I will be at the NSCA Sport-Specific Training Conference in Orlando this weekend.  I have a short 20-minute “From the Field” presentation on Friday at 12:20, where I’ll talk about overload-underload training and drills for bat speed development.  Send me a message if you’ll be there…….

Jeff Bat Speed, Events bat speed

The 2009 Perfect Game World Wood Bat Championship is coming up this month  – October 22-26 – at the Roger Dean Stadium complex in Jupiter, Florida.  I went last year and saw a lot of the best amateur talent in the country, so I’m looking forward to more of the same this year.  Here is the tournament description from their site:

This will be the 11th annual WWBA World Championship. It is held each year in Jupiter, FL. Considered by many as the top amateur baseball tournament in the world, it consists of 80 of the top elite travel teams from across the US, Canada, and Latin America. Past champions include Perfect Game USA (1999), Baseball America (2000, 2002), Miami Sluggers (2001), East Cobb Astros (2003, Co-2005), Houston Heat (2004), Chet Lemon’s Juice (Co-2005), Reds Scout Team (2006), Braves Scout Team (2007)

Be sure to leave a comment or contact me if you plan to be there.

Jeff Events

I’ll be on the road again next week, this time heading to Indianapolis, Indiana to visit my alma mater, Butler University.  It’s another alumni weekend, so I’m looking forward to seeing old friends and teammates.  It will be nice to see the upgrades to the ballpark, which I missed out on when I visited last February.

Read more…

Jeff Events Events

We finished up our 2009 season, 138 games, with a win against the St. Lucie Mets.  Now that it is officially the “off-season”, I’ll be continuing work on the site and planning various trips and events, which can now be tracked with the Events Calendar on the sidebar.

Contact me if you’re in the area or you have a suggestion for a Swingtraining.net event opportunity.  Lots good things on deck this fall and winter…

To get things going, I will be heading to my hometown Rochester, NY this week (Wed.-Sun.) mainly to talk hitting and off-season training with Rochester Institute of Technology baseball, softball and strength & conditioning coaches.  Very similar to what I did during my graduate school days at Louisiana Tech.

Also should be doing a follow up to a TV interview that I did with RIT Sportszone, which had previously come to Florida to catch up with myself and another former Tiger, so look for that episode in the near future.

Lots of friends and family in the area, so it should be a busy trip.

Jeff Events Events, instruction, training