Ep. 11 - Lanc Crochet: South Louisiana Select Baseball | Youth Development
Miracles in Meat Podcast | Ep. 11 – Lance Crochet: Building Leaders Through Baseball
More Than Just a Game: Youth Development Through Baseball
In this episode of Miracles in Meat, brought to you by Bourgeois Meat Market, Shane sits down with Coach Lance Crochet of South Louisiana Select Baseball Academy in Houma, Louisiana, to discuss how baseball is more than just a sport—it’s a life-changing tool for youth development. Coach Crochet shares how his program helps young athletes build discipline, leadership, and work ethic that carry over far beyond the field.
Inside This Episode:
⚾ How South Louisiana Select Baseball is shaping the next generation in Houma, LA
⚾ The role of mentorship, teamwork, and responsibility in youth development
⚾ Life lessons from baseball that apply to career, family, and success
⚾ Why building character matters as much as winning games
Why You Should Listen:
If you’re a parent, coach, or anyone invested in youth development, this episode highlights the power of sports in building leadership, discipline, and lifelong success—values that Bourgeois Meat Market has upheld for over 130 years in Houma and South Louisiana.
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Transcript
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You're listening to the Miracles in Meat Podcast. I'm Shane Thibodeau,
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the fourth generation butcher at one of the oldest meat markets in the world.
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My great-grandfather started this business by slaughtering one cow or pig at
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a time and selling the cuts door-to-door on horse and buggy.
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Today, our products were enjoyed across the globe. I will attempt to give you
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some insight as to how we got here and explore the challenges we've had along the way.
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At Bourgeois, our mission is to preserve our heritage generation after generation
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through legendary Cajun flavors and the development of relationships, not customers.
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Since 1891, Bourgeois has maintained age-old culinary traditions that fueled
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the South Louisiana lifestyle.
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Over the past 133 years, our Cajun products have gained global recognition,
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and for tens of thousands of
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folks around the world, the Bourgeois Cajun Lady logo is a symbol of home.
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Today, the fourth-generation butchers sit at the nine-foot maple block with
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loyal customers to discuss the adventures, skills, and passions that guide each of their legacies.
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These conversations will become priceless resources for future generations of any industry.
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This is our way of maintaining the spirit, purpose, and traditions of our lost
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arts in the world of change.
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133 years, four generations. We're just getting started.
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I always cross all right
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before we get into it today i just wanted to explain
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something about the podcast so this is the miracles
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and meat podcast but i honestly don't know how often
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we're going to be talking about meat maybe we will
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maybe we won't if that's what you want to hear
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drop us a drop us a message on our website we up
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at the top we have a podcast tab and
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you can click on that and you can submit us a question or an
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audio file and we'll read it and we'll get into
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it here on the podcast but other than that if it goes
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there it goes there what we're really focusing on
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in this podcast is having
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conversations with our customers about or around their passions you know there's
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shared passions or or maybe something that's unique to them but and I think
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you kind of picked up on that we've gone from teaching to being a chef running restaurants.
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Flying kites we're gonna go everywhere we're getting we did some spearfishing.
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It's going to be a wide variety, I'm sure. And I don't know what the future
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holds because we have a lot of customers.
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We got a lot of loyal customers that do all sorts of crazy and amazing things.
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And a lot of them, even though we've known them for a long time,
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I don't truly know what they do or how into it they are.
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But I'm going to find out because I have a long list of people that I want to
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get to and sit down and have these conversations with and just see what I can learn.
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That's what it's about. I'm just trying to learn and I figured maybe other people
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want to want to learn too.
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So this episode here is Lance Crochet, Coach Lance Crochet.
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He has the South Louisiana Select Baseball Academy over in Houma and what Lance
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is doing is special to me because it's not about baseball.
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I don't really care about baseball but I do care
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about taking something that that you're
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good at you know and using it for more
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than what it is in this case he's taking baseball and
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he's using baseball to take young boys and
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turn them into young men and that's something that I think maybe we're lacking
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these days is is more guys like Lance that can that actually have the ability
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to do this that can that can lead a group of 14 year olds into becoming you know respectful.
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Responsible young men and you know this
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is something that baseball is something that Lance
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has taken and maybe really had
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you know had a huge impact on his life and how he turned
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out and he wants to give back to the sport and he's very
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passionate about it and you'll hear that in his in this conversation but
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we're going to talk about baseball we're going to talk about youth development
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we're going to talk about parenting and if
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you are a parent you want to be a parent if you're
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a coach of any sport if you want to be a coach one day i
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think this is a great episode you'll definitely pick up some tools to use i
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have already and let's get into it this is lance crochet went a whole lot i
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was kind of waiting around all day to go to work when it slowed down during
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the Christmas month and stuff like that where it was just lessons,
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no team practices and development.
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I realized that after like two years in a row, like something was wrong,
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like I shouldn't be feeling like this.
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And my wife was recommended I talk to somebody.
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So I went to see a therapist and she told me, it's called the Wintertime Blues,
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whatever, and she complained a little bit. And I was like, all right.
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Then she told me about, you know, some people just have a busy mind and the
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best thing you can do is because you always found ways to, To stay busy and
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be busy and do more. You should go do that.
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Feed it. Feed it. That's about it. That's the only thing that'll ease it,
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right? Yeah. So I was like, man, I'm going to do insurance. You have a right?
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Type like journal type type things or
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or whatever write something that you're gonna let all your players read or something
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for the coach to read i'll do i mean i'll write my practice plans and stuff
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i have like three i was kind of yesterday it's like close to 350 different notes
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yeah in my notepad in my phone i'm the same way and i like to i have i have
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i have categories for my notes,
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and then i start to get out of whack where i don't click
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on the right category so then every category just
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has every aspect of my life and all the notes involved
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yeah i'm the same exactly
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i try to headline it title it
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perfectly and organize it oh from
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jump but like no man sometimes i'm
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like where did that go why is it not coming
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up and then i had
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put it in pages on my ipad it all intertwined i
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just gotta figure it out same same exact
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but i don't i don't write much uh unless it's
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for work and whatnot but i used to have man i
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when i feel like my mind's my mind's busy writing down what's busy sometimes
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shows me that you know five of the things don't need to be and i do like i do
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like when that happens when i when i catch something that i'm overthinking that
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I don't need to be thinking about.
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I know what you're saying. A guy explained it to me. Uh.
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If there's 10 light bulbs in your head, some people function best when just
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two are bright and the other eight are kind of dull.
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Some people can't dull those other eight.
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They have 10 lights trying to shine bright and then they're kind of like frantic
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and a mess at everything.
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You got to take care of the light shining the brightest and try and sort it
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out in your brain like that.
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Make sure you put that one to the forefront. front uh that
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way you can you can handle that stuff without
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those other those other lights going completely off he said
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there's some people that can handle more than that you
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know there's some people that can have 10 light shining bright and and function
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and there's certain days where i can function with 10 light shining bright and
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there's certain days i i can't and that that That little thing has kind of helped
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me when days where I'm not able to get all those or,
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you know, 10 are bright and I'm everywhere.
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I'm just like, man, where's the brightest ones? Yeah. Focus on those.
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I'm good at bouncing around.
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I'm good at something is so important and so, and I need to do it and I can go boom, nevermind.
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I'm a hundred percent on this for three days.
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And some people can't handle that. You know, Bo, me and Bo are completely, complete opposite.
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It Bo starts and finishes and
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you don't start nothing else until this is finished and I I want
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to write down 10 things and start them all at the same time and
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then whenever I get stuck on this one I move to this one and that
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that doesn't work for him but that's we work well together yeah
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we just complement each other I gotta actually
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just question how does so what's
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your title at uh bourgeois like what you and Bo do manage man
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okay so as a manager how do you
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always handle being the person that has
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to answer the questions i'm not that that's
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my that's my i guess that would be my answer is
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that over the years we've gotten so good at
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i guess letting go of that idea and not needing to be we don't need to be the
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one like you don't i don't need to be i don't need to be the best butcher anymore
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i don't need to be the best salesman anymore i don't I need to cook the best
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boudin because we have trained guys to be better than us in all those situations.
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I need to be the best at seeing everything at once and tending to.
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You know, certain aspects, but not, but knowing that I'm going tend to it,
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but I'm not taking over it.
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You are the, you are the priority on that. You're the lead on it.
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I'll just come tend to it.
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But I got good at not taking over that and that helps a lot.
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So yeah, just, just delegating and, and, and training and, you know,
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I've got counterparts upon counterparts that have gotten better at all of the
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things that, you know, that they were hired to do.
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They're now better than me. And I trust that they can do it better.
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You know, so a lot of times if the question's coming to me, I would much rather
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point to who's the expert on that.
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And you answering that question and giving him that time might,
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it takes away reps from this guy, you know,
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whether it's him training or him bonding connecting with that person you take
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that away by always having every answer so yeah i think over the years i've
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gotten away from being that that person that that has all the answers you know.
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I guess it's because y'all are more process established and process oriented because,
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y'all bring in a guy y'all training to be better than you and that's your
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guy yeah so we we got had a couple of guys like that at select
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however they're dealing with parents asking
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questions about something and of course they always
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want to make sure it could be that it could be parents asking me questions whatever
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I'm okay with answering questions don't get me wrong yeah but sometimes man
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my wife likes a question so when I get home I'm like I've spent the last two
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weeks answering everybody's questions nobody's answered the questions I have
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I had my research for it and get better at it. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Like what for me it's like just can i just can i just not answer questions tonight
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please yeah just tell me how your day was tell me you know something yeah that you made you smile today.
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That's important and me and my wife do the same
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thing in fact like two days i don't
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know two days ago is probably where i hit
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a i hit a i hit a limit and it was just like cancel
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everything we're doing right now stop talking we we have
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to just stop we need our whatever we
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need a 30 minute of nothing right like first
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before we go any anything further let's just
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have nothing for 30 minutes i definitely get
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like that and she does too and she she understands you
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know as long as we say it in time everything works
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yeah yeah i can't lie when i asked you that question i was praying that
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you give me a 1-800 number to call a guy that all has all the answers i'm
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just kidding no but like with baseball when
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I first started select trying to
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knowing I wanted to do it a certain way
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development first not weak
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tournament over here let's go play there and win that tournament let's like develop men
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do it the right way that can carry on
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not just on the baseball field because sports.
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Ends for everybody but throughout life I didn't
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have nobody for a couple years to call to get those questions
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answered because i was i was
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doing it different yeah i mean they just gotta know baseball they just gotta
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know you see it's pretty easy to know baseball it's hard to play baseball if
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you don't have the tools it's much easier to play baseball when you develop
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the tools to play it to play it fast to play it at a high level.
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Even if you don't know the game. Yeah, 100%. You still got the tools to play
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it. It makes it much easier.
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So it slows down how you respond in time where you're not frantic.
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If I teach a guy everything about baseball and he knows it in and out, he can coach the team.
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But he's still weak to throw the – he has to field every ball perfect because
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his arm's too weak where if he bobbles one, that guy's safe all the time.
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That's no good. Mm-hmm.
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All right. before we go any further let's do this lance this is kind of what
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we do on every podcast and it's something i want to continue to do no matter
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who it is no matter what we're talking about i want to ask you about your earliest
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memories of the meat market.
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Us getting uh making your mama mad because you and benson got muddy,
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i remember going to your grandpa's house and uh he would
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you uh we'll go get some sugar cane and he would cut it for us and
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that's i mean i at that time i was just a goofy little kid i really we were
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just trying to play soccer and stuff so the meat market i didn't even realize
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that like your grandfather was bourgeois he he had established that place he
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lived across the street from it,
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which is by the way we're world renowned for the best beef jerky ever that's
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right uh and we got some ribbons from y'all while back that was pretty damn
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good but my earliest memories of those riding the go-kart over there and me
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you and benson beating the crap out each other all night,
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on on your bed i think y'all at an apartment at the time yeah and upstairs dude
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i don't know how we popped the brand new sock and boppers on each other's faces
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how did we not fall through the floor that night a couple pairs and benson can
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benson got a heavy hands too i remember being on On a roll,
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on a roll to Friday night, I remember the first time,
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this is about to be marked, but the first time I've ever seen or had someone
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flick a booger at me was Benson.
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I remember I did good in soccer bagels that night. Benson flickered boogers.
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I was going at it again the next morning and I couldn't even get up on the bed.
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Y'all were working me over. That's going to be my new question for everyone.
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When was the first time, who's the first person to flick a booger at you? That's important news.
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What's Benson's last name? LaBeouf. Benson LaBeouf. Shout out Benson LaBeouf.
