What if we could use the awkward period of puberty to our advantage? I think puberty & maturation is an area of hitting development that is often overlooked. I won’t bore you w/ the details on how this thought experiment (more accurately, an observation & discussion) developed. Let’s just skip that part & get rightContinue reading “Coaching A Moving Target: Hitting Development From Adolescence To Adulthood”
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ReThinking Ocular Dominance
Do eye patches have any application past our weird hitting experiment? It’s been almost 4 years since we researched & experimented w/ this idea of training ocular dominance in hitters at Heavy Mettle. I am still convinced that it is widely misunderstood & overlooked. This season, something peaked my curiosity to revisit this idea. IContinue reading “ReThinking Ocular Dominance”
Thought Experiment: Learning Styles
I was a teacher for 10 years & I went through college classes explaining Learning Styles in detail. I attended many of Professional Development Days explaining why we needed to “Differentiate” our instruction. Diversify our teaching methods so you could accommodate the Learning Styles of every student. I still remember filling out lesson plans explainingContinue reading “Thought Experiment: Learning Styles”
Neuroscience and Pitching: Building Better Command Training (A Thought Experiment)
I was a pitcher in high school and slated to be one in college as well. Being a pitcher comes with the universal cue of “Just Throw Strikes”, as if it were just that easy. I always had pretty decent command and on several occasions I was informed by coaches that I threw too manyContinue reading “Neuroscience and Pitching: Building Better Command Training (A Thought Experiment)”
Neuroscience and Hitting: Part 2 Ear Plugs, White Noise, and Bat Speed
Disclaimer: Some information & data has been purposely left out due to the proprietary nature of this training method. We as a staff feel comfortable sharing this information as the majority of what is explained here is publicly available knowledge. We just pieced ideas together. Our first attempt at having a hitter use ear plugsContinue reading “Neuroscience and Hitting: Part 2 Ear Plugs, White Noise, and Bat Speed”
Neuroscience and Hitting: Part 1 Vision
Key Points -Monocular occlusion training optimizes gaze performance of novices in complex skills -Monocular occlusion training improves kinetic visual acuity & binocular fusion -Having access to speed & time of a moving object improves object location predictions -Visual working memory can contaminate visual perception -Visual perception is 80% memory based -Improving visual working memory wouldContinue reading “Neuroscience and Hitting: Part 1 Vision”
BASEBALL BAT ATTACK ANGLES AND THEIR IN-GAME CORRELATIONS
Thesis Committee Members Dr. Youngmin Yoon- Eastern New Mexico University Assistant Professor, Kinesiology Dr. William Andersen- Eastern New Mexico University Professor of Physics Dr. Weizhong Tian- Eastern New Mexico University Assistant Professor of Statistics External Member: Dr. Alan Nathan- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Emeritus of Physics Abstract The proper way to swing aContinue reading “BASEBALL BAT ATTACK ANGLES AND THEIR IN-GAME CORRELATIONS”
Baseball Thought Experiments 