Baseball Outside The Box

Coach Caliendo goes across the ocean to the Netherlands where there are top
experts in coaching, teaching, scientists, psychologists in baseball and
other sports. This is a topic that all coaches of all sports should learn
from because understanding the way the body moves and the way the brain
functions is critical to teaching skills. We discuss all this in reference
to the swing and hitting a baseball, but this should be applied to teaching
all skills.

Bart Hanegraaff is one of the best Motor learning and skill acquisition
experts and the hitting coach for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Bart most
recently sport at the Florida Baseball Ranch 2nd annual Baseball Skills
Summits, which has some of the most innovative, outside the box thinkers,
some of the brightest minds in and outside the game.

Bart Hanegraaff

Twitter @BartHanegraaff
Web Site: https://barthanegraaff.weebly.com/index.html

Bio
*       Motor learning and skill acquisition expert

*       Kingdom of the Netherlands athletic high performance and hitting
coach of high performance

*       A consultant of the Pittsburg Pirates

*       Trained under the famous Frans Bosch

Topics: Hitting is the major skill discussed.

Discuss the Florida Baseball Ranch 2nd annual Baseball Skills Summits and
some things that were covered, who were the speakers, etc. what Bart may
have learned at the summit.

Bart discusses his topic he spoke about at the conference.

Where does Vision and balance fall into the motor learning and skill
acquisition phases.

Discuss Cause and Effect.

Chaotic training.

Constraint lead approach, utilizing Task Environment, Surface Constraint and
Body Stress in your skill training.

Gets into hands separation, what really occurs and how it can be trained.

Motor learning theories, this is very interesting.

Absolutes of the swing.

The important aspect of deceleration plays in the over all swing.

Very important area on the roll over of the hands in the swing and why
letting go can be bad.

Stability and Instability, how the muscles work and understanding it can
help you train specific skills.

Co-contraction through Hip Switch and variability.

Attractors of the swing

Identifying Flaws

Plan of attack

Practice environment, how to put it all into a real game situation
transferable to real games.