BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.4//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:110@texasbaseballranch.com DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261206 DTSTAMP:20260911T164137Z URL:https://www.texasbaseballranch.com/events/high-school-coaches-workshop / SUMMARY:High School Coaches Workshop DESCRIPTION:You Asked Us to Bring It Back.\nSo This December\, We're Openin g the Ranch to High School Coaches for Two Days — Hands-On\, In-House\, and About One Thing: Helping You Develop Better Pitchers.\nFriday\, Decemb er 4 &\; Saturday\, December 5 Texas Baseball Ranch® | Montgomery\, Te xas\nFor fifteen straight years we held coaches events here at the Ranch. Then we stopped.\nFor a long while I wasn't sure we'd do another one. But coaches kept asking. Are you guys ever bringing that event back?\nWell\, t his December\, we are. Though I want to be honest with you up front about what we're bringing back\, because it isn't the old clinic.\nFirst\, let m e say something about the job you're actually doing\nI've spent a lot of y ears around high school coaches\, and I've noticed that most of the market ing aimed at you seems to imagine a man who has nothing to do but study pi tching.\nThat usually isn't who's reading this.\nYou're probably the head coach. You may also be the one who drags the tarp\, fights for the budget\ , answers to the AD\, handles the parent emails\, drives the bus\, and lin es the field. Somewhere in there you're also expected to develop a pitchin g staff and there's a fair chance nobody ever actually taught you how. You played\, or you coached position guys\, and pitching became yours because it had to belong to somebody.\nIf that's you\, I want you to know two thi ngs. First\, you're the majority. Second\, that's exactly who these two da ys are built for.\nI'm not going to stand up there and talk over your head to impress the three guys in the room who already know all of it. That is n't teaching. That's performing.\nThe problem was never a shortage of info rmation\nYou already have access to more pitching content than any human b eing could consume. Drills. Throwing programs. Mechanical opinions. Veloci ty theories. Arm-care routines. Pitch design videos. Gadgets. Technology. A social media feed full of confident people disagreeing with each other.   The problem isn't finding more information.\nThe problem is deciding wh at's actually useful for the pitcher standing in front of you… the speci fic kid\, with his specific body\, on your specific roster\, in February.\ nThat's what these two days are about.\nWe're going to show you the practi cal\, field-tested difference makers we use here at the Ranch. But more im portantly\, we're going to help you understand where they fit\, why they m atter\, and how to apply them inside your program \, which is the part alm ost nobody bothers with\, and the part that determines whether anything yo u learn survives the drive home.\nWhat you'll leave with\nNot a binder you 'll rarely open again. Real tools\, and hands-on experience with them.\nA practical arm-health game plan. The difference makers we use to help pitch ers prepare\, move well\, recover\, and build durability and why workload is only one piece of the arm-health puzzle rather than the whole thing. Th at one idea alone changes how you run a February practice.\nBetter ways to develop command. Practical work through catch play\, long toss\, variable distance\, horizontal and vertical command training\, and adjustment-base d drills. The goal is pitchers who throw more strikes on purpose…not com mand you ‘hope’ shows up on game day.\nA clearer approach to velocity. What we believe genuinely moves the needle\, what quietly wastes your tim e\, and how to think about building velocity and then keeping it across a long season.\nA better way to develop secondary pitches. Rather than handi ng every arm the same grip chart\, how we think about shape\, spin\, feel\ , movement pattern\, posture orientation\, axis\, tempo\, and ball speed …so a pitcher builds a weapon that fits who he actually is.\nA recovery system you can use. Routines and tools meant to keep your best arm the sam e competitor in May that he was in February.\nAnd a better filter for the noise. This may matter most of all. I want you to leave better equipped to look at any new drill\, gadget\, program\, or hot take and ask three ques tions. Does this make sense for my pitcher? Is this where my attention bel ongs right now? And what problem am I actually trying to solve?\nDAY ONE — Building the Weapon\nEach session opens with me laying the foundation. Then you rotate through every hands-on breakout station with our staff… you don't choose between them\, you see all of them.\nSession I — Build ing &\; Maintaining Arm Health and Durability\nArm health is built. It is not hoped for.\nFoundation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Ful l-body functional wake-up and warm-up\n Arm care\, arm prep\, connection tools and their usage\n Mobility\, flexibility\, and corrective routines\ n The SAP protocol (Protocol on dealing with pitchers with current arm is sues)\n\nClosing roundtable and Q&\;A\, so you can connect what you jus t saw to the realities of your own staff.