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Team Arm Development Problem
OK, coaches, I need help with developing the arms of our HS program. The last few years, we’ve used the basics from the Jaeger long toss program. Some of the boys progressed nicely while the progress of others was quite disappointing. We do have...
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Best of the 757 High School Athlete Showcase!
Velocity Sports Performance, in conjunction with Nike, SPARQ, Z104 and the YMCA, is launching the First Annual Best of the 757 Athlete Showcase! The inaugural Best of the 757 is a community event celebrating all of the high school athletes from...
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Bio-Mechanical Aspects of the Kinetic Chain In The Swing
I figured there had to be a place for this discussion.Many aspects of human movements in sport can be readily understood by Newtonian rigid-body mechanics. Many of these laws and biomechanical principles, however, are counterintuitive to a lot of...
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Multi-Sport Athletes
What is your opinion on kids playing multiple sports in high school? I have a son that will be entering high school this fall, and he has shown potential in football, track, wrestling, and baseball. He’s also interested in giving basketball a...
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Stalker Sport w/ display For Sale
Stalker Sport with display board. Also includes battery handle and charger. All in A-1 condition.$900 firm.
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Tourney Sport USA
Does anyone know anything about this group? My son was invited to go to Hawaii in December for a tournament. It cost $3000+ for plane tickets, lodging, and so on. We recieved a packet from the HS school coach yesterday and he would spend a week in...
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A&M
I'm sure with all the high school play off hype that this has been over looked by the faithful. I was wondering, what gives at A&M? If you know of or actually know Coach Johnson, you know that there are few coaches out there that know and teach the game like he does. I have had the good fortune of knowing him, (my dad was a SWC umpire for 18 years), ever since he was an assistant for Tom Chandler and in my opinion there may be no finer human being coaching this sport than he. You can throw...
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Why Oh Why.....
I have been coming to this site for a few years now. I have learned many new ideas and techniques that have helped me better serve my players as their coach. The one thing that evades my mind is why are their so many on here that think their way is...
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New to The Board--Quick Hello
I just joined the board and didn't know where to get started, until I saw the Ladies only area. I'm not a mother to a player like many of you seem to be, but a girl that's been surrounded by it thanks to older brothers and a father who can't get...
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Baseball shape - two sport athlete.
2013 plays football too. He has received several personal invites to Fall College camps. Obvously the stakes are higher this fall. I believe he has not met some of these coaches. They have sought him out through word of mouth I assume...but have not...
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Talent Withering? Time for a Change?
Here is a link to an article in today's Miami Herald bemoaning the (chose your own derogatory adjective here) 25 game limit on high school baseball in Florida.Talent withering with so few games to playThe reporter, Joseph Goodman, is relatively new to...
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Racist Coaches
I believe that healthy non-attacking debate is good and I disagree with the closing of the previous post on the Oklahoma baseball situation.I do not believe it is OK to have racist coaches or make racist statements at any level of any sport. Several...
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MyInstantReplay.com Marketing/Recruiting Site
I was just wondering if anyone has heard of or used MyInstantReplay.com recruiting website? I just found the site the other day and was looking around it. It offers a place to post all your information and then allows you to email it to any college...
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NCAA Violations DIII
Are these violations? I am new so I need some help.#1. Can 4 athletes transfer from a 2 year NJCAA DIII College to a NCAA DIII College and immediately practice and then play a full season. The athletes were not enrolled at the College until 1 month...
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Waste Of Money
UIL: 2 tested positive for steroids Two of 10,117 Texas high school athletes tested positive for steroids during the first wave of tests between February and June, the University Interscholatic League said Tuesday.UIL spokeswoman Kim Rogers said that...
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How a coach found players...
in this case they found him! This is a long post, but I thought it was worth the time.A lot of times, on this site, peeople ask how they can be discovered and there is an adundance of good information provided about that. In speaking with a local...
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Son will be going to a brand new HS
I am in a total quandry about the future scholarship opportunities of my son, I could realy use the advise of some BTDT parents! Please bear with me as I give you some background.Our soon to be 8th grader will be going to an established HS for his...
