Advanced Skills Camp McHenry Co.

my son recieved the same invite to the camp, but Creighton has also shown interst in him and he is going to attend. I only know that there is are hitting/catching/pitching portions of the camp.

pitcher25, has your son been in continuous contact with Creighton or was this letter his first letter from them?

As always, make sure you find out what are the advance skills that will be taught.

he recieved a previous camp letter, about 2 weeks ago he recived a letter saying they were intersted, and then he recieved the camp letter

P25, what are the advanced skills he lacks?

PB, my son is a pitcher and he really wants to increase his velocity

P25, he needs to throw 3 sets (15-20 per set, with 5 minutes in between sets)of 4 seam fast balls at distance of 70 to 90 feet (on a line) at maximum arm speed with proper technique and footwork 3 times per week in the off-season. In the off season do a number of roatational sets of exercises on the core. If your son is strong enough ad a medicine ball. I hope I just saved you some money.

Oh by the way, velocity is not an advanced skill

Great response P_ _ _, er. . .Playball

On increasing velocity, the advice by playball is pretty good. I would agree with it as long as the young man had a good solid 2-3 months off. It is really important that these guys take time off their arms. Also, in my experience, the only way to truly increase velocity is too decrease the time it takes to recover after a throwing session. the best way to do this is to implement a very good scapular resistance program coupled with a rotator cuff program. The medicine ball stuff is great also, so good call on that Playball2

If you can recover faster you can throw more, if you throw more you can throw harder.

Just my two cents, i am off to work now. But I love talking about this stuff.

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Originally posted by Playball2:
P25, he needs to throw 3 sets (15-20 per set, with 5 minutes in between sets)of 4 seam fast balls at distance of 70 to 90 feet (on a line) at maximum arm speed with proper technique and footwork 3 times per week in the off-season.

I would add that if you don't have a 70-90 foot lane, then using weighted balls from a shorter distance works equally well under proper supervision. Weight may be systematically increased during each session or gradually over the course of the throwing program. However, this approach assumes proper mechanics are already in place.

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Originally posted by Playball2:
P25, he needs to throw 3 sets (15-20 per set, with 5 minutes in between sets)of 4 seam fast balls at distance of 70 to 90 feet (on a line) at maximum arm speed with proper technique and footwork 3 times per week in the off-season. In the off season do a number of roatational sets of exercises on the core. If your son is strong enough ad a medicine ball. I hope I just saved you some money.

Nearly every college coach that recruited my son talked about increasing his core strength to add velocity. Now that he is there, core strength & flexiblity is highly emphasized as a part of his training regimine.

He has added significantly to his velocity in the last 18 months that he has been working core, along with other things, but I temper that with he was also a physically immmature 17 year old and his maturation may have an impact also.

CPLZ - What was his velocity at 17 and what is his velocity now?

Kirk was mid 80's guy at 17u, started going from mid 80's to upper 80's last Summer. Sometimes touching 90. I spoke with Coach Sottolano(Armys Coach) down in Jupiter this past Fall and he said he was sitting 90 and going up from there. He could not say enough good things about him.. CPLZ, you have good reason to be proud of your son.
Not only is he going to have a chance to play ball at the next level, the Westpoint education isnt going to hurt either!

Great job to all concerned. I understand that this was the second year that this camp with these colleges has been offerred in the area.

This was an extremely well run camp with coaches from Creighton (2), Purdue (2), Miami of Ohio, Valparaiso, St. Joe's and Iowa. The pitchers received a great deal of individual attention and the catcher workout was very through. Hitting in the afternoon was just as well organized and beneficial.

A cold day for sure, but it was well worth the effort.

CPLZ,

Coach Hamburg is coming this weekend from army if you guys wanted to stop down and see him.

He was just named the assistant coach of the year for DI. That whole staff is just tremendous. And Spark saying "the Westpoint education isnt going to hurt either!" is about the biggest understatement i have ever heard. You are pretty much set for life once you grad from there.

Coach Steele,
Thanks for the heads up, I just dropped coach Hamburg a note. Word is that everyone on the team loves Coach Hamburg. Kirk couldn't be more happy than he is working with him.

NCAA D1 season opens a month from today...but who's counting?

If the schedule permits, I might drop by.