Building the Future of Youth Sports Through Education, Fun, and Community.
Self & Body Awareness
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Your Drip is Making You Look Dumb
The baseball swag industry has studied MLB players and is now selling their look to their youth baseball player fans. Batting gloves, sliding mitts, elbow guards, and $600 bats are not player development tools. They are marketing tools, and the families buying them deserve to know the difference.
Mental Game Mastery & Mindset (EQ)
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A Case for Accountability
It would have been easy to blame the driver. He was early. We were running late. But in that moment, between the panic and the car line, there was a better lesson available, one about what we can control, what we can't, and why accountability almost always feels better than blame once you actually try it.
Baseball Strategy & Situational Game IQ
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How to Make a Mound Visit as a Youth Catcher
Every catcher eventually walks out to the mound with no script and a pitcher who needs something they can't quite name yet. This guide is for that moment: when to go, what to do when you get there, and how to build the kind of presence your pitcher trusts before the hard innings even start. Nobody teaches this part. Here it is.
Coaching Tools & Fundamentals That Scale
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Switch-Hitter Switches Mid At-Bat: Banana Ball or Big Brain?
A 10U player stepped in lefty for the first pitch, then switched after one pitch. What looked like confusion might actually have been instinct backed by neuroscience. Deliberate unfamiliarity might be a real tool for slumping hitters.
Strength, Conditioning & Recovery
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Coach, You Need to Condition Yourself Too
Coaches spend the season telling players to warm up, stretch, and listen to their bodies, then show up stiff and under-conditioned themselves. This post comes from a hip injury and a hard lesson: coaching asks real physical labor of your body, and good intentions don't count as mobility work.
For The Love of the Game
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The Baseball That Lasted a Lifetime: Goodbye to Tommy John
When Tommy John's card was declined at a Toys R Us register in 1988, a regional manager stepped in and changed a family's Christmas forever. That signed baseball has traveled through four decades, one father's passing, and now one more loss. This is a personal goodbye to Tommy John and the memory he left behind without ever knowing it.
Community & Culture
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What Is Meant for You Won’t Miss You: Finding the Right Small Business Support
A hip injury forced me into physical therapy, and physical therapy led to a conversation with a bank that turned into one of the most encouraging meetings I've had since we started building Strike Sports. This is about the detour that turned out to be the route, and why founders don't have to know everything themselves to build something real.
Nutrition for Performance
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What If Sports Food Didn’t Have to Be Terrible for You?
It started with egg buns, high-protein little clouds that tasted too good to keep to myself. But what followed was a bigger question about why sports families keep landing in drive-throughs even when they know better.