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So Benson actually moved to Arkansas. We lost him.
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He lives in Benton, Arkansas now. I wonder if he's still flicking boogers. We have to keep him.
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So, man, sugar cane. Me and Brody were talking about that earlier this morning.
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You think kids still eat sugar cane?
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Not like we did. We ate it about every day. Dude. I got sick on sugar cane.
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I remember how I still. Shout out to all the farmers out there.
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I can't remember the taste of it.
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At my house, my grandpa had a garden and he had like four stalks.
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And he would it was the same like the same way your grandpa cut it for us my
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grandfather did the same exact thing so look i know miss ania got mad at us
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when y'all got muddy but it was worth the walk.
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Cane field man how far was it through that muddy it wasn't so when we were young
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it was about 12 miles but now it's probably 300 yards if i had to guess,
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why did we not take the road could have we had no positive influences that was
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That was a 12-year-old. That was an adolescent 12-year-old.
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That was boys being boys, man. That was don't get dirty. We got to go somewhere.
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Okay, mom. All right, Miss Anita.
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One for three. Right through the mud. All right. So obviously the beef jerky
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is your favorite product. That's why I bought you some. I appreciate that.
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All right. What about any cooking styles? Do you have anything you like to do
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at home? Cooking-wise, does the wife cook?
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Yeah, the wife cooks. What I've tried to do is set aside at least one day for me to,
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because I do baseball at night, work during the day, is to go home and do supper
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and make it like a nice supper. You do it. On the weekends when I'm home, yeah.
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I do a big, usually cook a big pork butt, briskets, stuff whenever we have LSU
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parties and whatnot. We built our house to host people because our family is all around us.
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So we're kind of like the center and focal point for hosting.
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So we always have people over. But, uh, man, steaks, uh, shoot the other night,
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man, look, I did something new. I tried something new, uh.
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And I wind up on the pit, I use Wagyu tallow and Mediterranean seasoning to
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do like a veggie melt type thing.
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And I cook pork sirloin steaks on the pit next to it.
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And instead of eating a pork sirloin steak by itself, I wind up cutting them
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up and putting it in that. Bruh.
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Bruh. Come on, man. Uh, I've, I've been known to try, I've been known to get
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enough to cook where I can do two pans, uh, and experience, experience,
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uh, experiment with one. Yeah.
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Make sure the other one is like definitely to my wife's. I like that idea.
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Just because like. A little test batch on the side that no one has to know about.
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Yeah. And you know, I can peek them over a lot and then they're moving,
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uh, they bought a house about a year and a half ago and haven't fully moved
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into it yet. that they're coming to live by us. Where are they?
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So they're going to go to the Zalman's? They are, man, remember A&D used to
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do all them coupon shopping stuff, so she had that house full of Windex and Two Faces and stuff.
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I think she's, A&D, you single-handedly put Eckerd's, Eckerd's and K&B out of business.
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And from that point on, she went to Dell Champs with the triple coupon shop and put them out.
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But anyways, they come over uh and ain't
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d is a leftover fiend and she'll eat anything
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i cook sometimes i i think she really enjoys what i cook and
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sometimes when i experiment i think she just tells
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me that she likes it yeah then makes uncle pete eat it
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no but uh man who taught you how to cook uh man did that come later yeah it
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really didn't you know when i was in college i had a george foreman grilled
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chicken breast with a piece of cheese on it. Uh...
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I'd have to say, to give credit, I'd have to give credit to YouTube.
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Yeah, it's fine. That's what it's for.
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Mad Scientist Barbecue has some good stuff with the briskets and the pork butt. I like that.
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Now, I always take what I see and then go my way with it.
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I've gotten pretty good at a lot of the meats. You got a smoker at home getting
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into smoking? I got a Rectech.
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That's what you got to do with these days. I got a cold smoker in that,
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on that thing. It's awesome. It's a pellet grill.
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I want to get a new one, but the Rectech's been so great to me.
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But it's just, it's huge, man. It's a big, like, commercial.
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But my dad got me, my real dad got me that.
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And then from that point, I was kind of like, man, I just was like,
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I got a good-ass tool, and I'm a terrible, or I don't know how to cook well.
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I'm going to learn how to cook well.
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And then I just basically, first of all, learning the meats is the easiest part. Yeah.
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The latest thing I've learned that I've gotten really good at is cooking down
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like a pork roast on the stove, bro, black iron.
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Now that, you can pressure cook it. My wife tried to give me a pressure cook
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it for a taco soup the other day.
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I said, no. I came home early to cook. I'm going the long route.
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So, you know, keep adding the water, cook it down.
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But, yeah. something about it yeah uh i'll
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tell you what i did learn how to cook chicken pretty good too bro garlic jalapeno
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rub uh you get the chicken breast you cut it in half then you cut the big part
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of chicken breast in half so they all are on the same size he throuse makes
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a garlic jalapeno rub all right so i'll do that the night before i'll soak it
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in dill pickle juice overnight okay
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It's a Chick-fil-A method. Mm-hmm. Might as well. Mm-hmm.
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I try not to let it be in there for more than 12 hours, though,
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because it'll taste like a chicken pickle.
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And I don't want that. I just want that little too. So if you cook it,
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if your pellet grills holds temperature at 300 consistent, don't cook it at
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325 or 350, like most people say.
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Cook that chicken breast once you cut it like that.
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At 300 10 minutes on each side flip at
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the 10 minute mark 10 minutes on the other side take it
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off and trust it just trust it
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dude it is you can put it in the refrigerator and you
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pull it out three days later and it's juicy i love chicken
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it's something i don't ever cook because we don't carry it but
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when i go places like if i go to big mics i usually get the smoked chicken i
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got enough i got enough beef and pork around me you know so some place that's
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got a good Good juicy chicken I want it You cook much And use barbecue sauce
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The only thing I use barbecue sauce on,
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Is We have a Ritual.
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We hunt at my Uncle Donald's camp in Liberty, Mississippi.
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And one of our camp rituals is pork steaks on the fire. So the pork steak, we do a Boston butt.
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We do like a three-quarter inch cut on the bone, bone in to be basically a seven steak on the butt.
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And we season it the same way every time, which includes our jerky seasoning.
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But anyway, we season it beforehand. It's like the only thing that I marinate
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as well. I just realized that I don't, I don't marinate steaks or anything,
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but we, we marinated, you know, wrap them up at the market, hit the camp.
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And then we wait till it's like 1.00 AM and the fire has been blazing all day
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and you got a huge pile of embers and we, you know, have like a little swing grill that goes over.
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And we won't put them on unless it's just blazing lava hot and the flames coming
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like two to three inches through the grill.
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But we'll throw them on there and then toward the end, we'll do a Sweet Baby
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Ray original and give it a couple flips and kind of let that char on it.
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And it's a no fork or knife meal required. You just get your plate with your
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steak on it, or you just get handed your steak and you stand around the fire
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and you eat your steak. And that's what we have for dinner.
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That's like a long time ritual of ours.
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And we'll never stop. But that's about the only time I use a barbecue.
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How do you like cooking over that with that little swing grill? Love it.
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You got to have, you got to. Everyone has to experience that.
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Some never do some never you some never cook on
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open fire yeah i used
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to get the youtube videos of the guy guys in the mountains that
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are like it's i guess i don't know if it's called asmr or not but like they
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don't talk at all they're like a viking yeah yeah chopping stuff up and uh always
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got knives that are way too big you get them chopping it up then they throwing
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it in the pan and they chopping it up and then the lat it ends with them taking a bite out of it and.
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I hadn't seen anybody mess it up now of course it's a video and you can right
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but there's when we build
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when we my wife i promised her
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a pool years ago and i didn't want to wait to sign a
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contract and wait two years to get it so i kind
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of put it off and i felt behind because that light bulb was
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very very dull in my head uh but
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uh behind it
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we had agreed that we were going to put the old uh
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a brick you know brick uh fireplace on
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the back side of it and then like a a stove
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thing on top i guess you i don't call it a pizza stove
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yeah a little slide stove right i was got
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excited about cooking on that and then i uh the light bulb went
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off a little bit uh but but it's coming
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back on yeah you just need need those
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little kicks every now and then yeah man but there's
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something about sitting by the fire for the three hours beforehand
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and building the anticipation you don't
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just get to walk in turn your stove on and start cooking i sit
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there you watch the fire you get it just right and all of
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that adds you know my dad's
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a fan of cooking on like a wood a wood
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burning uh pit i don't i
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like the pellet just because i can get on the app on my phone
00:26:13.190 --> 00:26:15.950
turn it on get it to temp and i'm not
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good with the fire stuff yet but i want
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i like the uh i watch the.
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Outdoor boys on on youtube we do as well uh
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and i i want to prep meals like
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like if we go camping we go camping normally once a
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year but we stay in like a cabin because i can't stay in rvs uh for
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halloween uh you know they always got places to
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make a little fire for a little fiber i want to start cooking where
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you wrap it in aluminum foil buried in ashes come back in two hours
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and like it's done yeah i'm just we got 30 people there and i'm like these people
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could be counting on me right yeah it's not something you do yeah yeah so but
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i think it'd be cool i guess next year my girls my youngest is a little older
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because she likes to help me cook my wife video me and her cooking one day,
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Put a phone down, told her to make a video, like a YouTube video because she
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watches a little YouTube kid.
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I get, I'm next to her in the video and she's talking and whatever.
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And I stirred a pot and I leaned over to look in it and she cracked me right
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in the jaw with a straight right.
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I looked at her and looked straight. And we stopped. I said,
00:27:29.107 --> 00:27:30.047
Lacey, watch this video.
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And I have a video of her cracking me in the jaw. just for no reason just me
00:27:34.487 --> 00:27:38.687
like looking over the pot like make i'm stirring it looking bro must be a tiktok
00:27:38.687 --> 00:27:43.527
trend or something hey she got me good she was three at the time gotta be careful oh,
00:27:44.727 --> 00:27:48.967
well all right let's get into some of so
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i guess what i'm interested in more than more than talking to people about the
00:27:56.167 --> 00:27:59.907
meat market and talking about cooking and briskets and stuff like that i love
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all that stuff but my bigger my bigger interest is in passions like people's passions and,
00:28:07.887 --> 00:28:12.087
why they're doing what they're doing and learning how they're doing it that
00:28:12.087 --> 00:28:17.207
you know at least the people i'm interested in yeah but i don't know what it
00:28:17.207 --> 00:28:20.947
is but like we're talking about the light bulbs that is a light bulb for me
00:28:20.947 --> 00:28:27.247
is it's like it's a curiosity it's just as good in other words, if I wasn't doing it,
00:28:27.367 --> 00:28:30.187
I would just be, I'd be doing it, but in a different way.
00:28:30.567 --> 00:28:35.367
I might be researching or whatever, but it's a curiosity.
00:28:37.067 --> 00:28:43.247
And now that, that curiosity has become a passion for me. And it's been fun
00:28:43.247 --> 00:28:44.707
and it's been really cool to learn.
00:28:44.887 --> 00:28:48.667
And it's helped, it's helped me with my other passions or, or,
00:28:48.687 --> 00:28:53.407
or endeavors, just digging into other people's, you know, their whys and their
00:28:53.407 --> 00:28:55.107
motivations and stuff. and,
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Sometimes when you hear something unrelated and you start to make those connections,
00:29:01.414 --> 00:29:07.734
it shows you how similar maybe this other guy is to you and how you can kind
00:29:07.734 --> 00:29:14.634
of use their successes and failures to kind of propel you before you go through those yourself.
00:29:14.634 --> 00:29:17.634
So in terms of
00:29:17.634 --> 00:29:21.294
let's let's call baseball we're gonna
00:29:21.294 --> 00:29:24.934
get further into this because i know it is i know it's complicated because
00:29:24.934 --> 00:29:27.634
i see it as i'm not
00:29:27.634 --> 00:29:30.754
talking to you necessarily about your passion for
00:29:30.754 --> 00:29:34.674
baseball as baseball as
00:29:34.674 --> 00:29:37.814
a sport well and i'll be i'll be honest i
00:29:37.814 --> 00:29:41.114
i don't know how passionate I am
00:29:41.114 --> 00:29:44.894
about baseball besides what
00:29:44.894 --> 00:29:47.774
it like what it teaches in the lesson because I
00:29:47.774 --> 00:29:52.954
like I don't really enjoy watching uh major league baseball or I went the first
00:29:52.954 --> 00:29:57.314
time I went to the hall of fame I didn't enjoy it that felt like I was it was
00:29:57.314 --> 00:29:59.894
kind of creepy until I got to the bottom floor where they had all the gold plaques
00:29:59.894 --> 00:30:05.174
that was cool I don't know and and look from me being a.
