BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.12//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:110@texasbaseballranch.com DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261206 DTSTAMP:20260929T153106Z 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\nClick HERE to Register\n \;\nFor fifteen straight years we held c oaches 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 br inging that event back?\nWell\, this December\, we are. Though I want to b e honest with you up front about what we're bringing back\, because it isn 't the old clinic.\nFirst\, let me say something about the job you're actu ally doing\nI've spent a lot of years around high school coaches\, and I'v e noticed that most of the marketing aimed at you seems to imagine a man w ho has nothing to do but study pitching.\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 lines the field. Somewhere in there you're a lso expected to develop a pitching 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 things. First\, you're the majority. Second\ , that's exactly who these two days are built for.\nI'm not going to stand up there and talk over your head to impress the three guys in the room wh o already know all of it. That isn't teaching. That's performing.\nThe pro blem was never a shortage of information\nYou already have access to more pitching content than any human being could consume. Drills. Throwing prog rams. Mechanical opinions. Velocity theories. Arm-care routines. Pitch des ign videos. Gadgets. Technology. A social media feed full of confident peo ple disagreeing with each other.  The problem isn't finding more informat ion.\nThe problem is deciding what's actually useful for the pitcher stand ing in front of you… the specific 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 practical\, field-tested difference makers we us e here at the Ranch. But more importantly\, we're going to help you unders tand where they fit\, why they matter\, and how to apply them inside your program \, which is the part almost nobody bothers with\, and the part tha t determines whether anything you learn survives the drive home.\nWhat you 'll leave with\nNot a binder you'll rarely open again. Real tools\, and ha nds-on experience with them.\nA practical arm-health game plan. The differ ence makers we use to help pitchers prepare\, move well\, recover\, and bu ild durability and why workload is only one piece of the arm-health puzzle rather than the whole thing. That one idea alone changes how you run a Fe bruary practice.\nBetter ways to develop command. Practical work through c atch play\, long toss\, variable distance\, horizontal and vertical comman d training\, and adjustment-based drills. The goal is pitchers who throw m ore strikes on purpose…not command you ‘hope’ shows up on game day.\ nA clearer approach to velocity. What we believe genuinely moves the needl e\, what quietly wastes your time\, and how to think about building veloci ty and then keeping it across a long season.\nA better way to develop seco ndary pitches. Rather than handing 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 wh o he actually is.\nA recovery system you can use. Routines and tools meant to keep your best arm the same competitor in May that he was in February. \nAnd a better filter for the noise. This may matter most of all. I want y ou to leave better equipped to look at any new drill\, gadget\, program\, or hot take and ask three questions. Does this make sense for my pitcher? Is this where my attention belongs right now? And what problem am I actual ly trying to solve?\nDAY ONE — Building the Weapon\nEach session opens w ith me laying the foundation. Then you rotate through every hands-on break out station with our staff… you don't choose between them\, you see all of them.\nSession I — Building &\; Maintaining Arm Health and Durabil ity\nArm health is built. It is not hoped for.\nFoundation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Full-body functional wake-up and warm-up\n Arm care\, arm prep\, connection tools and their usage\n Mobility\, flexibili ty\, and corrective routines\n The SAP protocol (Protocol on dealing with pitchers with current arm issues)\n\nClosing roundtable and Q&\;A\, so you can connect what you just saw to the realities of your own staff.\nSe ssion II — Developing Command\nCommand is built on purpose. It is not so mething you cross your fingers about.\nFoundation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Building command inside catch play and drill work\n Comm and long toss\n V/Flex\, the Wheel Drill\, and variable-distance work\n Testing horizontal and vertical command capability\n Khaos training — p racticing adjustments\n\nRoundtable and Q&\;A to close.\nSession III — Adding &\; Maintaining Velocity\nBecause "throw harder" is not a de velopment plan.\nFoundation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Commo n mistakes made in the weight room-tools and their usage\n Utilizing long toss\n Utilizing overweighted and underweighted implements\n Agility\, coordination\, and motor control\n Minimizing micro trauma while maximizi ng arm action\, loading and unloading\n\nThe goal here isn't chasing radar gun numbers. It's understanding the pieces that influence velocity well e nough to make smarter decisions for an individual pitcher.\nDAY TWO — Wi nning the War\nSession IV — Developing Swing-and-Miss Secondary Stuff\nW eapons\, not a collection of grips.\nFoundation session\, then rotations t hrough:\n\n\n Using long toss and catch play to develop feel for spin and shape\n Tools and low-intensity drills that enhance feel &\; awarenes s\n Thinking in shapes\, grips\, axis of rotation\, tempo\, and ball spee d\n\nSession V — Enhancing Recovery &\; Consistency\nYour best arm ha s to be able to compete again. And again.\nFoundation session\, then rotat ions through:\n\n\n Utilizing the football (A powerful and often underuti lized tool)\n Recovery routines and systems\n Muscle stimulation and oth er modalities\n\nSession VI — Building Strategic &\; Tactical Advanta ge\nDevelopment matters. So does knowing how to use what you've built.\nFo undation session\, then rotations through:\n\n\n Utilizing Rapsodo and Tr ackMan effectively\n Building and mastering sequences\n\nBecause developi ng better pitches is only half the job. Helping a pitcher understand how t o use them against a hitter is where development finally turns into perfor mance.\n \;\nClick HERE to Register\n \;\nWhy December\nBecause  obviously by mid-January\, your players are standing in front of you.\nOnc e they report\, everything starts moving fast…. practices\, bullpens\, r oles\, workloads\, arm health\, schedules\, games\, and the hundred small decisions a day that come with running a staff. There's no room left to th ink.\nDecember gives you the one thing January will not.\nTime. Time to st ep back. Time to think through how you actually want to develop your pitch ers this year. Time to look honestly at what you're currently doing. And t ime to take what you learn here\, adapt it to your program and your people \, and put it in place before the season is on top of you.\nI've said this 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.\n Why here\nBecause these ideas weren't developed on a whiteboard. They were developed\, tested\, argued over\, and refined through years of work with real pitchers who had real problems.\nOver the years that work has includ ed 700+ arms over 90 mph\, 149+ draft picks\, and four Cy Young Award winn ers.\nI'm not putting those numbers in front of you because I expect you t o be impressed by a list. Honestly\, a list of accomplishments is one of t he least useful things one coach can hand another. I'm sharing them becaus e working with that many arms\, at that many levels\, with that many diffe rent needs\, forced us to keep questioning what we do and it's the questio ning\, not the résumé\, that produced what you'll see over these two day s.\nThis is hands-on\, and it's in-house\nYou will not spend two days sitt ing in a chair watching a parade of lectures.\nEvery major session starts with the foundational presentation\, and then you're up and rotating throu gh practical stations with our staff. You'll see the tools. You'll see the drills. You'll see how we actually teach them\, and you'll have time to a sk why.\nThat's also why we're deliberately keeping this in-house rather t han importing six speakers. You're not coming to hear six unrelated presen tations 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 wa y any of it makes sense.\nOne honest word before you decide\nIf you're loo king for the single drill that fixes everything\, I'd rather you save your money. It doesn't exist\, and anyone selling it to you knows better.\nAnd if you're coming hoping we'll confirm what you already do\, you may leave 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 thi ngs you can use at practice on Monday  then I'd truly enjoy having you he re.\nClick HERE to Register END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR