mannytorres19

Welcome to Mannytorres19.com. This is my therapy!  A baseball, coaching baseball, and fitness blog providing youth baseball players information on fundamental play, tips on practice regimens for coaches and fun ways to stay physically fit.

My name is Manny Torres and I am the owner and operator of this blog.  I began Mannytorres19.com in November of 2009 as a way to give myself the opportunity to show my passion for baseball, coaching and fitness. My passion for baseball has existed in my blood since the day I picked one up. I was blessed to have played at the high level, baseball has given me the opportunity to network and meet people from all over the world.

All my time and energy is devoted to my baseball program that I started five years ago, Technique Tigers Future Stars Baseball Academy.  The academy has 210 current members ages 6-18, five years ago we had four teams.  In 2009 we had 19 teams. A big reason why I started this program was because I found that kids were not playing enough baseball.  I found that a significant decline in youth athletes enrolling in baseball was very obvious to me at the time.  So I did my homework, sat in the local park bleachers, watched teams practice and play games, to see what may be the cause for this decline. I realized after a full summer of driving from field to field watching from a distance, kids were bored. Kids were failing as individuals in a game of failure.  Not only was the failure rate high but they did not understand why. This is a direct result on how volunteer coaches coach and teach during practice. Volunteers are ALL well intended, but many lack the knowledge and the ability to run a fun filled, effective, efficient practice. The triangle of success begins with PREPARATION at the peak, practice is preparation to experience SUCCESS, when kids experience success they feel CONFIDENT. Kids failing at a game of failure  can really be discouraged and keep kids from wanting to play baseball. Nobody goes to the field and says “ok I am ready to fail”.  Yet if coaches do not run a fun filled, effective, efficient practice with structure, failure is bound to exist.

Baseball is described as a slow sport by some, to me it’s the fastest game on the planet. Pitchers can throw a 5oz round object up to 100MPH in the Major Leagues.  Athletes can run down to first in 3.4 seconds. Outfielders can go from a stand still position to running full speed to a gap to catch a ball. Baseball is not a slow sport, not a fast sport, it’s an EXPLOSIVE sport. As a baseball player, you must take your body from a stand still position to top speed over and over again throughout the game. All of this needs training, coaching and teaching.

Gone are the days where you show up to the field, spread the kids out, one kid hits, everyone else chases balls down, etc. That’s boring, not fun, waste of time. Kids in today’s society live at a faster pace than we have ever experienced in the history of mankind and it’s getting faster by the minute with all the updated technology. So if we live in such a fast world and baseball is an explosive sport, what do you think kids want to experience? They want to experience speed, change and  transitions. This blog will give you tips on how to run fun filled effective efficient structured practice routines. Mannytorres19.com will help players stay up on the latest Techniques for sound fundamentals and teach everyone how to have fun to stay fit!!!