Dynamic Practice Organization will make any coach look like a genius! Emanski details a complete practice program based on the same drills featured at Baseball World’s Training Center in Orlando, Fla. This is a proven training program that will help improve team batting practice, infield, outfield and conditioning drills.
55 minutes.




Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Video Review:

"The best video ever produced on the subject of practice organization has hit the market in Baseball World's Dynamic Practice Organization.

Tom Emanski, who has led his Baseball World's teams to AAU national titles in 1990 (12 -year olds), 1991 (13-year olds) and 1992 (11 year olds), divulges for the first time training secrets which have allowed his teams to be successful in national competition. His organization philosophy is based on the same training techniques the Navy uses to teach combat pilots. Emanski states that if a baseball player makes a mistake, he can go home. But, if a fighter pilot makes a mistake, he is usually dead. That is why emulating the training techniques of Navy pilots can pay dividends.

It is also important to note that his 12-year old AAU national champions in 1990 did not commit a ground ball fielding error in eight games during the tournament while going undefeated. His teaching techniques are worth taking a close look by all coaches.

His practice organization philosophy centers around a 5-point plan. Each day begins with a briefing to players in class where proper techniques are discussed about upcoming drills of the day. To learn proper fundamentals of a skill (such as fielding) Emanski slows down the athletic movements so each player can actually feel the proper techniques of the baseball skill. After this is mastered, the complexity of drills is speeded up to game rhythms. The fifth point in the plan has players meeting with the coach after practice for a debriefing to learn how to iron out mistakes which were made during practice. Lieutenant William Riley, a US Navy fighter pilot and Top Gun graduate, said this same organizational pattern takes place in Navy flight school.

Emanski delves into 11 drills which will undoubtedly take players of all ages to another level in their playing career. The drills include:

~ Pop/Pull Drill
~ Ground Ball Circle Drill
~ Bare Hand Drill
~ V drill
~ Pass Patterns' Drill
~ Tennis Racket I Drill
~ Tennis Racket II Drill
~ Soft Toss Creep
~ Greenie Board B.P.
~ Rocket Relay
~ Call The Cutoff

I enjoyed the thought process which went into each drill, but my favorite was the Greenie Board B.P., which is patterned after Navy fighter pilot records which are listed for all pilots to see.

In this drill, players are divided into groups of four and allowed to bad. During the first cycle, batters are allowed to take five swings. A coach grades a player as follows:

~ 4 points - Hits a Missile
~ 3 points - Good Hit
~ 2 points - Fair Hit
~ 1 point - Poor Hit
~ 0 points - Missed ball or did not swing at strike.

After all groups go through the 5-swing cycle, they commence through a 4-swing cycle, 3-swing cycle, 2-swing cycle and a 1-swing cycle can get bonus swings as long as he earns 3 or 4 points on each swing. After two weeks, all the points are tallied, and listed for all players to see where they stack up with the competition. Those rated low are given extra instruction and drills so they improve.

All coaches on all levels of baseball can learn from this video - another in a long line of superb tapes from Tom Emanski.


... By Lou Pavlovich, Editor: Collegiate Baseball Newspaper