Performance Velocity Systems

The Number 1 mistake parents make

Your kid isn’t “ahead”.. he’s early

©️Post from founder

For years we have advised parents to be judicious with Game play at the youth level. (All Sports)

Winning travel / rec games can give a false sense of accomplishment to parents. On occasion, youth dominance is because of God-given ability. Most often, however, youth dominance is a result of early physical maturation or another person in the young athlete’s life who pushes them to do things /Play at a rate that their peers are not close to. They just have alot more experience.

Early advantages disappear. This is hard to recognize because few Coaches see or will be honest with a parent while they are winning.

Winning keeps parents happy. There’s a lot of rec ball champions who played at PNC Park last summer that will never play meaningful college baseball. Youth athletes play too many games. And they do not train enough individually or in a group setting that pushes that kid beyond what they are capable of alone. Many great early maturing players disappear in middle school and high school. The Facebook post from parents stop …and it’s always someone else’s fault. Politics, Daddy Ball/ whatever. They’re simply never around people who push them by example. I’m not talking about a coach. I’m talking about walking into a place and seeing somebody two years older than you / 4 years older than you/ 10 years older than / s**t even 2 years younger than you -working his/ her ass off for something that is not guaranteed. Development is a learned behavior. And in our experience- best learned in a group. So the dominant 12 U player who’s probably in seventh grade wins 10 trophies at Ripken & the Akron Applebee’s hoedown throwdown…. And you’re thinking everything is good. But puberty shows up for everybody eventually. The gap closes and you find out that no NCAA coach coach cares about how good a player was when they were 12. Youth dominance means nothing later. NCAA Coaches care about movement, speed, strength, power, coachability, attitude. It’s the very first thing told our players this weekend. He didn’t care one iota whether you were a division 1 player or a 10 year old…he wanted to watch you move.

Most parents understand this too late .

The physical advantage is the one thing that cannot be caught quickly. Parents should know this because many of them have under-sized kids….and they know it’s gonna take time to “catch up.” But those parents of average to larger kids they don’t learn that lesson until it’s too late.

Confidence drops, the bad habits that were covered up by the previous “early” advantage- becomes disadvantages. The across the body swing cannot catch up to the new Velocity and Movement. The 73 mph fastball that dominated at 12U no longer blows by anyone. The gap has become a deficit and a 15 or 16 you almost impossible to have the honesty to recognize that and change it.

I have a gym full of kids home from college right now. Not one of them says they wish they would’ve played more games when they were younger. All of them in chorus sing 🎶 “wish I had done more of what I’m doing now.

I have two youth groups that sometimes play games. The death ☠️ squad and the Raiders. Since September- they haven’t had one organized baseball- only practice where we are trying to field ground balls or hit 100% of the time. We have done some of that but every single practice has involved >70% weightlifting / power / speed / mobility= MOVEMENT!!!! all specific to being better at baseball in three - 5 years. Habits and skills that will scale & are designed to eventually push them past their peers

I still get questions. “When are we going to do this? When are we gonna do that?” Some of them sort of in/ some of them with one foot in on middle school open gyms and Rec Ball pony league games.

2/ I remind them that the two PVS kids who played the least amount of games last summer are Graham Keen and Matthew Hughes. They are maniacal about what I’m talking about above. And they couldn’t be 2 better examples.

1️⃣has tremendous God-given size and talent who still works for everything he can get.

2️⃣The other …nobody wanted on their travel team at 12U. and now he is one of the best pitchers in the WPIAL.

♊️ Both Division I commits.

I ask parents to watch what will happen in the next three or four years with those 2. They are the model !!! not the 8000 kids who pack into some random facility waiting for a fungo or to hit a ball down the middle from a meatball maker. Those parents and those kids are wasting their money and what is intimately worse: their time !!!! I tell parents to come into the facility every Christmas and ask questions about all the college players that are having success, and what they would do if they could do it all over again.

success leaves clues and it’s a lot easier for us to say that now being an established facility that pops out NCAA Players every year…..but it’s still difficult at times because of the sports industrial complex and their grip on tournaments gameplay you go over coaches, my school, etc.

It’s difficult for us to continue to preach this truth (that has so much evidence) because it goes against the the number one mistake parents are conditioned to make.

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Pictured in our 1st post is Michael Kohowski. Michael’s family understands this. If Michael had done what all his peers have done over the last three years- he would not be throwing 81.7 mph from the mound.

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