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Kermit the frog said, “It’s not easy being green.” But on St. Patrick’s Day, there’s no better color to be! Everyone gets to be Irish for a day… Especially if you’re living in the great city of Chicago where St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated very seriously! So to all of our Irish Practice Pro Peeps, even if you’re only Irish for today, happy St. Patrick’s Day!
In keeping with our theme of Green… Let’s talk about the green lights of batting. Recently, in our “combo pitching and batting LIVE” classes, we talked about mental performance, which significantly impacts our physical game. Elite athletes know how to regulate their emotions. They do this by recognizing adversity when it happens -both the thoughts and the physical responses to those thoughts- which they are able to process and redirect to the Green.
So what does it mean to be “in the Green” as an athlete?
When we introduced batting to Practice Pro, it got a lot of people talking. More importantly, it got a lot of people swinging! Our young athletes have excelled on both sides of the plate over the last year with Lead Batting Instructor, Coach Marisa, and her knowledgeable and talented assistants. In this past Pre-Season session that is quickly coming to a close, we decided to try our hand with the live pitching and batting combo class, serving more of our high school aged athletes. This class has been a catalyst to many of our pitchers and hitters hurling and blasting their way into the high school season upon us.
It became evident quite quickly that Coach Marisa had a gift with reaching the high schoolers, motivating them to increase their pop times and power rankings. Not only did we see these metrics increase, but we saw a stretching of mindsets happening across our batters. Up at the plate, confidence and aggression tripled, causing epic battles with our versatile pitchers.
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There is a lot of softball pitching content on Instagram. Some of it is excellent. Some of it is recycled. And some of it is coaches trying to prove they are “right” while everyone else is “wrong.”
If you are serious about improving in the circle, you need to be intentional about who you follow.
Of course, our account is the best. We show you what actually happens inside a real pitching school. You see the methods we use, what real athletes look like as they develop over time, accomplishments from pitchers in our program, and practical drills and tips that we test across more than 20 classes per week. Everything we post is being used and refined in real time.