00:30:05.674 --> 00:30:08.614
Playing the sports when I was you know of course rec for the most part and
00:30:08.614 --> 00:30:11.374
uh and then high school baseball i like
00:30:11.374 --> 00:30:14.834
basketball more i just sucked at it that's honest
00:30:14.834 --> 00:30:18.014
and but it's so it's so cool and so interesting because
00:30:18.014 --> 00:30:21.374
you know i i didn't guess that you
00:30:21.374 --> 00:30:25.514
know when i see you i see you share things and i see you talking about things
00:30:25.514 --> 00:30:29.574
i don't guess that you're not passionate about baseball i assume that that's
00:30:29.574 --> 00:30:33.834
what feeds the fire but what i'm finding more and more that that's not always
00:30:33.834 --> 00:30:38.714
the case not not always what you know what you see people doing is not necessarily
00:30:38.714 --> 00:30:41.354
what they might be passionate about and,
00:30:42.094 --> 00:30:46.514
I guess more importantly it might not be the most important thing that they're
00:30:46.514 --> 00:30:49.534
doing what you see them doing might not be the most important thing that they're
00:30:49.534 --> 00:30:53.254
doing and I love that idea I'd say that for me,
00:30:55.028 --> 00:31:03.968
Development is my passion, and that passion started burning because I had something
00:31:03.968 --> 00:31:10.808
inside of me that felt like I needed to repay my debt to the youth in our area.
00:31:12.808 --> 00:31:17.368
Not specifically just Terrebonne Parish, but I grew up in Terrebonne Parish.
00:31:17.368 --> 00:31:20.468
It'd be terrible on Lafourche uh the trip
00:31:20.468 --> 00:31:23.328
within driving distance uh for
00:31:23.328 --> 00:31:29.888
an hour whatever I felt a dire need to repay my debt to the game of baseball
00:31:29.888 --> 00:31:37.208
for what it did for me and I knew I could could do that and then that evolved
00:31:37.208 --> 00:31:41.068
into being super passionate about development because,
00:31:41.888 --> 00:31:44.848
like I said earlier when I first started out I was a different coach I'm,
00:31:45.488 --> 00:31:49.328
i got better i get better every day i try to get better every day i try to learn
00:31:49.328 --> 00:31:58.728
something i want to be the best i can be because these young guys are trusting me they're trusting me,
00:31:59.388 --> 00:32:09.688
to do the best i can to give them the tools to reach their full potential uh potentials are weird,
00:32:10.748 --> 00:32:14.268
it's kind of like, who knows what the full potential is, right?
00:32:14.448 --> 00:32:21.428
But I know this, it's easy to live with working your tail off and at the end
00:32:21.428 --> 00:32:24.988
of the day, doing everything you can with what you're involved in.
00:32:25.068 --> 00:32:27.308
No matter if you're involved in 10 things, all right?
00:32:27.448 --> 00:32:31.528
When you're present in that moment of one of those 10 things,
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that 100% effort, 100% focus and control of how you respond has to kick in.
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That passion for development doesn't just stick with baseball now either.
00:32:44.337 --> 00:32:49.897
I want those guys to develop in the classroom as young men, in their other sports,
00:32:50.217 --> 00:32:55.317
the work ethic, all things they learn here and stuff we try to mold into them.
00:32:55.477 --> 00:32:59.557
And sometimes maybe we call it rewiring how they process things.
00:33:00.397 --> 00:33:06.177
We want that to stick with them as a life tool and something that they can take.
00:33:06.697 --> 00:33:10.177
If they walk through a door and have to play a dodgeball game,
00:33:10.977 --> 00:33:13.957
all right, we want that for them.
00:33:14.517 --> 00:33:16.817
We want that for them when they walk into the weight room.
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And we want them to understand how important it is to always seek development and be in that moment.
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Because, look, in the classroom, I wasn't, I was in the classroom, but I wasn't there.
00:33:32.437 --> 00:33:35.197
My last three or four semesters in
00:33:35.197 --> 00:33:38.697
college i had a 4.0 i don't
00:33:38.697 --> 00:33:41.937
know how the hell i could do it then but i couldn't do it i was
00:33:41.937 --> 00:33:45.177
just i wasn't i didn't have this whole mental
00:33:45.177 --> 00:33:48.697
process down packed and whatnot i was just going to
00:33:48.697 --> 00:33:52.937
school and telling a joke and getting
00:33:52.937 --> 00:33:55.637
in getting fussed but not getting in too much trouble because i've
00:33:55.637 --> 00:33:59.497
never been suspended anything but i don't
00:33:59.497 --> 00:34:04.837
know if i was i can't say that besides me having to repay my debt or feeling
00:34:04.837 --> 00:34:10.697
inside me to repay my debt to baseball and do it the best that i could ever
00:34:10.697 --> 00:34:15.857
and be the best at it for those those young guys that are going to count on
00:34:15.857 --> 00:34:17.737
me because i was a guy that counted on coaches before.
00:34:18.897 --> 00:34:24.037
Coach joe was a huge influence to me on that all right two time yeah little
00:34:24.037 --> 00:34:27.777
joe because he and he also he also took me in when i was in high school too
00:34:27.777 --> 00:34:33.417
whenever i was going through some rough times he's based my grandpa is my hero
00:34:33.417 --> 00:34:36.037
but little joe is probably my biggest influencer,
00:34:36.937 --> 00:34:42.217
and through baseball he did that for me and then what baseball did for me is
00:34:42.217 --> 00:34:44.837
baseball did for me itself with college and stuff.
00:34:45.177 --> 00:34:52.157
I just felt like, man, I wanted to give this area an avenue and repay my debt by helping others.
00:34:52.297 --> 00:34:56.937
And when I first started out, it was more about just getting good at baseball.
00:34:57.737 --> 00:35:01.497
And I didn't have the full development stuff figured out yet.
00:35:02.137 --> 00:35:05.017
That grew over the course of, that grew really fast actually,
00:35:05.157 --> 00:35:07.357
the course of like within two years.
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And then it just took off. it is
00:35:11.117 --> 00:35:14.657
all about development because my daughter
00:35:14.657 --> 00:35:18.177
does dance all right and you know
00:35:18.177 --> 00:35:22.577
what kind of thing i give her gifts christmas comes around santa claus passes
00:35:22.577 --> 00:35:30.837
for she's getting like stretching machines things like that i'll leave it up
00:35:30.837 --> 00:35:34.757
to santa claus's cousin to get her the other stuff but like.
00:35:36.132 --> 00:35:42.232
It's development. Now, also, with my kids at the house, my daughter has,
00:35:42.372 --> 00:35:44.032
she's 12 now, she's never been punished.
00:35:44.992 --> 00:35:52.132
I've always believed that you can learn from your mistakes and get better from
00:35:52.132 --> 00:35:57.952
them while paying the consequence or repaying your debt for that mistake through
00:35:57.952 --> 00:35:58.892
a personal development.
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My deal is push-ups, sit-ups, or squat jumps.
00:36:04.172 --> 00:36:07.752
So yes sir no sir yes ma'am no ma'am when aubrey
00:36:07.752 --> 00:36:10.512
was young we started with the push-ups he started on the
00:36:10.512 --> 00:36:13.452
knees doing the push you got it right i do that at select
00:36:13.452 --> 00:36:16.612
we try to enforce that at select you could
00:36:16.612 --> 00:36:20.032
be at the concession stand if your mama says hey you
00:36:20.032 --> 00:36:23.412
want a power eight yeah that's x
00:36:23.412 --> 00:36:26.492
amount of push-ups now they're nine they're learning i do push-ups they
00:36:26.492 --> 00:36:29.792
may be five they maybe 10 my 13's at 25 always
00:36:29.792 --> 00:36:32.712
been at 25 since she was six or
00:36:32.712 --> 00:36:35.552
seven and look i'll purposely continue on the conversation and
00:36:35.552 --> 00:36:38.472
just like quick questions uh trip
00:36:38.472 --> 00:36:41.472
up yeah you know when i get it the most i get
00:36:41.472 --> 00:36:44.492
it the most whenever i throw in a little joke in there and i'm
00:36:44.492 --> 00:36:47.632
like she lets her guard down yeah yeah yeah it
00:36:47.632 --> 00:36:50.412
was my 25 but look it's pretty cool
00:36:50.412 --> 00:36:53.472
when your daughter your daughter comes home and let you know that she
00:36:53.472 --> 00:36:56.252
in pe at the whole school she did the most
00:36:56.252 --> 00:36:59.292
push-ups out of boys and girls she did the most pull-ups
00:36:59.292 --> 00:37:02.352
a lot of the girls she did the most sit-ups
00:37:02.352 --> 00:37:05.892
all you could do in a minute like and
00:37:05.892 --> 00:37:08.672
she's not a big one but physical strength helps in everyday
00:37:08.672 --> 00:37:12.752
life too right i don't think punishing
00:37:12.752 --> 00:37:15.552
a kid and putting them in their room this is my personal opinion
00:37:15.552 --> 00:37:20.652
i raise my kids putting them in the room to think about it does anything for
00:37:20.652 --> 00:37:24.992
them mentally or physically when kids screw up it's pretty simple screw up they
00:37:24.992 --> 00:37:27.912
and they pretty much they don't have to figure out why they screwed up they
00:37:27.912 --> 00:37:31.852
did they know that like i screwed up but would they admit it sometimes no but.
00:37:31.852 --> 00:37:34.392
Like you as a parent you let them know you screwed up whatever.
00:37:34.932 --> 00:37:37.772
You the consequences of if for me
00:37:37.772 --> 00:37:40.532
if it's development based you get
00:37:40.532 --> 00:37:43.512
that in you getting stronger as well now we
00:37:43.512 --> 00:37:46.832
do have a funny little saying for our baseball players bro if you want to be
00:37:46.832 --> 00:37:54.092
stupid you're gonna be strong all right yeah uh because look we build men but
00:37:54.092 --> 00:38:02.652
for my daughter it it's helped that's helped her with being even better at at the dancing,
00:38:03.692 --> 00:38:10.352
side of things just having that strength so passion definitely development uh
00:38:10.352 --> 00:38:16.232
maybe it was baseball at first more so me wanting to repay my debt and do pass
00:38:16.232 --> 00:38:22.672
along what baseball did for me through others and do it at the highest level that I could provide.
00:38:24.403 --> 00:38:28.163
And when I got to that point a couple years ago, I did something different for
00:38:28.163 --> 00:38:30.503
a little while or on a different level.
00:38:31.463 --> 00:38:37.443
And now I'm back full time, as motivated as ever personally,
00:38:37.863 --> 00:38:44.403
to expand into other sides of development for our guys and provide that,
00:38:44.603 --> 00:38:49.763
which is the home field advantage stuff with Coach Brocklander, our boy, baby.
00:38:51.963 --> 00:38:55.223
And then eventually into the recovery side and I think we'll cover all three
00:38:55.223 --> 00:39:01.363
phases and I think we're working to get there pretty darn fast and I think it's pretty cool because,
00:39:02.223 --> 00:39:05.143
no questions asked if a guy makes it
00:39:05.143 --> 00:39:10.143
or doesn't make it he'll know like he'll have done everything he could too maybe
00:39:10.143 --> 00:39:16.263
it just wasn't in his cards but he can take that on to the next stage in his
00:39:16.263 --> 00:39:23.283
life where the development isn't just becoming the best at work or the best supervisor uh.
00:39:24.343 --> 00:39:27.403
It's seeing that there's different phases kind of
00:39:27.403 --> 00:39:30.903
like a piano helps people with math yeah because this is i don't
00:39:30.903 --> 00:39:33.883
know how to play piano but i do know that piano helps with math because
00:39:33.883 --> 00:39:36.843
it's three-dimensional or whatever you got the foot pedal you
00:39:36.843 --> 00:39:39.583
got the white keys you got the black keys it helps young kids with
00:39:39.583 --> 00:39:42.603
math if we're focusing on development in different
00:39:42.603 --> 00:39:45.523
areas and and intertwining everything you do and making it
00:39:45.523 --> 00:39:48.243
that like the mindset that can help
00:39:48.243 --> 00:39:52.383
you evolve and be all around i feel yeah if
00:39:52.383 --> 00:39:55.143
i'm wrong i don't mean nobody everybody's loved
00:39:55.143 --> 00:39:58.163
it so far it's just it's funny because
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when you think about baseball and you think about
00:40:01.023 --> 00:40:04.523
a place that trains you know youth
00:40:04.523 --> 00:40:08.403
athletes at the highest level you think about the
00:40:08.403 --> 00:40:11.223
swing and the pitch curveball and
00:40:11.223 --> 00:40:13.863
how to glove a ball but that's not
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what we're talking about yeah so like we're really what's
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important you know and i think more
00:40:20.403 --> 00:40:23.983
you know as time goes on i'm proving more and more that almost
00:40:23.983 --> 00:40:28.923
anything you pick whatever the thing is you know these kids pick baseball some
00:40:28.923 --> 00:40:35.003
kids pick martial arts dancing swimming but if they're if who's teaching them
00:40:35.003 --> 00:40:43.423
how to do that isn't focusing on using the thing as a way to teach this person how to learn,
00:40:44.183 --> 00:40:46.783
then I think they're missing out.
