Kyle Wagner Notes   Bio gowags.kyle@gmail.com Founder of GoWags baseball academy in 2008 Author of How the RiverCats Won Author of Green Light hitting Green light academy website Played collegiately at Wake Forest University from '92-'95. Caught in the California Angels organization for one year (Boise '95) Coaching experience Elizabethtown College ('97 and '99) Wake Forest ('98) Red Land High School ('00 - '08) @GoWagsKyle Notes Are the people excited when they are with you?  Hot practice, cold games.  Games for the players. Practice becomes critical Something the kids could look forward toPop ups (macro event) Broke up between macro and micro events (team and individual) Musts - “will they like this?” Sell them on the beauty of the game Macro event - runner on 3rd 1 out - live ball runner runs Fun game at the end to  Too much information not enough inspiration (overcoaching) Youth coaching is to turn kids over for love of the game Implicit and explicitImplicit - no takes, no foul balls Down  3, 6 outs to go - play against the scoreboard Do the fun stuff while you are teaching Practice time is the coaches time, plan, prepare, and coaches on the same page Planning is more important than the plan Adaptable in the plan when the coach notices something is not right Get them out on time! Intent precedes content Embrace what they are not doing well and put them in a situation to do it Micro event - perfect and deliberate practice Macro event - train ugly, and don’t know what will happen. Find out what they are capable. Find failure and embrace it If the whole team is there deliberate practice won’t happen, more about competing and reps Development is not linear, its sequential Green light hitting - sequential hitting approachCore starts and then smaller muscles could work Aggression precedes disciplineGet players moving fast Train them to minimize choices Eliminate not swing to train them to elite velo Prove to me that you can be too quick Show me you can find your barrel on this BB You take a pitch because you can’t hit it hard Hitter to be able to move Laterally lateInside tee, soft toss away - no toss and hit off tee up the middle We want you to be a great hitter not great swinger of the bat Turn fast Posture Post chain Hands Lower half You need to be good enough to keep coming back Pre gameCount hitting Don’t overcoach Lineup is seen more circular than linear Stacked it from top to bottom with best hitters 4th batter should strikeout least often due to so many runners being on 3rd hitter high velo and great eye Every manager deserves the right to intuition Pitchers need to get swing and missed in the zone and hitters need to eliminate swing and misses in the zoneWho is owning the strike zone Exit velo coupled with launch angle (barrel %) Pitchers - weak contact and how often get swing and misses Pitching independent fielding Training pitchers more on the game mound Visualize on the game mound