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		<title>Hard Work Or Work Hard?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hear parents and coaches all the time talk to their athletes about the importance of working hard. Ever heard these sentences at a ball game in the stands? &#8220;I just don&#8217;t know what it takes to get my son to work hard?&#8221; &#8220;IPod, Xbox, cell phone texting, and Facebook is what occupies my son&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Tell If We&#8217;re Full Of Crap About Pitching Mechanics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We appreciate your readership, we really do. Both Dan and I work hard at bringing you the best of what we know about hitting and pitching mechanics on a regular basis. We trust you find it useful. In doing some writing last night for another ebook, I thought to myself, how do our readers know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back foot drag ok or not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember my coach in high school telling me that dragging my foot during the pitching motion was bad mechanics and actually slowed my velocity. This made sense to me then, so I tried to lift my foot earlier. Contrary to this advice, dragging your rear foot some during the pitching motion is a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do You Practice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sent a text to a few of the players I coach a couple days ago. The text read, &#8220;Why do you practice?&#8221; One of the responses was, &#8220;to achieve greatness.&#8221; Another text said, &#8220;I practice to get better. I work on the skills I lack.&#8221; I like the second response better. It&#8217;s much more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with 13U pitchers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I begin working with a team of 13u pitchers. My job is to get their pitching mechanics in tip top shape before March when they begin playing. The first area of focus I work on with his age is proper balance during the leg left. Secondly, I teach them how to lead with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepitchingacademy.com/pitching-mechanics/working-with-13u-pitchers/</link>
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		<title>The Best Pitching Workout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have read in previous newsletters you know it can be challenging to find the very best pitching workouts that suit your personal needs.  It takes some trial and error before you find out what works. On that note, there are a few “musts” that you need to add to your repertoire like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepitchingacademy.com/pitching-workouts/the-best-pitching-workout/</link>
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		<title>Baseball Pitching: Preparing For 2012 Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a fun time of year. Nate and I are inundated helping athletes fine tune their skills and work hard to ensure success this year. Now is the time to lace up your shoes and get to work! The biggest concern I have this time of year with many pitchers is they are simply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepitchingacademy.com/general-pitching/baseball-pitching-preparing-for-2012-season/</link>
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		<title>Hitting 101 &#8211; How the hands work &#8211; Important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working quite a bit lately with hitters on their upper half &#8211; specifically how their hands move into and through the zone. I realize this can be technical in nature; I&#8217;ll do my best to put it in some common language. I always hate the big wordage some use to describe hitting and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepitchingacademy.com/hitting-mechanics/hitting-101-how-the-hands-work-important/</link>
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		<title>Controlling The Front Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things I notice when I watch young pitchers who have little training is the glove arm. Often times when they throw, their glove arm flops off to the side as they go through their throwing motion. It&#8217;s almost as if they are trying to pull their throwing arm through to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepitchingacademy.com/pitching-mechanics/controlling-the-front-side/</link>
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		<title>The Strike Out Only Mentality On The Mound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I began playing baseball at age ten, late for many kids. Because I was always big for my age, I found myself on the pitching mound a lot. I threw hard and enjoyed the feeling of striking kids out. What kid who throws hard doesn&#8217;t right? I continued striking out hitters through high school with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepitchingacademy.com/pitching-velocity/the-strike-out-only-mentality-on-the-mound/</link>
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