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A hundred percent. Think about it. Your grandpa, my grandpa.
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.980
It wasn't sports that did it for my grandpa. Maybe it was for you.
00:40:56.740 --> 00:40:59.780
But it was them getting up in the morning before school to work in the fields,
00:41:00.180 --> 00:41:04.260
running back to the front to catch the bus to go to school, getting off the
00:41:04.260 --> 00:41:06.820
bus, running to the fields to go back to work.
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That work taught them that work ethic and that strong-mindedness.
00:41:13.680 --> 00:41:17.380
You can do that with sports in this day and age because, of course,
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:19.900
we are a much more advanced civilization in society nowadays,
00:41:19.900 --> 00:41:21.920
and they have child labor laws too.
00:41:23.060 --> 00:41:26.900
But think about it we have guys that are they
00:41:26.900 --> 00:41:29.640
want more they're gonna do everything they can to be
00:41:29.640 --> 00:41:32.400
the best they can be at whatever they're doing we got guys now
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:36.800
that'll get up at four in the morning and work out before school we got guys
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.560
that'll work out at school and do workouts after they'll do training on their
00:41:40.560 --> 00:41:44.840
own then less like i don't care what you do or how much different things you
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:50.820
do when you're doing it it's a hundred percent uh and when you're doing it the right way,
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.580
when you're you're training for it it's the
00:41:54.580 --> 00:41:57.720
right way and i you cannot be involved rule
00:41:57.720 --> 00:42:01.120
them out you cannot be involved in something and not
00:42:01.120 --> 00:42:06.880
do extra my daughter is went all in on dance we she got away from soccer a little
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:13.600
bit and went all in on dance i'm fine with it most days she or a week she dances
00:42:13.600 --> 00:42:18.800
six days a week a good percentage of them she dances seven We do the extra,
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:21.480
Gymnastics or whatever lesson.
00:42:23.197 --> 00:42:26.377
We do extra training. She does extra stretching at home.
00:42:26.697 --> 00:42:32.117
We get her the equipment as part of like gifts or tools for development to try
00:42:32.117 --> 00:42:37.497
and make like when she gets older and she wants to be a doctor and a tiger girl.
00:42:37.677 --> 00:42:40.837
When she gets older and she goes to be a doctor, I want her to be comfortable
00:42:40.837 --> 00:42:43.557
going out and getting tools to help her development.
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Whether it's career, personal, lifestyle, whatever.
00:42:49.937 --> 00:42:55.097
Things that that'll stick, man. And I look, I love to spoil my kids too,
00:42:55.157 --> 00:42:57.817
but I would never buy my kid a brand new bat.
00:42:59.697 --> 00:43:05.617
In fact, I say I would never. Let me not misquote myself. My kid would have to earn that.
00:43:06.837 --> 00:43:12.077
All right. I'd have to call Santa Claus and say, Santa, you're not bringing a brand new $450 bat.
00:43:12.857 --> 00:43:18.897
My boy don't work enough with the bat he got. But I'd also have instilled that in him.
00:43:19.377 --> 00:43:22.717
I have had parents, the last three parents that have asked me what kind of bat
00:43:22.717 --> 00:43:26.837
should they get their son for this year. I've told them the same thing.
00:43:27.337 --> 00:43:31.417
The Pro Velocity bat. Because the Pro Velocity bat is a bat speed training tool.
00:43:31.577 --> 00:43:32.277
It's a developmental bat.
00:43:32.797 --> 00:43:36.597
I say, you get them that, don't worry about the other bat. They use whatever
00:43:36.597 --> 00:43:39.297
bat they want. You can use one in a dugout. Right.
00:43:42.197 --> 00:43:45.117
What that does, it increases the bat speed. And promise them,
00:43:45.277 --> 00:43:50.237
if you get him that, I'll send you the program for him to do.
00:43:52.137 --> 00:43:56.617
And it'll put him on another level with his backbeat. Now, we're incorporating
00:43:56.617 --> 00:43:58.717
that program in our stuff as well.
00:43:59.417 --> 00:44:05.577
But if you have, the bad kid has at that age, of course, if you get spawned, spawned, they earn it.
00:44:05.657 --> 00:44:08.317
Whatever I get to make it, I don't know. Whatever other people do.
00:44:08.857 --> 00:44:13.337
That's all fine and nanny. But if there's a chance for me to get Aubrey,
00:44:13.577 --> 00:44:22.057
a tool for her to use in-game that may be the best bat or the coolest bat at
00:44:22.057 --> 00:44:29.177
the time versus a tool that can help her develop on her own with her team during
00:44:29.177 --> 00:44:31.257
practice. I want that tool.
00:44:31.997 --> 00:44:36.697
That's first. Once you get that developmental tool, because look, bats are expensive.
00:44:37.697 --> 00:44:40.677
Bats are for $400 or $500. that training
00:44:40.677 --> 00:44:43.557
bat is 450 to 550 older guys
00:44:43.557 --> 00:44:51.557
is 550 that battle be used way more than what a game battle be used i'm i'm
00:44:51.557 --> 00:44:59.277
that's an investment yeah now you said you see it's all works towards that whatever
00:44:59.277 --> 00:45:01.817
you're gonna do do it the best you can,
00:45:03.330 --> 00:45:06.410
We're always going to do more at it. That's our responsibility to the team.
00:45:08.190 --> 00:45:12.650
But with kids, if it's not development first and working hard and doing things
00:45:12.650 --> 00:45:15.130
like that, it's just here's a good game bat.
00:45:15.750 --> 00:45:20.930
How's that teaching the same work ethic or morals that our grandparents had
00:45:20.930 --> 00:45:25.830
that helped them become who they were, the hardworking people that they were?
00:45:26.310 --> 00:45:31.810
Because you have to educate the kids as you go on and explain to them that.
00:45:32.010 --> 00:45:36.050
They need to hear that. They need to hear the reason behind the development
00:45:36.050 --> 00:45:38.330
bat versus the shiny new bat.
00:45:38.490 --> 00:45:41.530
But you also have to do the same thing with the parents because maybe they just,
00:45:41.550 --> 00:45:42.670
they don't see it like that.
00:45:42.750 --> 00:45:46.170
They never heard it like that. Well, and what's cool is like when the parents
00:45:46.170 --> 00:45:49.270
ask me, I'm glad you're seeking out the set advice because now I have opportunity
00:45:49.270 --> 00:45:53.570
to tell you to get them the developmental bat and not just go get them a $450 bat.
00:45:53.830 --> 00:45:56.770
Nothing against you getting your kid a $450 bat. Let me just say that.
00:45:56.770 --> 00:46:01.130
But if he has a $450 bat and he doesn't have the $450 training bat that can
00:46:01.130 --> 00:46:05.210
help with his bat speed and bat path and all the stuff that can help him be better and develop,
00:46:05.870 --> 00:46:12.750
then there's a missing link there because you can explain kids the development
00:46:12.750 --> 00:46:14.670
and you're going to do it.
00:46:15.070 --> 00:46:18.610
They don't understand that because they can't really see what's in the future.
00:46:22.090 --> 00:46:25.050
They process things different. whereas you
00:46:25.050 --> 00:46:28.030
know we we can set more long-term goals we
00:46:28.030 --> 00:46:30.990
can kind of see the future even though like right now i
00:46:30.990 --> 00:46:33.770
see the future on what we're doing here and and with the chemical comp would
00:46:33.770 --> 00:46:37.650
express kim even though i'm hurrying up the weight a lot i
00:46:37.650 --> 00:46:40.930
could see that whenever we first started it i see
00:46:40.930 --> 00:46:43.770
it even more now because i'm in the mix of it
00:46:43.770 --> 00:46:46.610
but if you just explain that to a kid without putting
00:46:46.610 --> 00:46:49.250
them in a situation where they feel it
00:46:49.250 --> 00:46:53.390
and like they realize it it don't work it don't
00:46:53.390 --> 00:46:59.010
because they don't prop you do that you got to show them you got to show and
00:46:59.010 --> 00:47:03.390
put them in situations that promote those things and then you'll i don't know
00:47:03.390 --> 00:47:07.170
how to explain it the best way but it's kind of like you're getting what you
00:47:07.170 --> 00:47:09.870
want out of it without having to preach it through them,
00:47:11.510 --> 00:47:16.010
and then you you'll just dabble on the topic and get some pinpoints out there
00:47:16.010 --> 00:47:20.230
but it starts clicking when they've been in that situation Thank you.
00:47:21.811 --> 00:47:24.871
That's been, I mean, that kind of style has been successful.
00:47:24.931 --> 00:47:28.151
I know I'm ranting about it, but I really am passionate about the development
00:47:28.151 --> 00:47:30.071
stuff. I don't care what it is and what you're doing.
00:47:31.031 --> 00:47:33.271
Everybody's like, well, your daughter don't play softball? I'm like, no.
00:47:34.971 --> 00:47:40.971
We play soccer because I knew soccer is the best youth sport out there just
00:47:40.971 --> 00:47:42.351
because it gets your feet underneath you.
00:47:43.451 --> 00:47:48.231
And it's pretty damn fun whenever they're 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 because they don't have a goalie.
00:47:50.071 --> 00:47:53.091
That's what we're in right now. no goalie no goalie no
00:47:53.091 --> 00:47:55.851
oh dude it's so fun yeah it's cool
00:47:55.851 --> 00:47:58.571
it's so i said this last game so we
00:47:58.571 --> 00:48:01.251
have austin has on i guess you know
00:48:01.251 --> 00:48:06.871
au team then auburn's on a 10u team auburn's the first year with the goalies
00:48:06.871 --> 00:48:12.551
austin has no goalie but just the difference in that in that age gap right there
00:48:12.551 --> 00:48:18.351
you know really the average age gap i'd say would be one year and the difference
00:48:18.351 --> 00:48:21.131
between the like Like, just their field play.
00:48:21.551 --> 00:48:25.351
You know, Austin still, they're all within arm's reach.
00:48:25.931 --> 00:48:29.851
And just one year later, they're starting to understand, like,
00:48:30.011 --> 00:48:34.131
the field's kind of covered. It's a little harder to get the ball, you know, 10 yards.
00:48:35.451 --> 00:48:38.511
It's just so cool to see that. When Aubrey played for the St.
00:48:38.611 --> 00:48:42.951
Charles Parish, Rex Soccer League, whatever, we were living in a trailer at the time.
00:48:43.131 --> 00:48:45.251
We were renting the land that we were living on, but we owned a trailer.
00:48:45.811 --> 00:48:50.431
And that had a little piece of property next to us that the guy owned.
00:48:51.111 --> 00:48:54.351
It's basically a foot house, but I put a trailer there, so we had a lot of land
00:48:54.351 --> 00:48:56.391
or a decent amount, whatever, a third of an acre.
00:48:56.851 --> 00:49:00.931
I built a miniature, like the soccer field, that was the size of their soccer field.
00:49:01.511 --> 00:49:05.391
I bought soccer nets, I bought soccer balls, I bought training stuff.
00:49:06.985 --> 00:49:09.845
When our friends would come over, I'd like entice them to 1v1-ing.
00:49:11.105 --> 00:49:15.065
Me and Aubrey would go to the, I'd bring it to the park.
00:49:17.565 --> 00:49:20.685
And we'd enter the park on the opposite side of where the playground is,
00:49:20.785 --> 00:49:24.285
where we could see the playground over there. But like, we're going to work at soccer.
00:49:24.905 --> 00:49:27.845
We're going to get better at what we're involved in right now for an hour.
00:49:28.025 --> 00:49:31.325
And then you go, hey, you're about to tear that playground up after this.
00:49:31.465 --> 00:49:36.165
And I would do like what the soccer coach drills were, whatever he was introducing.
