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06/05/2026

👀 Yadi Drill 👀
👉 Focus on body and shoulder control
👉 Work shoulders over ball. Create a shorter blocking angle (smaller bounce off)
👉 Build confidence in your gear
👉 Control distance ball deflects away from you
🎯 This is a great drill for catcher to focus on just their upper body in the blocking process

06/05/2026

🎯Patience and Shoulder lean⚾🥎
Using weighted balls helps with strength at the catch point.

👉Make sure your shoulders are engaged and let the ball travel
👉Keep a slightly bent elbow so we can work through the path with force

06/05/2026

Catchers with wheels!

06/05/2026

Some issues when we attempt the OKD stance. Is how our body is setup.
Two main perks of this stance is 1) saving our legs for younger guys 2) getting lower for the low strike.
We lose our ability to get that low strike, if our shoulders are back. Make sure we engage would shoulders which will lower our eye level as well!
OKD stance is great if done properly but also puts us in a bad position when not done properly! Put in the work to perfect your technique

06/04/2026

🔥 Angle Control 🔥 if we control our angles with our body/shoulders. We can control the distance of deflection.
Glove down first is the focus of these two drills. Then working our shoulders around the ball.
When our angles are off, we lose control of the deflection!

06/03/2026

👉🏼 Warmup drills:

1) Around the world- always face center of circle. Lead with glove to cone. Get shoulder around glove. End facing center. Get up & repeat 2) Ladder drill- always start facing forward. Lead with glove and work down the ladder. Mix up angles of cones to be a straight block or angle block.
💪🏼 warm up before games or practice to get your legs firing and body moving in the right direction.

06/03/2026

Isolate an area and focus on it. Nice way to work on the transfer. Getting the ball in one hand and to the other.

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