The 6th Tool - Pitch Recognition with Dr. Peter Fadde
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Guest Bio:
Dr. Peter Fadde, founder of Game Sense Sports Pitch Recognition Software and author of the ebook The 6th Tool - Pitch Recognition.
Summary:
On this episode, Host Geoff Rottmayer sits down with Dr. Peter Fadde of Game Sense Sports Software. We discussed his software games sense sports app and pitch recognition.
Show Notes:
In this conversation Dr. Fadde talks about:
- How is the fascination with pitch recognition started?
- The thought process he had when he was going through this process.
- How we do not train kids to properly see the ball.
- Recognizing shapes, color, the spin of baseball.
- It takes time to build mental data based on pitches.
- What big leaguers are doing that we should be doing.
- It only takes 5 minutes to train and make a part of your routine.
- The Game Sense Sports Software and its objective.
- How important the first third window of picking the ball up is.
- The decision making process in picking baseball up early.
- Eliminating pitches to improve the odds of recognition.
- The role practice has and building the mental database.
- and much more.
