Casey Fisk
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@FiskPT
Fisk Performance Training. I want you to win.
Samford loses the series finale to Western Carolina 10-9 after this horrifyingly bad strike three call to Jeffrey Ince. I mean this is ridiculous. Even the WCU pitcher and catcher are stunned.
I tell my athletes…” I’d rather you be loud and wrong than right and quiet.” Bold wins!!!!!
It’s ok to say you became a teacher so that you could coach.
The harder you try in games... the worse you hit. That's not a talent problem. That's a trust problem. Your swing probably works. Stop judging every little thing mid-at-bat and just play. -> You can train this. And no, you won’t be able to achieve this 100% of the time. We are human. But, we can significantly improve it. -> When training, and you feel yourself criticizing yourself way too much, getting stiff and forcing everything, step out. Walk away. Reset. Nothing good is gonna come from you forcing. Reset. Change your thought process. Reset your goal and let yourself play the game. Let it happen. Let it flow. Trust your work. Making adjustments mid round / at bat and criticizing yourself is DIFFERENT. Adjusting is productive. Criticizing is not. Big difference. Elite hitters can adjust without hammering themselves. Can you get better at this? Bet you can. Go try. *Make sure you’re following for more on ‘turning BP hitters into game hitters’*
The interesting thing about the industry of developing baseball players is that for a lot of years what was commonly taught was also entirely without any factual grounding of it’s effectiveness. It’s like we had the batteries of the remote control in backwards and we’re wondering why the tv won’t turn on. I’m not talking about something related to opinion. Fly ball bad, ground ball good barf, or what is Martin Scorsese’s best movie is (Goodfellas, obviously). We’re talking about how people learn. How our bodies adapt. How our brains work. How we acquire skill. How we find joy. How we feel safe. What was taught in some instances - by people who had the same amount of love and positive intention in their hearts as good coaches do today - didn’t align with what we now know to be simple truths about how people learn and develop. And it largely didn’t matter. (Other than to the corpses of the careers and life experiences of kids who got run out of the game, hurt etc and never got a chance to experience how this game can change your life, but I digress) But right now - in 2026 - it should. We simply know better, and we know more. And that’s what we’re doing with the Academy. Use what we actually know - the stuff you can stand on - about how to teach and build a holistic program that revolves around those principles. It’s worth mentioning that as we get more information the program changes. It has to. 8 years ago I thought that pulldowns were a specifically important part of pattern development for youth throwers. Now I think they’re just a training environment that provides a type of stimulus, and like any other environment you want enough stimulus to drive the adaptation response, but you don’t want to get too much stimulus that you push too far into fatigue and get inadequate recovery. That’s just like…how stuff works. We had our @DrivelineYouth coach training session with my guy @Lunchboxhero45 and 3A Athletics this morning. We started digging deep on some concepts around childhood development and how you can best install a sense of safety with kids, which is one of everyone’s foundational needs. You gotta feel safe. We started talking about some potential worries about constantly communicating training data to kids younger than 12, and some of what we discussed really challenged some long held theories I’ve had. So I’m gonna have to sit down with it, try to understand it from a perspective of not what I like, or what makes me feel good about the validity of my ideas, but what works. What is best for the athlete - specifically kids 12 and under. Because that is what we have to do. I just think we are doing a disservice to todays players - who will be tomorrows coaches - if we don’t simply use the information we know to be true in how we teach them.
Did it work in the cage? What's the difference? Depth of field. Inside, you saw the ball v. the back wall 40-70 feet away. Outside, you see a house or a tree 400+ feet away. I teach it, but you're not here. Learn the definition of parallax. It'll change your journey.
Stupidly simple cue I used with @Cassidyfisk2027 when we were short on time & needed to get game-ready: "No words & no groundballs." I've used it with multiple hitters in the past 7 days, because ... it just worked ... OK ... a little bit ... kind of enough for me to post this.
To hammer this home we picked one player who took the blame for every mistake the entire season, literally he said,”my bad” after every mistake just to show the importance of individual accountability. Worked great.
