30 Day Challenge – Follow Up At the beginning of April on my 1PW Weekly Blog I posted a 30 Day Challenge after watching this TED Talk by Matt Cutts. If you haven’t already watched it [...]

14 Things to STOP Doing to Yourself as a Coach or Player #1. Stop spending time with the wrong people. – Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.  If someone [...]

30 Day Challenge  When I work with programs I always challenge the players and coaches to work on their mental game by doing small things that are not difficult that anyone can do but that they [...]

Fundraising My goal for this blog has always been to give coaches ideas to improve their program and make it as well rounded as possible. Some weeks we discuss process based measurement, mental [...]

Everything You Could Possibly Want in a Player The following story was sent to me as an email by a friend of mine. Coach Joey Sato shared the amazing story of one of his former players and I [...]

GROUNDBALL SCRIMMAGE A few weeks back I gave you a way to measure your groundball efficiency during BP and last week we discussed a bunt scrimmage that you could use to help apply the pressure to [...]

Bunt Scrimmage We all know how important bunting has become with the recent changes in metal bats. It has changed the game which means we need to change our approach to the way we practice it. I [...]

My Favorite Animal Do you want to know what my favorite animal is? I bet you can’t guess what it is. Click the following video and you will see. MY FAVORITE ANIMAL Probably not what you [...]

Measuring the Process: Line Drives + Groundballs > Strikeouts + Flyballs All baseball and softball coaches can agree that a groundball is a tougher play to get an out on than a flyball. This [...]

THE STORY OF WARWICK A man was lost while driving through the country. He tried to read a map, he accidentally drove off the road into a ditch. Though he wasn’t injured, his car was stuck deep in [...]