Any Oldtimers remember Teacherman?

I remember!

That is incredible. Thank you for sharing that.

Thanks for sharing, PGStaff!  Very good stuff.

Great story!

this is great!  thx!

WOW!  I imagine there's lots of searches for "teacherman" posts about now!

MomLW posted:

WOW!  I imagine there's lots of searches for "teacherman" posts about now!

Indeed! And there were a lot of arguments about hitting!

First off, welcome back PG - no idea where you've been but I am glad you are back.

Had no idea Richard was Teacherman but my son knows him well and has taken lessons from him.  Richard is a consultant with Coastal Carolina baseball so there are other people out there who are using his services.  I believe Ian Happ of the Cubs is another follower of Richard.  Baseball is a small world indeed.

Very cool story. As someone who only found this "little" site about 6 months ago, I'm amazed at how this site has and still does include some pretty influential people in the game of baseball (and that definitely includes you PG). Thanks again to all of you who share your knowledge and keep this site going to help kids you've never met. 

Kyle B, Tewks, Wallenbrock can be added to the internet instructors that went "Big Tyne". There are others with an infamous rep, but will only be mentioned in whisper.

Great share... thanks PG

Hitting Illustrated Clinic Here's a video of Richard describing his "second engine" philosophy. 

Zia2021 posted:

Very cool story. As someone who only found this "little" site about 6 months ago, I'm amazed at how this site has and still does include some pretty influential people in the game of baseball (and that definitely includes you PG). Thanks again to all of you who share your knowledge and keep this site going to help kids you've never met. 

You would be amazed how many people have passed through this site and how many relationships are intertwined.

I didnt visit the hitting forum that often but I will never forget Teacherman.

Thanks Jerry, great story.

Richard is still as controversial, just now to a larger audience on Twitter. In my opinion he has a good approach, but it seems pretty rigid and universal, and his style definitely rubs pretty much everyone the wrong way. 

I've done my best to stay out of this thread.  Lets not forget why he was banned here.  He not only changed his philosophies numerous times, and under multiple names, he also attacked members and their children including mine.  

Crazy! He also has quite the following on instagram! Amazing connection.

He is a little unhinged and doesn't know how to have a discussion without going into bully mode.  Funny though, if the only thing you knew about him was the video I posted earlier, you'd think he was a good conversationist and would be willing to discuss topics rationally... but that isn't the case.

Teacherman kept more threads going than anyone I can recall. He had numerous names over the years. Great find PG very interesting indeed.

After looking into his approach it is hard to disagree, however, I think it would only really play for those who are big & strong already. I feel if you taught his approach to youth players you would get almost 100% pop ups at best.