What is the Florida Baseball Ranch®/Strength of Skills® Baseball Skill Acquisition Summit?

In case you've been living under a rock, here's how the whole idea got started:

In December of 2014, Frans Bosch, one of the world's most preeminent motor learning and skill acquisiton specialists, traveled to the The Texas Baseball Ranch® as the keynote speaker for a baseball coaches' boot camp. 

After outlining the basics for a few minutes, Frans stood confidently on the stage. He looked out at the nearly 200 baseball coaches in attendance -- men who make their living telling athletes how do something, watching them do it, then telling them how to do it better -- and, in his classic Dutch accent, boldly stated, 

"The body has very little interest in what the coach has to say." 

After many deep, thought-provoking conversations, Frans, Randy Sullivan (CEO and founder of The Florida Baseball Ranch®), and other enlightened thinkers in the Dutch National Federation, decided to create a motor learning and skill acquisition conference targeted specifically for baseball. 

The inaugural event in 2018 was a resounding success. After the Summit, three of our esteemed presenters were hired as consultants for MLB teams in attendance, and the Dutch contingent formed a new corporation know as Strength of Skills®.

According feedback from the participants, Summit 2018 was "world class" and "a game changer." 

And, now we have some great news

We're getting the band back together!

That's right! Every one of our 2018 panelists has agreed to join us for an encore performance. 

* This will be far more than a mere rehash of last year's information. Each one of our speakers has redoubled his efforts in research, innovation, and application. Each segment will be chock full of new ideas.* 

If you thought last year's Summit was useful, wait until you see what we have in store for you in 2019! 

2018 Summit attendees were ignited to action by the information they learned. As reports of implementation came in, we were thrilled. It was clear that coaches understood the value of this revolutionary approach to player development. Coaches and players at every level were seeing previoulsy unimaginable results. 

To our delight, instructors and coaches were applying what they had learned in insprired and innovative fashion. But, in time, it became evident that the changes being made, while often quite good, were falling short of being great. Training strategies were not always being individualized to meet the needs of every player. We realized that with a few adjustments good could indeed become great!

The obvious next step was to develop and present a simple process that would facilitate the development of customized dynamical systems training plans that could be laser-targeted to address the complex needs of every athlete -- regardless of age and/or ability level. 

In that light ...

This year's theme will be:

A Dynamical Systems Approach To Hyper-individualization of Pitcher and Hitter Training

Attendees will learn quick and easy processes that will allow them assess, categorize, individualize and prioritize training interventions to optimize results for each player. 

We'll present real-world case studies that will illuminate the key components of player assessment and training plan development/execution. 

Each participant will recieve a comprehensive workbook that will facilitate comprehension of the material and will optimize the learning process.

 Much of the information will come from Frans' new book, The Anatomy of Agility 

(not yet published). 

You'll be among the first to have access to these transformational ideas.