12 Mike Franklin ”Servant Leaders, Creating Pitchers, and Why to Slash”

Show Notes

• After you win a championship no one cares
• Servant club called WAR - Christmas time going and volunteer, doing something for veterans
• Who are you going to serve?
• We need champions for kids
• I can’t find a good story, nothing positive.
• Kids follow the model that we set for them
• Going to a Unified sports meet 
• 2 minutes at the beginning or end of the practice to set the mood (mentality)
• 2 hour vacation from life
• Make an error, take your hat off, and when your ready put it back on
• The kids changed me as I discovered their stories
• RELATIONSHIPS
• Its not black and white - its not
• Restorative justice
• Normal is what you know
• Each week is a theme
• “Season of Life” book by Joe Urman
  • Why do I coach
  • Why do I coach the way I do?
  • What is it like to be coached by me?
  • Two other questions
• How can you project a kid ability?
• Everyone is a pitcher until they are not
• Be unusual - usual gets SMASHED
• Most guys are not 90 mph kids so they should
• Power, crafty, funky, arm plane (sidearm, submarine), hide the ball, timing wrecker, one pitch guy
• Know your kids and the better relationship with the kid the easier it is to put them in a role
• How are the kids feet? Good feet and footwork = good arm plane guy
• When the pitcher shows you their pocket, hitter shows you their pocket
• Sidearm - be quick, great movement, emulate the hili paddle (throw with a bent arm)
• Keys of pitching - Location, velocity, movement, deception
• How well do you know the kid?
• Go find good coaches, and study them!
• 2 worst things are pop ups and strikeouts
• More games are lost than won
• Slashing is helping give us a chance to stay out of the air and not strikeout
• Ball, close, and a strike and you better be swinging at 2 of them!
• Mindset that is self made and self motivated, and have to want to do it!  Finding ways to make himself better.  I want to be better!
• Contact info:
  • coachfranklin@yahoo.com
  • www.mike-franklin.com
  • Twitter - @AuthorCoachF