he's made. Colt went from throwing 5/10 pitches NOWHERE NEAR the strike zone to being able to consistently throw strikes. I mean we would go to the park and play fetch instead of catch. When hitting, he used to swing and miss maybe…

Exciting topic this week. Self-talk! Some of you know I am currently studying to get my NASM CPT. The new Chapter I am reading is about Behavioral Coaching. So far the chapter has covered data tracking, goal setting, and motivation. But the negative self-talk jumped out to me. As an ex-collegiate athlete, I've been there many times. Hopefully some of the tips from the chapter and my past experiences give your kids some strategies to flip negative self-talk into positive.

Strategy 1: Avoid "Not"

Some common phrases when athletes are struggling are "I can't do this" or "I'm not good enough." Simply removing the "not" from the sentence completely flips the meaning and state of mind. "I can do this", "I am good enough", "I'm the best", "I worked hard for this, I'm ready." Give it a shot. It seems like players these days almost find it cool to throw…