00:49:36.745 --> 00:49:43.025
Shout out to coach brad landash i would go do with her as much as i could uh
00:49:43.025 --> 00:49:46.825
and that taught her to to do more
00:49:46.825 --> 00:49:50.585
a lot of people when i tell them oh how much do you work with your kid.
00:49:51.725 --> 00:49:55.105
I'm not going to work with them if i got to drag them out there and make them do it,
00:49:55.725 --> 00:50:01.245
i get that i respect that too but there's a requirement in my household where
00:50:01.245 --> 00:50:04.045
if you're going to do something you got to do more because you owe it to the
00:50:04.045 --> 00:50:10.185
team and and and if it's an individual sport feels tennis you owe it to the
00:50:10.185 --> 00:50:12.445
team is your family and your last name you owe it
00:50:12.845 --> 00:50:16.465
to them they're going to sacrifice time money and effort like you
00:50:16.465 --> 00:50:19.265
have to do more well uh i used
00:50:19.265 --> 00:50:22.965
to get her out there and we used to do that stuff but i
00:50:22.965 --> 00:50:26.265
learned they asked me to help with the soccer coaching so i
00:50:26.265 --> 00:50:29.625
helped you know uh i i know
00:50:29.625 --> 00:50:32.745
now that i develop
00:50:32.745 --> 00:50:35.525
all the training and drill work we were doing was all
00:50:35.525 --> 00:50:39.205
great and that was towards the development and like you know but i
00:50:39.205 --> 00:50:43.245
taught her how to play soccer to have success on
00:50:43.245 --> 00:50:48.705
the field versus the development for the long run at a certain point it got
00:50:48.705 --> 00:50:56.225
to that because she could toe poke it further than he could ever uh I'm trying
00:50:56.225 --> 00:51:01.825
to piece this together to where everybody understands it basically what I did is I taught her.
00:51:02.745 --> 00:51:05.765
With our little soccer field at the house whenever we would play in the backyard
00:51:05.765 --> 00:51:11.465
and whatnot that she needed to how to steal the ball how to set it out front
00:51:11.465 --> 00:51:13.845
and the next kick it needed to go in the goal.
00:51:14.685 --> 00:51:18.605
So she could like score from like midfield, but she could only kick it that
00:51:18.605 --> 00:51:22.045
far. She toe poked it. Right. Well, that took her away from.
00:51:24.540 --> 00:51:31.640
Actually trans whatever age group it was the three years she played uh it took
00:51:31.640 --> 00:51:36.100
away like the actual how you're supposed to use your feet in soccer right which which i know now,
00:51:36.820 --> 00:51:40.300
i didn't know then and we could have changed it and got better at whatever but,
00:51:40.900 --> 00:51:47.340
like i i evaluated myself on that like okay i see where i me wanting her to to.
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:51.360
Be to learn how to steal the ball which is good
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:54.220
to set it out front that's not how real soccer's played
00:51:54.220 --> 00:51:56.940
i didn't set her up to play soccer but i knew shit i didn't
00:51:56.940 --> 00:51:59.820
know shit about soccer either shane yeah until i got the central effusion
00:51:59.820 --> 00:52:03.440
my good buddies were the soccer coaches girls and boys uh
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:06.640
the the process
00:52:06.640 --> 00:52:09.480
that goes through my mind is like i'm
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:13.280
gonna remember what i did and how i did it and if it
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:16.240
worked what type of person it worked if it didn't work
00:52:16.240 --> 00:52:20.140
what maybe if i'd have done it this way it could have worked for whatever reason
00:52:20.140 --> 00:52:25.240
because it's all development whether it's soccer whatever and i don't i'm not
00:52:25.240 --> 00:52:31.200
i did what i thought was right at that time but i realized now like those when
00:52:31.200 --> 00:52:35.800
she got good at doing it that way like i also took away from her actually.
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:39.100
Having the right foot skills fundamental yeah so if
00:52:39.100 --> 00:52:42.620
you if she would have continued with soccer and not went to dance uh
00:52:42.620 --> 00:52:45.340
and done that eight days a week i would
00:52:45.340 --> 00:52:48.200
have had to retrain those
00:52:48.200 --> 00:52:51.180
things right yeah and i'm not a fan of wasting time
00:52:51.180 --> 00:52:53.960
because i learned doing punishment uh in sixth
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:57.120
grade for miss luke that time loss cannot be regained regained
00:52:57.120 --> 00:53:00.260
and i had to write that essay that paragraph or
00:53:00.260 --> 00:53:08.680
whatever 100 times but as far as like like the pattern it doesn't stop just
00:53:08.680 --> 00:53:12.400
with baseball or start just a baseball for me i don't know if if it's like that
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:16.520
with you and everything but through my kids with allowing them to play whatever
00:53:16.520 --> 00:53:17.920
you want to do or this and that.
00:53:19.940 --> 00:53:22.400
It's always going to be a requirement that you have to do more.
00:53:23.140 --> 00:53:25.680
Because look, whenever you forget out of college or whenever you get out of
00:53:25.680 --> 00:53:27.620
high school and you go into the workforce, you're,
00:53:28.438 --> 00:53:31.878
you don't know what you can be you may have a specific thing you're going to
00:53:31.878 --> 00:53:36.378
school for right like you're going to school to be in business or be an accountant
00:53:36.378 --> 00:53:40.918
whatever okay so you can be a the bottom of the barrel account you can be the
00:53:40.918 --> 00:53:43.638
top of the barrel and want to be the cpa yada yada,
00:53:44.438 --> 00:53:48.778
why not while they're young and energetic and my grandpa used to say full of
00:53:48.778 --> 00:53:53.258
piss and vinegar have those guys that are coming through our program and of
00:53:53.258 --> 00:53:54.318
course my kids because they're mine.
00:53:55.358 --> 00:54:01.578
On that mission doing extra extra extra before life gets busy like it is whenever you have kids,
00:54:02.458 --> 00:54:05.298
because if they can set themselves up they come
00:54:05.298 --> 00:54:08.018
out of college or come out of high school full of piss and vinegar i don't care if
00:54:08.018 --> 00:54:10.778
you go to the machine shop and you start out as a helper out
00:54:10.778 --> 00:54:13.358
of high school i don't care if you get a trade i don't care
00:54:13.358 --> 00:54:16.278
if you get a degree i don't care if you get two degrees or massive
00:54:16.278 --> 00:54:20.098
like if they can come out firing and everything
00:54:20.098 --> 00:54:23.618
you do we're going to do extra then that allows them it
00:54:23.618 --> 00:54:29.918
opens doors for them and allows them to be on track to get to the top of the
00:54:29.918 --> 00:54:36.338
food chain whatever that is uh am i making sense on that yeah 100 i don't want
00:54:36.338 --> 00:54:42.098
our pro i refuse to hold a child back from being the best that he can be at whatever,
00:54:42.778 --> 00:54:46.618
he's gonna be in on my kids there's
00:54:46.618 --> 00:54:49.338
some we've had some of the hardest workers come out of high
00:54:49.338 --> 00:54:52.358
school and they want to they want to trade and they
00:54:52.358 --> 00:54:55.678
want to be the best of that trade military be the
00:54:55.678 --> 00:54:58.718
best at it uh whatever it
00:54:58.718 --> 00:55:04.498
is uh as long as it's productive so i'll be the best that if you need bad or
00:55:04.498 --> 00:55:10.778
something like that no but i just think that young boys young men that are in
00:55:10.778 --> 00:55:14.998
our program that's part of the development thing because that carries over into
00:55:14.998 --> 00:55:18.318
everything and you're not shutting doors on yourself by.
00:55:19.238 --> 00:55:23.458
Coming out of college and being a guy that's I'm not working on the weekends
00:55:23.458 --> 00:55:27.558
I got a college degree I'm not oh hey boss man.
00:55:29.428 --> 00:55:32.288
When I finished baseball, when I went to Arkansas that one year,
00:55:32.448 --> 00:55:33.728
I hurt my shoulder. I had to have surgery.
00:55:33.848 --> 00:55:37.208
I didn't want to go have surgery and wait a year and then play another year.
00:55:37.288 --> 00:55:38.548
I had been my sixth year in college.
00:55:39.288 --> 00:55:42.468
So I didn't get a degree. I didn't have my degree at the time.
00:55:43.148 --> 00:55:45.368
I still didn't finish my four-year degree, by the way, if I can make that known.
00:55:46.628 --> 00:55:49.828
I came home, and I went work at the machine shop.
00:55:50.808 --> 00:55:55.808
I was a helper for three weeks. Then I was put on a CNC lathe.
00:55:56.728 --> 00:56:00.508
And the next week i was on nights because there was a three dollar shift premium
00:56:00.508 --> 00:56:05.628
and i was like hey that's me i got this look i got this i just learned it as
00:56:05.628 --> 00:56:06.908
fast i could work as hard as i could.
00:56:07.808 --> 00:56:11.428
It there was no such thing as like this job
00:56:11.428 --> 00:56:14.668
is a 12 hour shift job for me when i
00:56:14.668 --> 00:56:17.348
was a helper and they had parts before i left i had to get those parts off the
00:56:17.348 --> 00:56:21.968
table i had to get it done extra weekends
00:56:21.968 --> 00:56:25.648
whatever hey look boom
00:56:25.648 --> 00:56:28.548
i'm here they put it normally don't
00:56:28.548 --> 00:56:32.128
happen that fast and every situation is different but i
00:56:32.128 --> 00:56:35.748
had i didn't really have no connections actually a
00:56:35.748 --> 00:56:38.488
little joe called brock aber is that shout out
00:56:38.488 --> 00:56:41.368
to brock aber at the phone sluggle and sluggle was
00:56:41.368 --> 00:56:44.348
the controller over there at the time and uh he got
00:56:44.348 --> 00:56:47.228
me an interview for to be an helper did that
00:56:47.228 --> 00:56:51.568
i was machinist for like that fall i
00:56:51.568 --> 00:56:55.108
was like i won't i was miserable outside of work so
00:56:55.108 --> 00:56:57.988
i said the work-life balance thing i was
00:56:57.988 --> 00:57:02.128
miserable outside of work because i was just obsessed with
00:57:02.128 --> 00:57:04.828
with work like i wasn't obsessed with being a
00:57:04.828 --> 00:57:08.008
helper i was just obsessed with.
00:57:08.008 --> 00:57:10.808
Like working my way up because i
00:57:10.808 --> 00:57:13.968
knew top dollars and machinists was like 38 or 40 bucks an
00:57:13.968 --> 00:57:17.368
hour at a time so i thought like that's that's
00:57:17.368 --> 00:57:20.248
what i'm gonna go do you know i hadn't made
00:57:20.248 --> 00:57:25.308
even i just made solid grades to pass in college up to that point but then i
00:57:25.308 --> 00:57:32.008
got a taste of that and i realized like i that wouldn't lead me to a happy life
00:57:32.008 --> 00:57:40.088
uh because i couldn't i could i couldn't balance it i guess i don't know how old are you Man, I was.
00:57:40.568 --> 00:57:44.188
I remember I graduated young, so I was four years old, I was 22,
00:57:45.288 --> 00:57:47.088
18, 18.
00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:55.000
21, 22, 22, 23. That fall I did that. I enrolled at Nichols.
00:57:55.260 --> 00:57:58.560
I got in a petroleum program at Nichols that spring.
00:58:00.560 --> 00:58:03.660
I passed intersession math class.
00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:08.020
Actually, I took the intersession math class right after that Christmas or during
00:58:08.020 --> 00:58:14.580
that Christmas break, which is 13 and a half weeks crammed into nine days.
00:58:15.500 --> 00:58:22.500
And I wasn't I wasn't good in math at a time I had to pass that I had a friend
00:58:22.500 --> 00:58:25.000
of mine that tutored me and helped me a ton I owe it to her.
00:58:26.840 --> 00:58:31.000
But I passed that and then from that point on I made straight A's in college,
00:58:32.460 --> 00:58:37.840
I wish I had this development mindset so what was it?
00:58:39.120 --> 00:58:42.320
Who gave it to you? or what clicked?
00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:48.560
It must have clicked Must have clicked at Delgado Okay I always had the ability
00:58:48.560 --> 00:58:52.400
to work hard And I was always really competitive I can be motivated,
00:58:52.940 --> 00:58:57.040
I never needed anything to motivate me I guess you could say I just stayed like
00:58:57.040 --> 00:59:00.700
go For whatever reason Whether that was a deficiency or a positive,
00:59:01.220 --> 00:59:06.520
I'm cool with it Ashton Kutcher said When he got an award It was on Nickelodeon
00:59:06.520 --> 00:59:10.560
or something I watched it and found out seeing a video Ashton Kutcher Remember him?
