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The Gang Leader: Self-Organization of Four Menacing Velo Robbers
Pablo Escobar, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Carlo Gambino, Jessie James, John Dillinger. What do they have in common? They’re all notorious gang leaders — criminals who influenced their underlings to commit crimes against humanity. Say what you want about the morality of their endeavors, but In their respective hay days, they were all highly successful, and their organizations functioned efficiently. However, in all cases, changes in their business environment (i.e., attention from The…
Better Late Than Ugly: Two-Strike Hitting
Last month my business partner of 19 years, our CFO/COO, Amy Marsh and I were invited to New York City for the East Coast premiere of director Frank Chen’s highly acclaimed documentary, Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story. The movie chronicles the inspirational journey of Taiwanese superstar Chien-Ming Wang’s resurgence and returns to the big leagues. The Texas and Florida Baseball Ranches are featured in the film. Wang’s credits his work with at the Ranch as playing a pivotal role…
Is The Tap Connector™ Throwing Club The Bomb?
Turns Out The Germans May Have Had This Throwing Thing Figured Out My middle son, Ryan is a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. He’s a tank platoon leader stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. One day during his initial tank training in Fort Benning, Georgia, Ryan was instructed to report to the firing range for grenade training. The instructor, tasked with teaching the young officers in Ryan’s class the fine art of grenade throwing, was a salty First Sergeant from Macon, Georgia named Jedediah Jones.…
How To Become a Knight
In 2011, The Kingdom of The Netherlands baseball team entered the World Cup as heavy, heavy underdogs. I mean HEAVY … as in even their own national media gave them no chance. The Dutch media sent exactly zero representatives to Panama to cover the tournament. In retrospect, The Netherlands had some talent. Three players, Didi Gregorius, Xander Boegarts, and Johnathan Schoop would go on to play in the major leagues, but at the time of the tournament, they were all in the low minors. When…
How To Throw 95 Without Getting Hurt
Did you see the 2018 MLB Allstar Game? If you did, then you noticed one common denominator on both sides of the ball — POWER! On the offensive side, there were twenty hits — 10 homers. And on the mound, every pitcher was bringing straight fuel! Here are the maximum velocities of every pitcher in the game. Sale 100.7 mph Vazquez 99.9 Diaz 99.4 Foltynewicz 99.0 Severino 98.9 Treinen 98.9 deGrom 98.8 Scherzer 98.5 Snell 98.2 Jeffress 98.1 Morton 97.9 Jimenez 97.5 Hader 97 Berrios 96.9…
The Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim Are Coming To The Summit! Are You?
By now you’ve probably heard about the rockstar list of presenters we’ve booked for the Florida Baseball Ranch®/Dutch Baseball Skill Acquisition Summit. If you think that list is impressive, you’ll be amazed at the credentials of some the registered attendees. At the time of this writing, we have commitments from at least 10 MLB organizations and from some of the most highly regarded movement specialists and skill acquisition scientists in the industry. I’m betting the conversations…
Welcome To TWITs Anonymous
Welcome to TWITs anonymous. My name is Randy Sullivan, and I am a recovering TWIT coach. For years my coaching style involved a traditional style that has come to be popularly known as TWIT Coaching. Oh, you haven’t heard about TWIT coaching? Let me explain: Here’s the basic formula for TWIT coaching: T: We Tell the player how to perform a skill (maybe even demonstrate it.) W: We Watch him do it. I: We stop Immediately Inform of all the things he did wrong. T: Then we Tell him…
Why Alex Creel Wouldn’t Miss The Skill Acquisition Summit For Anything
Alex Creel is the owner of the highly regarded Golden Spikes Baseball Club and K3 Pitching in Sacramento, CA. He has been a “ranch guy” and a good friend for many years. Alex was among the attendees at the 2015 Texas Baseball Ultimate Pitching Coaches Boot Camp when Frans Bosch rocked the US baseball community with an epic presentation on skill acquisition and motor learning. The impact on Alex’s business has been significant and measurable — significant in its impact…
