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Podcast Episode 005: Maximizing Baseball Practice Efficiency

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/cornerstonecoaching/CCA_Podcast_-_005_Maximizing_Practice_Time.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS     Maximizing the efficiency of baseball practices is one of, if not my favorite topic to discuss with coaches. The game of baseball is fighting a losing battle against other, more fast paced games in the age of instant gratification.  Coaches have to start […]

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Baseball Conditioning: Without a Weight Room

Every year, I get emails, texts and calls from our baseball alumni that they would like to come back and use our weight room over their Winter Break to keep up with their conditioning program. Assuming the weight room isn’t too crowded (which it usually is because we had 48 players in it every day […]

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CCA Podcast Episode 002: Playing College Baseball Part 2

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/cornerstonecoaching/CCA_002_Playing_College_Baseball_Part_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS  In part 2 of the Playing College Baseball Podcast we discuss what to look for in a college coach:       Playing college baseball can be a great experience, and can help shape the rest of your son’s life in a positive manner, but […]

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Opposite Field Hitting: Theory, Cues, and Drills (2 FREE Reports at the End)

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The ability to drive the ball to all fields becomes more and more important as a player gets older and pitchers begin to locate their pitches.  Show me a hitter who cannot hit the ball to the opposite field and I will show you a player whose time in the game is limited.   At […]

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Swing XP Power Series Practice Baseball Bats

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Cornerstone is pleased to bring you this blog by Coach Michael Kuebler of Colonial Baseball Instruction. Coach K is an expert in baseball training equipment and uses many training aids with his high school team and in his camps.  There’s a new baseball training aid on the market that will change the way many coaches […]

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Wanna Have a Catch?

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During the preseason, we get an hour and a half in a gym with 20+ players and one batting cage.   Maximizing our time is absolutely imperative in order to get our program implemented and to maximize the repetitions our players get in a short amount of time.   This download from Cornerstone will allow your […]

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A New Hitting Game

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“Win this pitch!”   That’s a line I say all the time during games.  We say it, and the kids understand what it means, but we don’t often practice it.   Then I had one of those “coaching moments.” You know that time when you have 30 minutes in the cage, you have run through […]

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My New Favorite Fielding Game

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Practicing baseball in a gym for 4 weeks will force you to get creative.  Those of you who have been following me, my blog, and my products over the past year and a half know that I have been making a huge push to make players more athletic and less robotic and mechanical.     […]

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What Makes a Good Hitting Drill?

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There are literally millions of hitting drills available on the web right now, many of them are good, but many of them are just plain counterproductive.  When you are a looking for a good hitting drill for your player or team, make sure it accomplishes one ore more of the following criteria.   1.) Promote […]

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Running an Effective Tryout

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Another blast of arctic air (temps down to -10) is barreling down on the Chicago this week.  To many of you that means hats and mittens, for me it means baseball season starts on Monday.   For those of you not from the north, this is, in fact, a common occurrence the week before  tryouts.  […]

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