Sports: Learning to Be Your Own Baseball Batting Coach

Learning to Be Your Own Baseball Batting Coach

Written by Coach John Peter

Check Yourself: Learning to Be Your Own Batting Coach

Use checkpoints to stop at given points of repparttar swing to observe & correct yourself.

NOTE: Learn to check yourself from repparttar 151138 feet up…every time. This will keep you from missing certain parts of repparttar 151139 swing and more easily allow you to remember all details.

Rest Position – How does it look, how does it feel? Are you comfortable? Is your weight about 40% front foot and 60% back foot? Are you on repparttar 151140 balls of your feet with your weight bearing on repparttar 151141 inside of your slightly flexed knees and again, repparttar 151142 balls of your feet? Hands about 4-6” from your body? Tall back side? Head equal distant between both feet, eyes level, so both eyes see repparttar 151143 ball?

Load Position – Take a negative move (this is when you “load” with your hands moving toward your back shoulder) and hands held high (at repparttar 151144 top of repparttar 151145 strike zone). Can you feel repparttar 151146 slight pull of muscles from your torso and upper body…like repparttar 151147 winding of a spring? Keep your stride shorter rather than longer! Hands go toward repparttar 151148 back of your body while front foot strides toward pitcher (some coaches will call this ‘walking away from your hands’).

Saunders to the Pistons, Larry to the Knicks

Written by John Onan

What it means to these two teams

Well, repparttar news of Larry Brown’s departure from Detroit and expected arrival in New York has finally come to pass. As expected, Flip Saunders, repparttar 151137 embattled former Minnesota Timberwolves coach has now taken repparttar 151138 help of a team that has reached repparttar 151139 NBA Finals repparttar 151140 last two seasons; winning it all in 2004.

First off, I already understand that Saunders in no Larry Brown; and that may be good news for repparttar 151141 Piston’s organization and their players. The focus should be on repparttar 151142 team and not on if repparttar 151143 coach is flirting with other teams for head coaching jobs and/or front office positions. The center of attention should remain on repparttar 151144 court, where this Pistons squad is proven winners. The core of this team is still very young and repparttar 151145 window remains wide open for more championships.

If Brown were to remain in Detroit, General Manager Joe Dumars would more of less be admitting that this team can’t win without him. And in return, this team would spend repparttar 151146 next season, and any thereafter with repparttar 151147 gypsy coach at repparttar 151148 helm, with repparttar 151149 prospect of Brown always curious whenever one of repparttar 151150 many NBA jobs open up for discussion.

Brown went as far to say about repparttar 151151 Knicks opportunity that it was his “dream job “. Well, by looking at repparttar 151152 Knicks roster of returnees, this dream could turn into a bad one relatively quick. With Stephon Marbury running repparttar 151153 show, repparttar 151154 “I” remains permanently ensconced in this team. Good luck Larry, getting Marbury to buy into repparttar 151155 “team consept” and playing defense. It has yet to be done by any coach ever to encounter a guy who still believes repparttar 151156 ballgame revolves around him. And before anyone compares Marbury to Brown’s guidance of a young Allen Iverson, he’s not even in A.I.’s league; never will be.

Isaiah Thomas continues to mismanage repparttar 151157 team and it’s finances, bringing in role players and expecting them to flourish in a town that will tell you exactly what they think of you if you’re not performing to those inflated expectations. Jerome James and Quentin Richardson are not repparttar 151158 answers to Isaiah’s frontcourt prayers. Channing Frye is a nice draft pick, but he won’t get repparttar 151159 ball unless he rebounds it, as long as Marbury and Jamal Crawford are launching jump shots.

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