About Me

Independent Baseball Scout. Baseball Consultant to Sports Agents. Owner/Operator of Combat Hitting.
I have 28 years of continuous membership in the ABCA(American Baseball Coaches Association). 13 Year Past Member Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association. EX HS and COLLEGE BASEBALL COACH and EX MLB SCOUT. From 1989-1996, I was involved in pro scouting before deciding to focus on private hitting instruction. I have had the opportunity to work with all levels of hitters over the years.

Interests

• BASEBALL
• BASEBALL HITTING
• FAST PITCH SOFTBALL HITTING
• Sports Psychology
• NLP
• Brain Typing
• Whole Brain Learning
• Sports Vision
• Bio-Mechanics
• Martial Arts
• Kinesiology
• Anatomy, Physiology and Epigenetics

 

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A Holistic Hitting System For Today's Hitter

By combining several of the more popular practices currently in use today and targeted specifically to make hitters more aggressive, I've created a Hitting Mantra.

Caveat: The Hitting Mantra must be repeated often just like a meditation mantra to take root in the subconscious mind. Then, to get your hit, command and demand it in each at bat as part of your pre-pitch Hitting Mantra. You set the table mentally...now go and claim what's rightfully yours.

A Hitting Mantra (HM) contains metaphysical, spiritual, and epigenetic thoughts which also include powerful hitting affirmations. For those that want or need more details or definitions of the aspects that make up the Hitting Mantra than what's provided in the following instructions, please email me.

Each HM begins with giving thanks to a HIGHER BEING which inferences your ultimate goal of playing for something greater than yourself. As ong as you believe in a Higher Power, doors seem to open with this approach from my experience. If you love GOD, then you should also love yourself. The love yourself message in the Hitting Mantra can make you into a new, confident hitter. As further proof that love is powerful, Epigenetics is proving that an 'I love me' belief has a genetic effect. Therefore, re-wire yourself to a better career with a love yourself thought. 

Also included in the Hitting Mantra are powerful affirmations of developing yourself into a better hitter than you currently believe you are and a “gear up”, aggressive belief that every pitch is your pitch to hit.

An example of a personalized HM for a major leaguer playing in the A.L. would be:
Praise GOD. I love power hitting American League All-Star third baseman that is bettering mankind and baseball ME. Every pitch is MY pitch (to hit). (I) Expect fastball and adjust to the curve.

A California HS player’s HM might be: Praise GOD. I love line drive hitting California HS All-State second baseman bettering mankind and baseball ME. Every pitch is MY pitch. Expect fastball and adjust to the curve.

The HM can be amended and structured for each hitter’s level and league that he/she plays in. It is used in practice at hitting stations and during a game where it is repeated each at bat before the first pitch in an at bat and following each sequential pitch as part of the recycling process.

If you are thinking that the HM is a little too “out there” for you, just remember that the practice of recycling was also thought of in the same manner when it first came on the scene. It has become the norm for the better hitters and I predict that the Hitting Mantra will also become the norm in the near future. If you have doubts about it, give it a legitimate try and you will see a measurable improvement in your hitting performance.