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Edmond Elite Academy brings professional baseball training programs to your community. We have a teaching staff of award-winning and experienced professional baseball instructors to help your player get a jump on the competition.
Our mission is to cultivate the next generation of athletes by developing a foundation built on fundamentals
Edmond Elite Academy brings professional baseball training programs to your community. We have a teaching staff of award-winning and experienced professional baseball instructors to help your player get a jump on the competition.
Our mission is to cultivate the next generation of athletes by developing a foundation built on fundamentals and proper techniques at an early age. We offer young players a unique opportunity to elevate their game through meticulously crafted camps with a low player-coach ratio, designed to foster skill in a fun and fast-paced series of drills that cover every facet of the game. Our commitment lies in empowering these budding talents with the tools and knowledge essential for taking their performance to the next level.
Participants of every skill level will be challenged through precise skill instruction and targeted drill work in our camps. Our drill progressions are designed to develop positive habits while enhancing an overall skill level in baseball. Group instruction, private lessons, and camp sessions are comprehensive, encompassing specialized training in the key areas of pitching, hitting, fielding, and baserunning. Our goal is to foster a holistic improvement in players, ensuring a well-rounded mastery of essential skills in the game.
Digging deeper into TrackMan Baseball’s inner workings, I’ve learned it’s quite a technological marvel. At its core, the system utilizes Doppler radar—the same tech used to forecast weather—to track baseballs in flight. When a pitch is thrown or a ball is hit, TrackMan sends out radio waves that bounce off the movi
Digging deeper into TrackMan Baseball’s inner workings, I’ve learned it’s quite a technological marvel. At its core, the system utilizes Doppler radar—the same tech used to forecast weather—to track baseballs in flight. When a pitch is thrown or a ball is hit, TrackMan sends out radio waves that bounce off the moving object. The collected bounce-back data lets the system calculate a wealth of information with precision accuracy.
The equipment is strategically placed in ballparks, usually mounted above the field level, ensuring an unobstructed view of the plays. Once set up, it’s all about the radar beams. These beams cover the entire field and capture data points from the moment the ball is pitched until the play is completed. Thanks to sophisticated algorithms, it’s not just about one static reading but a continuous flow of data that creates a comprehensive trajectory profile of each movement. This trajectory includes:
With this information, players get nearly instantaneous feedback, allowing them to adjust their techniques on the fly. Catchers can evaluate their throw down to second, pitchers can tweak their grip to perfect that curveball, and batters can understand what made their last hit soar or flounder. TrackMan doesn’t stop there—it overlays this data onto a 3D model of the field, giving users a rich visual replay that highlights the raw numbers’ real-world implications.
The system isn’t static either; it’s continually updating. The data fed back into TrackMan ensures that it’s learning and adapting, refining its accuracy with every pitch and hit. This dedication to ongoing improvement means that the information I get today might be even more refined tomorrow, providing an endlessly evolving tool for player development and game strategy.
When I first laid eyes on the data pouring in from TrackMan systems, I knew player development in baseball was about to undergo a transformation. Today, TrackMan is a cornerstone in fine-tuning the skills of hitters and pitchers, largely due to its granular level of detail in performance analytics.
Hitters leverage the system to enhance their batting by meticulously examining their swing mechanics. They analyze the exit velocity and launch angle for every hit, aiming to achieve the optimal conditions for home runs and line drives. Since these metrics directly correlate with the quality of contact and overall success as a batter, players who dial in their technique based on TrackMan data see substantial improvements at the plate.
Pitchers, on the other hand, use TrackMan to refine their artillery. They obsess over pitch velocity, movement, and spin rate, which are crucial for deceiving batters and dominating the game. Being able to analyze every pitch’s trajectory gives pitchers the unprecedented ability to tweak the tiniest aspects of their deliverance, sometimes leading to groundbreaking changes in their performance.
Moreover, player conditioning and injury prevention have reached new heights thanks to the insights provided by TrackMan. Trainers and medical staff scrutinize the data to spot inefficiencies or potentially harmful patterns in a player’s motion, enabling targeted preventative measures and corrective exercises. This aspect of development is pivotal for prolonging careers and maintaining peak physical form throughout the grueling baseball season.
It’s clear that TrackMan is an integral tool that cultivates talent and edges players closer to perfection with each session. As I’ve watched athletes interact with this technology, I’ve witnessed the rapid progression from raw potential to polished prowess. The insights gained from TrackMan don’t just highlight areas for improvement; they fuel a data-driven approach to evolving a player’s entire game.
Launched in 2013, HitTrax is the first and only baseball simulator on the market. It offers players personalized statistics helping them become more in tune with their playing techniques when practicing in an indoor training environment. It does this by transforming any battering cage into a high-tech analytics and stats
Launched in 2013, HitTrax is the first and only baseball simulator on the market. It offers players personalized statistics helping them become more in tune with their playing techniques when practicing in an indoor training environment. It does this by transforming any battering cage into a high-tech analytics and stats center enabling players to enhance their hitting and pitching styles before stepping on the playing field.
As well as individual players being able to see statistics, coaches are also able to capture real-time videos to deconstruct the measured result of the player’s swing. Using the system’s latest addition, a high-speed video capture option called the VCAM (Video Capture and Analysis Module), coaches are able to put two videos next to each other so they can visually compare and contrast a player’s technique. Coaches can point out to players what their swing execution looks like during an optimal at-bat as opposed to a weak grounder to shortstop.
Baseball and softball players of all ages and abilities can increase their technique and skills using the HitTrax system and have the added element of competition and instant evaluations to facilitate progress.
Now let’s review some of the basics and the ways HitTrax aids coaches to assess their hitters:
There are two ways to evaluate EV and assess a player with HitTrax:
While launch angle is basically an offshoot of the swing, bat path, and timing, it is a key metric to consider when evaluating batted ball output. An athlete may be able to hit a ball hard, but it is important that the athlete hit the ball at ideal trajectories to optimize productivity.
For example, an athlete may hit a ball (let’s say 90-100 mph with relative regularity), but if the launch angle for batted balls is low, the hitter is essentially hitting a lot of ground balls. Now while these balls have a higher propensity to go through the infield for base hits, this athlete is not realizing their power potential.
HitTrax identifies hard hit balls as any ball within 90% of the player’s peak EV. So if a player’s peak EV is 100 mph, any ball hit 90 mph or harder would be considered a HHB. It is important to note that even for balls that fall slightly under the HHB threshold HitTrax can still produce positive outcomes as these are batted balls (with proper launch angle) that likely fall in front or between outfielders.
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