Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Optimizing Torque

The biggest key to a fast pair of hands is being able to get your hips OUT OF THE WAY. This is what makes the hands appear to be fast when in actuality, the speed through the zone is actually initiated by how fast your hips can rotate. 

Getting the hips to rotate is as simple as getting the back foot turned faster, but is it possible to generate even MORE speed? How?

Check out this week's blog post to learn how to get your hips moving a lot faster so that you too can hear more coaches and scouts talking about how fast your hands are!!!




Friday, May 3, 2013

Educational Hitting

As we have become more and more technologically advanced as a society, we seemed to have moved further away from the small things that help us to continue our advancement. Multiply that by sport and those things that make us better become even MORE scarce-- and that is education.

One of probably the most important parts of life and understanding the world around us is being able to open a book and have the knowledge at our fingertips. For this week's blog, Raphael goes into the importance of using the tool of literature to become better players.

Enjoy this week's blog and if you have any great baseball books, feel free to send them in to us or suggest them at our Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/UnmatchedPerformance