00:59:10.900 --> 00:59:12.860
Mm-hmm What do you use? You used to do punk, huh?
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:20.080
Mm-hmm Ashton Kutcher said, I want all of you, he pointed to all of you like
00:59:20.080 --> 00:59:22.580
that. No, it's a Nickelodeon award, so they got kids.
00:59:24.080 --> 00:59:27.580
To look around you. And when y'all leave here, look around you.
00:59:27.720 --> 00:59:33.540
And everything around you that was built and established or is getting established
00:59:33.540 --> 00:59:37.600
was built by people who are no smarter than you.
00:59:39.140 --> 00:59:41.360
So don't limit yourself. Yeah.
00:59:42.707 --> 00:59:45.567
Limit yourself by your own accord or something like that
00:59:45.567 --> 00:59:51.607
basically like don't set your own limitations so from that point on i was like
00:59:51.607 --> 00:59:57.107
man i can i can do this assist look i just knew to work i didn't know what to
00:59:57.107 --> 01:00:03.007
work at i didn't know if all for the industry come i don't have my degree,
01:00:03.787 --> 01:00:07.487
i'm just going to work i'm going to get to the top i'm going to work to the
01:00:07.487 --> 01:00:12.787
top some way sooner or later than I uh but that kind of made me realize like
01:00:12.787 --> 01:00:14.227
I could do more and be more,
01:00:15.727 --> 01:00:23.647
uh and I guess the experience at the machine shop and how the outside of that was kind of miserable.
01:00:26.127 --> 01:00:30.067
Uh I wouldn't have had no life I really would I wouldn't allow myself to have
01:00:30.067 --> 01:00:34.987
a life outside of work because I always would have took the work you would have chased yeah yeah,
01:00:35.867 --> 01:00:41.507
so I would have never been able to to have a to be a father to a kid because
01:00:41.507 --> 01:00:47.107
I would have just been miserable by myself but I would have gotten to be a top-paid machinist.
01:00:48.467 --> 01:00:53.367
But that was like the I don't know but it's like I was like encapsulated in yeah and just work so,
01:00:53.827 --> 01:00:56.547
my mind had went to I'm not having
01:00:56.547 --> 01:00:59.407
surgery rehab for resurgery and
01:00:59.407 --> 01:01:03.287
rehab for a year in Arkansas then my
01:01:03.287 --> 01:01:06.067
my sixth year in college then I'll play that year then
01:01:06.067 --> 01:01:08.967
I'll be done with baseball I was like I'm going home
01:01:08.967 --> 01:01:13.067
and go to work and then hearing getting
01:01:13.067 --> 01:01:15.927
that experience and realizing like there is no life
01:01:15.927 --> 01:01:19.267
outside of this for years to get
01:01:19.267 --> 01:01:22.087
to to top pay because I'm
01:01:22.087 --> 01:01:25.047
will work relentlessly yeah all the extra whatever
01:01:25.047 --> 01:01:28.867
working nights after
01:01:28.867 --> 01:01:32.827
what my one week on the machine or whatever in
01:01:32.827 --> 01:01:36.227
a day or a couple some change after working nights excuse
01:01:36.227 --> 01:01:42.767
me for the three dollar uh shift premium everybody else is awake during the
01:01:42.767 --> 01:01:49.947
day you're sleeping you can't even be in a household because no matter how soundproof
01:01:49.947 --> 01:01:52.867
your house is when people are awake you're moving around like something,
01:01:53.387 --> 01:01:55.967
they do that'll wake you up and,
01:01:56.967 --> 01:02:01.207
man it's just like all that stuff that experience combined and I heard him say that and I was like.
01:02:02.710 --> 01:02:06.590
Guy from punk just said that like that passion couldn't like no
01:02:06.590 --> 01:02:11.410
and i think i guess it resonated because look the punk show he was a clown whatever
01:02:11.410 --> 01:02:18.010
i i used to like the clown a guy like him saying that and like being like true
01:02:18.010 --> 01:02:23.910
to his core like as as honest and as helpful as he can get it,
01:02:24.490 --> 01:02:27.730
it hit home and i i kept that that same
01:02:27.730 --> 01:02:30.970
thing even now whenever oh i
01:02:30.970 --> 01:02:36.370
sat down with oh my buddy to to start with this the chemical would express chem
01:02:36.370 --> 01:02:41.310
like i that same thing went through my mind like because you don't know what
01:02:41.310 --> 01:02:45.830
you're doing with chemicals i'm not a chemist no i'm not a chemist i'm not a
01:02:45.830 --> 01:02:50.130
chemist but i'll tell you what i've learned a a bunch.
01:02:51.810 --> 01:02:55.810
Oh and look let me explain about like I don't have to be a chemist to do what
01:02:55.810 --> 01:03:00.310
I what I'm doing I have to know about the chemicals and applications and this
01:03:00.310 --> 01:03:04.890
and that but I've learned so much in the,
01:03:06.170 --> 01:03:15.090
let's say I'll get a pieces of information and turn that into to more and and
01:03:15.090 --> 01:03:21.470
then then I get some more pieces because it's like we're still piecing it together like i got a list of uh,
01:03:22.590 --> 01:03:27.270
let's just say it like this i got a list of uh from one of the top guys i got a list,
01:03:28.510 --> 01:03:32.850
of actual list of the chemicals that we have because we got like a blue ice
01:03:32.850 --> 01:03:39.150
is a soap chemical grade soap that uh rig wash we got a clean a which is a heavy duty degreaser,
01:03:40.550 --> 01:03:45.070
uh we got another product i'll i'll wait to say its name later but it's a it's
01:03:45.070 --> 01:03:50.130
like a home run bro We'll be the only one from Texas,
01:03:50.990 --> 01:03:51.870
Louisiana,
01:03:53.210 --> 01:03:54.810
Mississippi, and Alabama that'll have it.
01:03:54.930 --> 01:04:00.630
And it's a game changer for all for the industry and for turnaround time whenever
01:04:00.630 --> 01:04:02.190
you got to clean things out on these boats.
01:04:02.850 --> 01:04:06.190
So that's a huge one. And we'll be the only one that wants to have that. But...
01:04:07.707 --> 01:04:13.567
Got a i know the names of those three but i got a list of what all we have the rights to,
01:04:14.387 --> 01:04:20.827
all right the best analogy i can provide is i got a list that let's say it says window cleaner,
01:04:21.427 --> 01:04:24.467
well that's not a chemical name it's funny to window cleaner
01:04:24.467 --> 01:04:27.327
what they're like windex there's the rain next
01:04:27.327 --> 01:04:31.727
version of window there's multiple different right so that's
01:04:31.727 --> 01:04:35.347
i got that list dissected what each of
01:04:35.347 --> 01:04:38.467
those things were like there were some words that uh
01:04:38.467 --> 01:04:42.367
i hadn't heard before paraffin control i
01:04:42.367 --> 01:04:45.387
hadn't heard of it now i know everything that
01:04:45.387 --> 01:04:50.267
paraffin control does uh and the
01:04:50.267 --> 01:04:54.067
chemical names will be the our the
01:04:54.067 --> 01:04:57.147
rights that our chemical names will be coming across my desk soon
01:04:57.147 --> 01:04:59.967
but i didn't just sit back and
01:04:59.967 --> 01:05:03.207
wait for those names i went
01:05:03.207 --> 01:05:06.547
look at what the piece of information that i got and now
01:05:06.547 --> 01:05:14.627
it doesn't matter if it's named pluto's ear cleaner or whatever i know exactly
01:05:14.627 --> 01:05:24.047
what it's supposed to do now it's up to the the mic the me me mixing the raw
01:05:24.047 --> 01:05:26.287
materials and stuff, that's, I got that on lock.
01:05:26.367 --> 01:05:31.727
I'll be, we rolling with that soon here, but I also know that I have limitations.
01:05:32.027 --> 01:05:36.247
So I'm not a chemist, but when I need a chemist, I can find one.
01:05:37.427 --> 01:05:44.427
You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's, but if I would have been not about the
01:05:44.427 --> 01:05:46.607
work ethic, cause it wasn't the smarts that got me.
01:05:47.167 --> 01:05:51.847
If I wouldn't have been like a fearless, work hard, work hard.
01:05:54.104 --> 01:05:57.064
Like I'm going to get to the top and it might've been the best garbage truck
01:05:57.064 --> 01:05:58.984
or like the four men at the garbage company.
01:05:59.104 --> 01:06:02.844
I don't know if that, those things kind of wouldn't have happened how they happen.
01:06:03.444 --> 01:06:04.624
Then I might be different.
01:06:05.324 --> 01:06:09.384
It just kind of, for me, it kind of luckily got pieced together.
01:06:10.444 --> 01:06:12.584
Nah, my grandpa always dropped a lot of good knowledge on me,
01:06:12.604 --> 01:06:15.604
but it kind of luckily got pieced together and my aunt had a great work ethic.
01:06:16.504 --> 01:06:21.164
My dad always worked too. I think you did. I think you did something and it worked.
01:06:21.204 --> 01:06:25.324
So you did more of it. so and that works you did more of it and i remember those
01:06:25.324 --> 01:06:30.324
things and i remember it didn't work and i don't have it written down on paper
01:06:30.324 --> 01:06:34.264
but that little is what we're trying to get,
01:06:34.784 --> 01:06:40.924
that i guess that click or whatever instilled in our guys so when they walk out of here,
01:06:41.544 --> 01:06:46.004
say something happens and they can't ever play a sport again that adversity
01:06:46.004 --> 01:06:49.744
that we been facing and embracing and doing
01:06:49.744 --> 01:06:55.884
a bit like empowering ourselves through it that doesn't stall their life and
01:06:55.884 --> 01:07:01.524
put allow them to put limitations on themselves you know what i'm saying where
01:07:01.524 --> 01:07:07.804
i went through a period of limiting myself to just certain things like,
01:07:08.784 --> 01:07:10.984
i ain't gonna say it's because i didn't know i just.
01:07:12.550 --> 01:07:16.370
I know machinists get top pay of $34. I'm going to go work over with every machinist.
01:07:17.030 --> 01:07:20.990
I've been four years of college underneath my belt, and I went and made $10
01:07:20.990 --> 01:07:23.030
an hour starting out as a machinist.
01:07:24.670 --> 01:07:29.950
Not one second did I, like, oh, I can't. I'm better than that. All right.
01:07:30.770 --> 01:07:34.790
You said top pay for your best machinist over here is $38. Okay.
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That's what I need to get to.
01:07:37.230 --> 01:07:39.510
I just don't want our guys to just have that.
01:07:40.830 --> 01:07:43.570
We can help them with more. you know
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what i'm saying at a younger age because i might have freaking
01:07:46.350 --> 01:07:49.090
been able to i mean took some tough
01:07:49.090 --> 01:07:52.110
classes my last little bit of college and made
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a's maybe i could have done that since ninth
01:07:55.050 --> 01:07:58.370
grade you know what i'm saying maybe baseball
01:07:58.370 --> 01:08:05.950
and uh and tops right could have paid for my schooling i don't know so you get
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me excited bro i get obsessed as hell with this uh development stuff let's get
01:08:09.730 --> 01:08:13.790
you mad because to be honest i've never i've never put it down on paper or truly
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i mean look i'll talk about development and people know what i'm about but,
01:08:18.230 --> 01:08:21.350
like the there's no
01:08:21.350 --> 01:08:25.270
this this this and this because each
01:08:25.270 --> 01:08:28.070
kid is coached differently in their own kid there's certain ones
01:08:28.070 --> 01:08:30.750
that have certain traits and you're trying to polish up
01:08:30.750 --> 01:08:34.430
the other one there's no blueprint to this you
01:08:34.430 --> 01:08:39.250
know whereas a lot of other stuff there's a blueprint to i say a blueprint i
01:08:39.250 --> 01:08:43.990
know the business the express chem stuff that we're running over here that's
01:08:43.990 --> 01:08:51.330
like that's business business world that's easy like we gotta make money and lower,
01:08:51.930 --> 01:08:59.010
stuff that's costing us be more efficient i i get all that that's all easy stuff
01:08:59.010 --> 01:09:02.730
there's a blueprint to that i mean it's pretty simple when you talk about developing
01:09:02.730 --> 01:09:07.290
kids and and allowing on them to reach their full potential, whatever that may be.