\nSession II — Developing Comma nd\nCommand is built on purpose. It is not something you cross your finger s about.\nFoundation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Building com mand inside catch play and drill work\n Command long toss\n V/Flex\, the Wheel Drill\, and variable-distance work\n Testing horizontal and vertic al command capability\n Khaos training — practicing adjustments\n\nRoun dtable and Q&\;A to close.\nSession III — Adding &\; Maintaining V elocity\nBecause "throw harder" is not a development plan.\nFoundation ses sion\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Common mistakes made in the weight r oom-tools and their usage\n Utilizing long toss\n Utilizing overweighted and underweighted implements\n Agility\, coordination\, and motor contro l\n Minimizing micro trauma while maximizing arm action\, loading and unl oading\n\nThe goal here isn't chasing radar gun numbers. It's understandin g the pieces that influence velocity well enough to make smarter decisions for an individual pitcher.\nDAY TWO — Winning the War\nSession IV — D eveloping Swing-and-Miss Secondary Stuff\nWeapons\, not a collection of gr ips.\nFoundation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Using long toss and catch play to develop feel for spin and shape\n Tools and low-intensi ty drills that enhance feel &\; awareness\n Thinking in shapes\, grips \, axis of rotation\, tempo\, and ball speed\n\nSession V — Enhancing Re covery &\; Consistency\nYour best arm has to be able to compete again. And again.\nFoundation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Utilizing the football (A powerful and often underutilized tool)\n Recovery routine s and systems\n Muscle stimulation and other modalities\n\nSession VI — Building Strategic &\; Tactical Advantage\nDevelopment matters. So doe s knowing how to use what you've built.\nFoundation session\, then rotatio ns through:\n\n\n Utilizing Rapsodo and TrackMan effectively\n Building and mastering sequences\n\nBecause developing better pitches is only half the job. Helping a pitcher understand how to use them against a hitter is where development finally turns into performance.\nWhy December\nBecause  obviously by mid-January\, your players are standing in front of you.\nOn ce they report\, everything starts moving fast…. practices\, bullpens\, roles\, workloads\, arm health\, schedules\, games\, and the hundred small decisions a day that come with running a staff. There's no room left to t hink.\nDecember gives you the one thing January will not.\nTime. Time to s tep back. Time to think through how you actually want to develop your pitc hers this year. Time to look honestly at what you're currently doing. And time to take what you learn here\, adapt it to your program and your peopl e\, and put it in place before the season is on top of you.\nI've said thi s for years and I believe it more each season: December is often when your season is really established. That's precisely why we chose these dates.\ nWhy here\nBecause these ideas weren't developed on a whiteboard. They wer e developed\, tested\, argued over\, and refined through years of work wit h real pitchers who had real problems.\nOver the years that work has inclu ded 700+ arms over 90 mph\, 149+ draft picks\, and four Cy Young Award win ners.\nI'm not putting those numbers in front of you because I expect you to be impressed by a list. Honestly\, a list of accomplishments is one of the least useful things one coach can hand another. I'm sharing them becau se working with that many arms\, at that many levels\, with that many diff erent needs\, forced us to keep questioning what we do and it's the questi oning\, not the résumé\, that produced what you'll see over these two da ys.\nThis is hands-on\, and it's in-house\nYou will not spend two days sit ting in a chair watching a parade of lectures.\nEvery major session starts with the foundational presentation\, and then you're up and rotating thro ugh practical stations with our staff. You'll see the tools. You'll see th e drills. You'll see how we actually teach them\, and you'll have time to ask why.\nThat's also why we're deliberately keeping this in-house rather than importing six speakers. You're not coming to hear six unrelated prese ntations from six people who've never spoken to one another. You're coming inside the Ranch to see how the pieces fit together.. which is the only w ay any of it makes sense.\nOne honest word before you decide\nIf you're lo oking for the single drill that fixes everything\, I'd rather you save you r money. It doesn't exist\, and anyone selling it to you knows better.\nAn d if you're coming hoping we'll confirm what you already do\, you may leav e uncomfortable. We're going to show you what we've found\, and some of it will disagree with things you've been told by people you respect.\nIf you 'd like two days with people who will talk to you straight and hand you th ings you can use at practice on Monday  then I'd truly enjoy having you h ere. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR