Ahead Of The Curve with Jonathan Gelnar

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes It pays to be a winner. And it pays to be a loser too, just not the kind of payment you want. Competing does not just mean competing against another person, its also competing against yourself to get better. You may be having a bad day but Ken (Ravizza) used to say all the time to “Give me 100% of your 50% today.” Tha...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes Everyone wants to be data driven and science based but skill acquisition science is the science that all of this is undergirded by. Its not that you should never use verbal cues its just that words mean different things for different people. There’s no such thing as a best swing, they’re all snowflakes and every singl...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes Having played for Jerry (Weinstein) and coached with 11 (Mike Martin), its a constant learning experience with those guys and both have an uncanny ability to know whats going to happen in the game before it happens Communication and having a plan in the fall is vital, especially with incoming freshmen. We tell them 'I...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Contact Info @AHmulebaseball Facebook jThompson@ahisd.net Contributors @coachbennyb @NWBandits Daryl Hernandez @BKERA_IRISH_RKG @Maciejewski24 @JeffSherman26 @CoachWilliams Website and Social Media sites for the show  www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes We want to train efficient, explosive, multi planer, multi joint movements to create explosive athletes. We're looking at the spectrum of athlete and where they need the most work depending on their experience and where they’re at in their career. There’s so much to mechanics and its so much fun to try and dig through...

Subscribe on iTunes  Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Google Play Quotes No two athletes are the same, but a vast majority of amatuer hitters need to develop batspeed Young hitters are "cued" so much to put the ball in play, that they don't develop the coordination to move fast and swing with intent. Baseball hitting is one of the only skills in the world that trains in an environment ...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Daws We want everything to be player driven, once you make something important to you it now becomes yours As coaches, we know that players have to acquire certain skills, but players need to establish what they want to work on as well. We want them to be their best coach. We have to make sure our players are moving properly...

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Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes I think my why when I first started was winning ballgames and now all of my focus is on impacting young men. We raise pitch counts by swinging I often get asked, "what's you're two strike approach?" we don't have one I don't have a staff that works for me, i have a staff that works with me You never know wha...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes Baseball is going to be data driven and we as high school coaches have to evolve. We have to know our players. We have to know who can do what, where and how and what they're good at because everyone learns and develops differently. A great program starts at the home We take these at bats, throw these pitches, and fie...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes 3 years into coaching I tried to forget everything I knew about hitting. Now I try and continue to make sure everything I do makes sense, is backed up by video and biomechanical movement. There’s a better way to develop players in a team setting. We want our swing to be such that we launch it based on reaction, not an...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes The more I learn, the less I know. Its really interesting to look at this 4 things during an entire season. Energy  Soreness Stress Sleep We need to educate athletes on what should be done outside of practice and games so that it can create a world where the athlete is recovered and ready to play everyday Alot of kids...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Diamyn Hall Suggestions 360 Leader Culture Code Talk like Ted The Leader Phrase Book Talent is never enough 7 habits of highly effective people The team captains leadership manual   Social Media for Diamyn Instagram Twitter Facebook Leadership resources Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast Brian Kight Focus 3 Brian Cain Stephe...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Recover for baseball: Key concepts, thoughts, and practical applications by Dr. Stephen Osterer Coupon for $15 off- AOTCrocks Quotes You can get away with throwing year round as long as we’re managing how much throwing we’re actually doing. I take the vantage point of pitchers being a lot less fragile than we give them credi...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes Are you looking to increase practice performance or are you looking for skill transfer into the game? We want to replicate the game as much as possible and help our players to determine what movement works best for them given their body type, flexibility and mobility and perception of whats happening in their environm...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes Training is a trial and error process I was on the low part of the totem pole walking on in college, but it kept me hungry. I also got to see everyday that the other guys weren't superhuman. They were either just a little bit bigger, a little bit stronger, better mobility or better mechanics. It wasn't just a genetic...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play Contributors this week @diamondbbclub @codbra @brose2344 @rweaver23 @Gawbage29 @HyattCraig @jleroux33 @gmanoneone @SHS_baseball @NYFrank27 Alan McDougal Resources Cody Atkinson at UTRGV Wes Brooks Episode- MBP Craig Hyatt Episode Trent Otis Team Stuff Dan Heefner ABCA (both of them) Nino Giarratano (San Francisco ) Offset BP J...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes Whatever it is in life you are going to do, you need to be fully engaged in it We post everything. Either on social media for motivation and celebration or in the locker room so that kids always know where they stand. They also get to learn their game and how it can benefit the team. At the end of every season when we...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes There's a difference between kids who play baseball and baseball players More than anything we believe in individuals. We believe that the only thing you can do wrong as a coach/trainer is to make everyone do the same thing. We need to figure out what the players need and not just what it is that we want to teach them...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes It's not just about putting time in the weight room and on the field, it's a lifestyle. You've gotta make sure your priorities are right in the kitchen, in the classroom and in the weight room. With the data driven/technology driven way the game is going, we try and track everything. Take your body weight and half it...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes  We expect our players to be tough, to play hard, and to compete but also be leaders in our school and community. We care about them as people more than we care about them as players.  Kids start throwing in January and then all summer, so we completely shut arms from August until fall break halfway through October. T...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes I love baseball but it's something I had never done in my life. That allowed me to look from the outside and get a fresh look on why I think the best players are getting injured so much and what could be improved in their training. Diversity breeds immunity. Every great system also creates great deficiency.    Most pe...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes What typically happens is players get into a game and the game speeds up. So what are we doing as coaches to help them slow the game down. A lot of times we preach that but we don’t teach it. We speed up practice so much that the game slows down.  One thing that Coach Garrido and Coach Graham had in common that really...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play   Quotes  For the most part we understand how to make players better and progressing them on the field, but the next frontier in sports and player development is understanding individual human behavior Great coaches have great discernment, They know when to push, when to pull, when to backoff, when to jump someone or when to l...

Subscribe on iTunes    Subscribe on Stitcher   Subscribe on Google Play Quotes Our guys that are elite, whether thats pro/college, we can give them a 5 oz ball or a 14 oz ball, and they have the same arm mechanics every time. That allows us to see the repeatable mechanics. I think its important to make this distinction. We are building athletes that happen to play baseball, we’re not building just...