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draft, the business side of baseball, including the dark side
from a big fan of the sport - first my congrats to all those players selected as that certainly is an accomplishment - even if your position slipped for some reason the best of luck to those who come to terms and begin their pro career as well as...
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Part-time fall showcase?
So...if I concede that fall showcase baseball is a positive thing...let's get into a discussion of whether it is a good thing for a player to participate part-time while playing a fall sport in high school (like football)?I understand that for many...
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Pre-Screening Athletes
As a new member to this forum and briefly skimming through some of the older posts, I have yet to find a discussion about screening athletes before a workout program is implemented. There have been numerous posts and tons of advice given for many...
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Multiple Sports Or Not (times have changed)
I am a big fan of kids playing multiple sports. I believe it makes them better athletes in the long run. My son happens to play basketball and baseball. Although I have been watching a young man in our hometown since he played in our local LL all the...
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D-III Otterbein
What's going on with Otterbein's Baseball team?Heard rumblings over the weekend the Otterbein Athletic Dept has taken some drastic action against this year's team due to a "team incident", not many details avilable?Actions include cancelling the...
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Atmosphere
Baseball is my Numero Uno sport but there is something special about this time of the year when MARCH MADNESS begins to go along with the onset of spring baseball.My wife and I have for a number of years been fortunate to serve as Hosts for teams at...
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Get back to real Baseball
The best memories in baseball for me came years ago. Being on a team was great but there were never enough games. Many memories of heading out in the morning, breaking for lunch, and being late for dinner. And for the lucky few (who didn't get...
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First Scrimmage
Scrimmaging outside in Somersworth NH on March 27. I love this global warming thing. We scrimmaged Newmarket today it was 31 degrees out, but it felt like 71 because we were so glad to be outside playing the best sport ever invented. I hate practicing...
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No one can say VA high schoolers lack opportunities in D1 baseball
I believe few states offer as many D1 baseball programs to choose from...thirteen by my count. Is this the highest number for any state? If so, it may also be the highest number of Division 1 opportunities for a given sport within any one state. This...
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Solutions?
So none of the Manchester schools have a freshmen team? They also don't have any funds for assistant coaches from what I understand. If three class L schools don't have freshmen teams that is an awful lot of players that are not having places to play...
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Running Speed Natural or Taught?
I have been wondering ....As a general rule is running speed a natural attribute someone is born with or it is a "learned" tool?I watch some of these NFL players that are 275 pounds and up putting up some pretty incredible numbers as far as running...
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Who should get the Heisman?
This will be one of the shortest living threads of all time. But who do you think ought to get it?I like Colt McCoy for the Heisman and expect him to have a great NFL career. To be honest, I have never seen the defensive player from Nebraska play. I...
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Tiger Woods King Of All Sports?
I hate that I have no baseball topic but I have a question about Tiger Woods. And this has absolutely nothing to do with his "transgressions."Has there ever been an athlete, in any sport, that has had such a huge impact on their sport?Baseball...Babe...
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Holiday Greetings - from Umpire Moderators...
As we come to the end of the year and a few days prior to Christmas, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the HSBBW web family for another wonderful year. The opportunity to come together, discuss, share and help others through this sport...
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Post college success stories
Lots of good stuff out there about young men who chose to attend college and play baseball and having lots of success in careers on and off the field, I know of some folks here whose son's success stories are pretty impressive, but they don't like to...
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VBall Nat'l Championship
Just in case you're going stir crazy from NO baseball and TOO much football...did any of you just catch the Volleyball National Championship between #1 Penn State (2 Time Defending Champions) vs. #2 Texas?OMG...What a sporting event to behold!Penn...
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PG Crosschecker article
PG Staff- I just read the article by Jim Ecker on the PGCrosschecker site about Ernie Harwell. Here is the link for those who would like to read it: http://www.pgcrosschecker.com/...le.aspx?article=2064 It is a fabulous account of a man who has...