01:09:09.121 --> 01:09:13.521
It's different. There's no blueprint to that.
01:09:14.241 --> 01:09:22.741
And I still, Shane, I still have, I still, our coaches here know we're about development.
01:09:23.921 --> 01:09:29.501
But it's what I was just saying and kind of going on about, I don't think that
01:09:29.501 --> 01:09:31.941
they see both sides of it like that.
01:09:32.461 --> 01:09:35.921
They were raised in different situations than I was. And maybe some of them do.
01:09:36.641 --> 01:09:39.621
But they know 100% that that development is first.
01:09:40.741 --> 01:09:44.801
That tool development and that work ethic and stuff. But I don't know,
01:09:44.881 --> 01:09:47.501
maybe one day I'll get, I'll start writing and I'll be able to write a book
01:09:47.501 --> 01:09:48.641
about it. Start writing.
01:09:51.361 --> 01:09:56.061
So I was going to ask you, I was going to ask you what you wanted.
01:09:56.821 --> 01:10:00.181
And I was going to ask you what your, what your mission is.
01:10:00.801 --> 01:10:04.821
And I think for which we're hit, I think we're hitting pretty hard on,
01:10:05.701 --> 01:10:09.201
i guess i know i know what you want you want to develop my
01:10:09.201 --> 01:10:12.401
mission has been accomplished this youth that we
01:10:12.401 --> 01:10:16.241
have you want to develop them using a sport
01:10:16.241 --> 01:10:19.601
of baseball to teach them more more than
01:10:19.601 --> 01:10:22.821
baseball that's sounds sounds pretty
01:10:22.821 --> 01:10:25.701
correct i believe our guys look i want
01:10:25.701 --> 01:10:28.381
them of course they're not going to be men when they walk into high school but
01:10:28.381 --> 01:10:31.581
i want them trending towards that because i was in taught in high school last
01:10:31.581 --> 01:10:36.581
year and i realized that no offense to these high schools nobody take this personal
01:10:36.581 --> 01:10:41.461
but they're not trying to graduate men they're just trying to get somebody a
01:10:41.461 --> 01:10:43.501
piece of paper to get them out in school yeah.
01:10:45.175 --> 01:10:49.875
We have to graduate men because you go into the real world, you graduate and
01:10:49.875 --> 01:10:52.435
like you go into the real world.
01:10:53.375 --> 01:10:56.395
Oh, I'm going to stay at home, live with mom. Well, what if,
01:10:56.455 --> 01:11:01.735
what if mom has an opportunity that, you know, you're going, you got it.
01:11:01.815 --> 01:11:05.295
You're going to have to find a place to stay because work is transferring me here.
01:11:05.955 --> 01:11:08.995
I love you. You either come to college over here. You, you want to stay cause
01:11:08.995 --> 01:11:10.875
your friends, you want to stay cause your friends are here.
01:11:11.315 --> 01:11:13.955
All right. Just what you got to do. You got to go to college and you got to work and
01:11:13.955 --> 01:11:17.935
you gotta pay for your place what if that what if unfortunate circumstances
01:11:17.935 --> 01:11:20.655
come up and there's nobody that's there
01:11:20.655 --> 01:11:24.215
to be able to be there for them you need
01:11:24.215 --> 01:11:27.595
to graduate men and i
01:11:27.595 --> 01:11:30.295
think you need to you need to be
01:11:30.295 --> 01:11:33.035
around men to to be able to do that right to be
01:11:33.035 --> 01:11:36.895
able to make that happen and so i don't
01:11:36.895 --> 01:11:39.815
know what's your you you've had a lot of how many kids
01:11:39.815 --> 01:11:43.075
you had come through here you think in the last last couple
01:11:43.075 --> 01:11:45.855
years do you keep track of that you get some
01:11:45.855 --> 01:11:51.455
repeat you get some return athletes right so for the most part we the core groups
01:11:51.455 --> 01:11:56.995
yeah yeah year after year the core groups are i was thinking got a lot of like
01:11:56.995 --> 01:12:00.495
the last few years i've been a lot of my time was at central and now so i've
01:12:00.495 --> 01:12:03.615
only got to see like the last two 13 to 14 year groups or whatever.
01:12:05.255 --> 01:12:13.515
12 man rosters that we want that to be the minimum alright you're going to get
01:12:13.515 --> 01:12:19.875
every age group is going to have either in between 11 and 13 guys on that team okay.
01:12:22.075 --> 01:12:28.695
There's 9U, 10U, 11U 12U, 13U 14U, there's 6 we have 6 age groups,
01:12:28.855 --> 01:12:33.775
1 team each age group so what is that? 72? Mm-hmm.
01:12:35.371 --> 01:12:39.511
72 kids and you
01:12:39.511 --> 01:12:42.391
basically depending on the way grade some
01:12:42.391 --> 01:12:45.451
of them in they'll all i ain't
01:12:45.451 --> 01:12:49.091
gonna say graduate but it's kind of like when 14 you
01:12:49.091 --> 01:12:51.971
if they're in eighth grade they'll graduate now
01:12:51.971 --> 01:12:54.731
some of them go to a school with eighth grade ball they still play with
01:12:54.731 --> 01:12:57.511
us when they get to ninth grade
01:12:57.511 --> 01:13:02.651
they can't cornelli just say play on another roster while they're on a high
01:13:02.651 --> 01:13:07.551
school rost gotcha didn't know that we're specific on development so we promote
01:13:07.551 --> 01:13:11.391
our guys to still because they the rules say that you can't practice with another
01:13:11.391 --> 01:13:15.091
team during that school like if if you're playing football you can play baseball
01:13:15.091 --> 01:13:16.051
on a team outside of school,
01:13:16.631 --> 01:13:19.811
if you're playing baseball you can play football on a team whatever now your
01:13:19.811 --> 01:13:22.471
coach couldn't have his feelings about it whatever but there's no lhsa rules
01:13:22.471 --> 01:13:29.871
that stop that what you can't do is be playing high school baseball and team
01:13:29.871 --> 01:13:35.871
practicing and playing outside of that.
01:13:36.251 --> 01:13:40.711
Now, I let my people know you can come here in your high school uniform,
01:13:40.791 --> 01:13:41.651
straight from high school baseball.
01:13:41.951 --> 01:13:48.111
I would highly recommend you not miss the development that we're doing because
01:13:48.111 --> 01:13:49.951
we're a developmental baseball academy.
01:13:50.451 --> 01:13:56.091
Your son When teams get like that I'm not having your son Come from High school
01:13:56.091 --> 01:13:59.031
To get extra work in And we're going over Bunk coverage.
01:14:00.471 --> 01:14:05.751
Like we We'll kind of do more Of what we do in the fall When the guys get to
01:14:05.751 --> 01:14:09.611
that 14 year age And they kind of Caught in between To promote them To keep
01:14:09.611 --> 01:14:12.231
out working And doing more And doing more And doing more,
01:14:13.251 --> 01:14:17.791
And maintaining like Arm care and stuff Making sure that They're not overusing
01:14:17.791 --> 01:14:23.991
it And I say overuse It'd be like if they pitched at school that day or whatever
01:14:23.991 --> 01:14:27.711
and then came here and we're doing a lot of throwing scenarios.
01:14:28.211 --> 01:14:30.711
We need to communicate that stuff and we're 100% willing to.
01:14:30.871 --> 01:14:38.031
But people shy away and then they stop their kids' development.
01:14:38.551 --> 01:14:42.531
Because the coach said you can't practice with, or the SEC rules say you can't practice.
01:14:42.711 --> 01:14:48.491
But we're development. So there's no one in this world that's going to tell
01:14:48.491 --> 01:14:56.231
me I cannot bring my kid to get a lesson, to get better and separate himself or herself,
01:14:56.531 --> 01:15:00.051
to go and practice. What's the fear?
01:15:02.651 --> 01:15:06.931
Why is there like competition between that? Why wouldn't they want that development
01:15:06.931 --> 01:15:09.671
and then to carry that over to the high school? Yeah.
01:15:11.390 --> 01:15:16.750
There's different driven factors behind it. Some of it is, I'm sure some of
01:15:16.750 --> 01:15:17.770
it came from a good place.
01:15:18.410 --> 01:15:29.650
Not wanting a guy to, I guess, not wanting maybe injuries to occur from not paying attention to.
01:15:30.730 --> 01:15:34.050
You do on another team practice and they think that coach is going to be,
01:15:34.270 --> 01:15:36.310
you're going to do what we're doing today. it don't matter what you did,
01:15:36.510 --> 01:15:40.770
you know, instead of a developmental place like us where, hey,
01:15:40.870 --> 01:15:44.650
look, we got four guys that play on the high school team.
01:15:46.730 --> 01:15:52.570
We got a practice plan. But look, some of it's the coaches are reading that
01:15:52.570 --> 01:15:54.190
ruling and just interpreting.
01:15:55.250 --> 01:16:03.750
If you're practicing with a team, they're practicing to go win a game.
01:16:04.630 --> 01:16:08.810
When in all actuality when our guys are like at 14 when they are tied up with
01:16:08.810 --> 01:16:13.590
that ninth grade or whatever we're not playing as much during that time so that
01:16:13.590 --> 01:16:15.950
way when those guys come back we get them in the summer or we'll play early
01:16:15.950 --> 01:16:20.490
it's about like develop like the development side,
01:16:21.710 --> 01:16:28.570
some coaches just interpret it and aren't willing to reach out or yeah lack
01:16:28.570 --> 01:16:33.110
of communication yeah and look parents parents have a,
01:16:33.950 --> 01:16:41.830
For the most part, they don't want to get in their kid's way or put them in
01:16:41.830 --> 01:16:43.990
a bad spot, and they overlook that.
01:16:44.990 --> 01:16:48.930
Well, I'm going to bring my kid and get developed. They're not going to go talk to the coach.
01:16:50.730 --> 01:16:55.670
Me, for us, with my kid, my daughter Aubrey, we can't get in the way.
01:16:55.730 --> 01:16:57.670
You know why? I make her go talk to the coach.
01:16:58.490 --> 01:17:01.430
If i was if she was a boy and at
01:17:01.430 --> 01:17:04.330
select and she's on
01:17:04.330 --> 01:17:07.130
that 14 u team or a 13 year old that's
01:17:07.130 --> 01:17:10.070
in high school already that extra work
01:17:10.070 --> 01:17:13.250
is like gonna help separate her and
01:17:13.250 --> 01:17:16.150
help her give that chase a drink like that's what you want that's what you want
01:17:16.150 --> 01:17:24.590
to promote uh and i do it smart right uh she well he'd be he because it's select
01:17:24.590 --> 01:17:30.270
my kid would have got to go talk to the the coach and I listen coach I know,
01:17:30.970 --> 01:17:37.990
rules say we can't practice or play with a team outside of our high school roster
01:17:37.990 --> 01:17:40.290
team or for others freshman G however.
01:17:41.770 --> 01:17:46.750
I play for South Louisiana Select and in all the practices whenever the high
01:17:46.750 --> 01:17:48.690
school season starts on our 14 team is,
01:17:49.450 --> 01:17:54.990
strictly development it's not practice like I'm going to a place for two hours
01:17:54.990 --> 01:17:57.010
that I'm going to work on skill sets and development,
01:17:58.390 --> 01:18:01.850
not make the team better at first and thirds at that point.
01:18:03.050 --> 01:18:10.510
Now the nines, tens, elevens, twelves, whatever, in the spring comes around we still maintain the,
01:18:11.372 --> 01:18:15.512
a percentage of the development stuff when this turn whenever the spring starts
01:18:15.512 --> 01:18:22.072
though we also maintain a percentage of like game strategies and stuff the fall
01:18:22.072 --> 01:18:23.452
is really no game strategy stuff,
01:18:24.172 --> 01:18:28.292
but i think some of it's communication some of it's just say they interpret
01:18:28.292 --> 01:18:33.692
it the way they want some of it's just i don't want to deal with yes or no and
01:18:33.692 --> 01:18:37.372
answering questions if these kids can go practice here and there i make it clear
01:18:37.372 --> 01:18:40.292
if you're going somewhere for development,
01:18:40.772 --> 01:18:44.672
like when i when i was at central don't miss that opportunity to get better.
