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Indy Baller
JJR Next Level Training & Fitness
KNCT Athletics
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06/04/2026

The world is healing.

Just saw a group of kids riding their bikes to the field with bats and gloves strapped on their backs.

Just kids playing baseball.

Still one of the best forms of development there is!

06/03/2026

Your practice environment needs to be set up so the athlete can see and interpret feedback.

If there’s no feedback, the odds of creating a lasting change are low.

At that point, you’re just throwing to throw.

Create a feedback loop where athletes can clearly tell whether they’re getting closer to or further from the desired outcome. That information allows them to organize and refine their movement solutions over time.

Feedback creates adaptation.

Without it, you’re just accumulating reps.

06/01/2026

I’ll be in town this week with a few time slots open for lessons. DM me if you want to get something scheduled👍

05/27/2026

The best way to develop a youth pitcher?

Have them play shortstop.

Making throws to first with a time constraint (the runner) forces the athlete to organize and solve movement problems in real time. Different arm angles, throwing on the run, moving in, back, and side to side… all while figuring out how to get the ball out on time and accurately.

Over time, this builds adaptability, athleticism, arm action, and coordination far better than obsessing over mechanics too early.

Do this consistently for years, and you’ll probably end up with a much better pitcher than you expected.

05/27/2026

Have availability tomorrow if you want to meet up for pitching lessons.

DM me if you want to get some midweek work in🤝

05/24/2026

I think a lot of youth development gets mistaken for just playing more games.

If I had a kid, I’d do everything I could to increase the amount of actual touches they were getting:
Hitting. Throwing. Fielding.

Backyard wiffle ball, small sided games, 5-man baseball, etc… Environments where they’re constantly involved and solving movement problems.

Because how many real reps does a player get in a normal game?

Maybe 3 to 4 at-bats and a couple balls hit to them all game if they’re lucky?

Development comes from interacting with the skill, not standing around waiting for your turn.

Get good at the skills that actually matter.

05/22/2026

Two pitchers can face the same hitter, yet the same situation provides completely different affordances based on how each athlete perceives it.

One sees an opportunity to compete and get the hitter out. The other sees a threat and hopes to simply throw a strike.

The athlete’s body organizes around what it perceives as important, recruiting different attractors in the process. One pitcher organizes toward intent and adaptability, while the other organizes toward tension and conscious movement, often losing degrees of freedom as movement becomes constrained and performance suffers.

This is why training environment matters. If practice is built around avoiding mistakes, athletes learn to perceive the task as threat-based and organize toward control. But if training is designed around solving competitive problems, we can shape perception toward action and adaptability. That might mean competing against hitters, adding variability, using constraints, and creating consequences that mirror the game.

Perception shapes affordances. Affordances shape attractors. Attractors shape how the body organizes movement under pressure.

05/21/2026

A common misconception in youth sports right now is:

“If you’re not going D1… then why do anything else?”

So what happens?

More games.
More practices.
Less actual development.

Instead of building better athletes, we’re chasing exposure, rankings, and specialization before kids have even built a foundation to move well.

Movement quality matters.

It influences long-term athletic development, coordination, adaptability, injury resilience, and ultimately skill acquisition itself.

We’re stripping away the idea of being active for life and replacing it with early specialization at younger and younger ages.

The best thing you can do for a young athlete?

Expose them to variability.

Different sports.
Different environments.
Different movement problems to solve.

Let them sprint, jump, climb, react, throw, cut, balance, and explore.

Develop elite movers first.

The skill will follow.

Thank me later.

05/20/2026

If your eyes go to the radar gun before the ball even reaches the target, you’re probably missing the most important part of development.

In motor learning, athletes improve when they learn to trust what they feel first. We should always lean toward developing intrinsic feedback before relying on external information and creating a strong internal feedback loop.

Intrinsic feedback is the rep itself: ball flight, pop of the mitt, miss vs barrel, and how the ball actually came out. That’s where athletes learn to organize and refine the skill.

Augmented feedback should be delayed. Radar, TrackMan, or video should come after the rep, not to lead it but to confirm and refine perception.

Feel it. Solve it. Then validate it.

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