Eric Harpring

‘29 3B/C Joshua Campbell (@IndyTitans; Rushville HS) took some of that days’ loudest swings. 5’10” 175. Works uphill w intent to lift. Exits over 💯 mph 👍👍 #INPAS26FROSH

Puberty throws off coordination fast. A few inches of growth can shift her center of mass, disrupt timing, and make familiar movements feel foreign. The #softball hitter who felt smooth last season might now feel lost. Normalize this phase and coach her through it.

I've coached a long time, but it took me a long time to realise this. Players who understand WHY execute better than those who just copy. Don't just show the movement. Explain the mechanics. Connect it to game situations. Make it relevant to their position. Momement->Slice->Situation 360tft.com/p/why-so-many-…

PS - you don’t need to remind us that elite athletes TEND to throw and hitter in similar ways. We know. But important, similar doesn’t mean exactly the same. Go back to Geometry class to look at the differences between similar and congruent. But let’s finish with a couple quotes from our boy @ShakeyWaits that will hopefully keep the technique police off our backs. “Why…do people performing the same skill seem to converge on similar (but critically, not exactly the same) movement solutions?” (invariants - good luck throwing 90 underhand or exiting 100 with a 1-arm swing) “We don’t repeat our movements, but they are not completely random and variable either. They are shaped by the constraints of our environments.” “The number of different profiles [that is, the amount of variability between performers] was larger for the more skilled international-level athletes [javelin] as compared to the national ones.” “Skillful movers in the same discipline do not all coordinate their movements in the same way - there is significant inter-movement variability between performers.” “Skillful movers do not achieve their goal by moving the same way every time - there is significant intra-movement variability within performers.”