01:18:45.752 --> 01:18:48.712
Remember at the end of the day there's how many guys on the high school team,
01:18:49.592 --> 01:18:52.472
and each person not all of them want to
01:18:52.472 --> 01:18:55.112
have the same goals in mind or raise the same or went through the
01:18:55.112 --> 01:18:58.132
same baseball program but i know it's important
01:18:58.132 --> 01:19:00.952
for me and our program and our kid and
01:19:00.952 --> 01:19:05.032
i know it's paying off and it's paid off for years i
01:19:05.032 --> 01:19:08.212
wanted to promote that at like at central to you play
01:19:08.212 --> 01:19:11.412
you 13 year old and you got here early keep going
01:19:11.412 --> 01:19:14.512
to those practices brother this is development and if
01:19:14.512 --> 01:19:17.832
we would if lhsa would have ever said anything because that
01:19:17.832 --> 01:19:20.692
only happens up until like ninth graders 10th grade they're too old
01:19:20.692 --> 01:19:25.192
to play travel but they'll seek development outside like come hit here lessons
01:19:25.192 --> 01:19:29.012
things like that they just won't do the development stuff with a team per se
01:19:29.012 --> 01:19:34.172
they'll do it in sort of like a like a program like a would do a throwing program
01:19:34.172 --> 01:19:38.912
with just the older guys makes sense i i can't see myself,
01:19:39.752 --> 01:19:44.012
uh i wasn't gonna allow the lhsa to to say
01:19:44.012 --> 01:19:49.552
they can't practice or play on a team outside of whatever and me not interpret
01:19:49.552 --> 01:19:54.892
that as that's okay i know what baseball practice is for the most part for 95
01:19:54.892 --> 01:20:01.472
percent of people i know what baseball development is i know if my kid had a b in math,
01:20:02.792 --> 01:20:09.852
and is struggling and she wants to make she wants that a we'll get math tutor yeah.
01:20:11.252 --> 01:20:15.272
I don't know i think and look there's a lot going on as a high school coach bro,
01:20:15.832 --> 01:20:21.292
there's a lot going on so i don't know but uh whoever does listen to this make sure,
01:20:21.792 --> 01:20:24.752
make sure you continue your kid's development
01:20:24.752 --> 01:20:27.572
outside of just what he does
01:20:27.572 --> 01:20:31.172
when he gets to high school because there are when they
01:20:31.172 --> 01:20:34.212
get those young teams ninth grade team if you have a freshman team
01:20:34.212 --> 01:20:37.292
maybe 16 18 guys on that freshman team
01:20:37.292 --> 01:20:39.952
some of them maybe the coach saw a little
01:20:39.952 --> 01:20:42.872
something some of the coach ain't sure about some of the coach is giving a chance
01:20:42.872 --> 01:20:47.612
to some coaches are keeping them the fundraise whatever they keep whatever it
01:20:47.612 --> 01:20:54.612
is they're on that team your reps your field time because varsity and JV come
01:20:54.612 --> 01:20:58.732
first and all that stuff is is,
01:21:00.327 --> 01:21:07.807
say they put on the back burner but why wouldn't you do more if you had an opportunity to.
01:21:09.407 --> 01:21:13.387
Your kid don't have a job to go to now you
01:21:13.387 --> 01:21:17.147
can always do it on your own and this and that but for the most part man kids it's
01:21:17.147 --> 01:21:21.127
hard to coach your own kid anything it's hard
01:21:21.127 --> 01:21:23.847
well i can't do it you can't do it bro
01:21:23.847 --> 01:21:26.607
i i so we you know
01:21:26.607 --> 01:21:29.307
we're in the jujitsu and both the girls are and
01:21:29.307 --> 01:21:32.527
they and they love it but I just
01:21:32.527 --> 01:21:35.567
I just watch them how they react differently you know I try
01:21:35.567 --> 01:21:38.247
to do the same thing that you know
01:21:38.247 --> 01:21:41.107
Scotty would do in class and and that sort of setup
01:21:41.107 --> 01:21:43.867
and they're just not in
01:21:43.867 --> 01:21:47.447
the right mindset it's like being being at home a
01:21:47.447 --> 01:21:50.467
lot of times they're just not they're just not ready they
01:21:50.467 --> 01:21:53.707
just they don't they don't have the same feeling and you
01:21:53.707 --> 01:21:56.447
know the second they get with the class sometimes they can they can
01:21:56.447 --> 01:21:59.567
flip a switch and they're into it and they're they're engaged they're
01:21:59.567 --> 01:22:02.267
answering questions and get home and they
01:22:02.267 --> 01:22:05.347
pretend they don't know nothing and that you know well for
01:22:05.347 --> 01:22:10.027
i know this play with that a lot for girls they're emotionally it's
01:22:10.027 --> 01:22:16.527
emotions that at that age gets them because like that's that's my dad like i
01:22:16.527 --> 01:22:18.747
remember whenever they asked me to coach soccer i didn't want to coach my daughter
01:22:18.747 --> 01:22:22.887
i just wanted to be the guy doing all the extra making sure i instilled that
01:22:22.887 --> 01:22:26.467
in her that we do actually no matter what but i wind up doing And I wind up
01:22:26.467 --> 01:22:28.947
like making the regular practices too. So.
01:22:29.947 --> 01:22:31.667
Aubrey wasn't allowed to call me dad.
01:22:33.487 --> 01:22:37.767
One of the first times something that like. She came to run and grab my leg
01:22:37.767 --> 01:22:40.727
to give me a hug. And look, I wanted to grab her and hug her.
01:22:41.427 --> 01:22:43.387
But like. I had.
01:22:44.870 --> 01:22:49.710
Maybe I did it. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it had adverse, I don't know.
01:22:49.830 --> 01:22:56.630
But I know that when that happened, I stopped her and said, remember, I'm coach.
01:22:57.890 --> 01:23:02.530
I'm coach right now. You're not calling me coach Lance, but call me coach.
01:23:03.210 --> 01:23:08.730
When we walking up to this practice, I'm daddy. When we walking away from this practice, I'm daddy.
01:23:09.390 --> 01:23:11.410
When we doing extra work, I'm daddy.
01:23:12.270 --> 01:23:17.830
We have set morals and values and rules that we have to abide by in our household,
01:23:19.470 --> 01:23:24.330
because we you will be a productive and i
01:23:24.330 --> 01:23:27.170
don't know if that like i guess she was smart enough
01:23:27.170 --> 01:23:29.850
to kind of comprehend that no maybe i explained it
01:23:29.850 --> 01:23:32.530
good to her but like from that point on she
01:23:32.530 --> 01:23:36.610
never came to me as dad on the soccer field it was
01:23:36.610 --> 01:23:39.430
always coach and i would give a little more independence i'm sure
01:23:39.430 --> 01:23:44.090
and that happened at a young age it wasn't like i that was four or five whatever
01:23:44.090 --> 01:23:51.070
that wasn't now that like she's 12 me trying to coach her because i don't know
01:23:51.070 --> 01:23:54.850
shit about dance i just know she got to work hard yeah but it's got to go again
01:23:54.850 --> 01:23:56.830
that's yeah you get better.
01:23:58.610 --> 01:24:01.990
But it helped and i think i could have maintained coaching
01:24:01.990 --> 01:24:04.630
her so on and so forth because when she
01:24:04.630 --> 01:24:08.390
got my wife signed up for softball against my will because
01:24:08.390 --> 01:24:14.610
i said i didn't play baseball until i was 10 i don't want her to because why
01:24:14.610 --> 01:24:26.310
i don't think that the development in youth baseball is as productive to athleticism and your development.
01:24:28.333 --> 01:24:31.653
T-ball which is bubblegum blowing
01:24:31.653 --> 01:24:36.013
circle spinning little kids that no
01:24:36.013 --> 01:24:39.953
i get it and then coach pitch is it's hella
01:24:39.953 --> 01:24:43.173
exciting and crazy and and then you
01:24:43.173 --> 01:24:47.693
get that from that you get into nine you kid pitch and kids can steal bases
01:24:47.693 --> 01:24:55.013
and they have to pitch themselves oh it just it'd be better to do a gymnastics
01:24:55.013 --> 01:25:02.573
or a soccer gymnastics yeah so like my thing is with soccer the beginning foundation is.
01:25:03.353 --> 01:25:06.573
The thing that holds you up you know
01:25:06.573 --> 01:25:11.913
what i'm saying shout out to all those people that skip leg day so that
01:25:11.913 --> 01:25:15.513
was and that was my mindset uh you know.
01:25:15.513 --> 01:25:19.653
Of course it's still the work ethic and things like that but soccer in
01:25:19.653 --> 01:25:23.093
my mind is the 100 the
01:25:23.093 --> 01:25:26.973
best the best one of the best i
01:25:26.973 --> 01:25:29.873
need to ask you about this because i i plan
01:25:29.873 --> 01:25:33.513
on putting blakely in soccer but i called
01:25:33.513 --> 01:25:37.973
the other day a cyclone jiu-jitsu and listen
01:25:37.973 --> 01:25:40.973
i'm hardcore ufc fan mma
01:25:40.973 --> 01:25:45.073
everything about it oh love
01:25:45.073 --> 01:25:48.593
it my youtube is feel it i don't
01:25:48.593 --> 01:25:51.773
want to start her in jiu-jitsu i want
01:25:51.773 --> 01:25:54.733
that to be a secondary thing i want that to be second i want
01:25:54.733 --> 01:25:58.433
my tie or american kickboxing what do
01:25:58.433 --> 01:26:01.153
you think about that thought ron so i don't
01:26:01.153 --> 01:26:03.953
so blakely my four-year-old yeah so i don't i don't have any
01:26:03.953 --> 01:26:07.813
i guess i'd be in the same boat as you as
01:26:07.813 --> 01:26:11.753
soccer or gymnastics
01:26:11.753 --> 01:26:14.933
or if she's you know
01:26:14.933 --> 01:26:18.313
for a kid that's got siblings and they
01:26:18.313 --> 01:26:22.233
got cousins and they're roughhousing and they're always playing whatever they're
01:26:22.233 --> 01:26:26.653
outside and they're climbing trees and stuff i would say you probably don't
01:26:26.653 --> 01:26:30.613
need any of that right you know it's not it's not as important than than this
01:26:30.613 --> 01:26:35.293
other kid that might have a maybe a different parent structure at home.
01:26:35.573 --> 01:26:38.853
Maybe a different lifestyle shown to them.
01:26:40.033 --> 01:26:46.833
I think it totally depends on the kid, but for a kid that's athletic and is
01:26:46.833 --> 01:26:49.973
getting the movement in and stuff like that.
01:26:52.540 --> 01:26:55.460
Really really really depends on where you are
01:26:55.460 --> 01:26:58.880
which one which one of those like they're
01:26:58.880 --> 01:27:02.180
say putting my tai and american kickboxing together and
01:27:02.180 --> 01:27:05.960
jiu-jitsu or wrestling together which one
01:27:05.960 --> 01:27:10.160
of those at that age is easier to structure and
01:27:10.160 --> 01:27:12.960
discipline that was my question to the guy i said
01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:16.180
look i don't mind so i and
01:27:16.180 --> 01:27:20.040
i don't have any experience like training under you
01:27:20.040 --> 01:27:22.820
know at a structured kickboxing or or uh
01:27:22.820 --> 01:27:27.580
muay thai gym i've done that i've done that stuff so but i don't understand
01:27:27.580 --> 01:27:32.540
the structure of it i do understand the structure of jiu-jitsu for adults and
01:27:32.540 --> 01:27:41.700
kids and i really think so much it depends on the it depends on the instructor and his,
01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:49.700
is this is this stuff because like you said if if he's if it's a business you're
01:27:49.700 --> 01:27:55.180
gonna get you're going to get what you expect to get if he's there for for other
01:27:55.180 --> 01:27:57.140
reasons and if he's there as,
01:27:57.900 --> 01:28:03.600
you know if he's a martial artist he's there for martial arts he's there for
01:28:03.600 --> 01:28:07.120
kids development you're going to get something totally different and it's going
01:28:07.120 --> 01:28:10.000
to look different to an outsider you know it's going to look different to a
01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:14.240
parent it really it really depends on on the individual.
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:18.740
Yeah i guess i i guess i couldn't say that enough
01:28:18.740 --> 01:28:21.820
it it would be really it would be knowing that
01:28:21.820 --> 01:28:27.460
guy you know be knowing who he is and making your assumptions on is this a business
01:28:27.460 --> 01:28:31.060
is this a i had a good conversation with him on the phone and i had specific
01:28:31.060 --> 01:28:35.000
questions i wanted to ask him because like i said i don't like wasting time
01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:40.580
i'll buy i'll buy i'll buy the pads that you punch and kick or whatever and.
01:28:42.458 --> 01:28:48.458
If I can't find good YouTube coaches, add it and make them, you know,
01:28:48.518 --> 01:28:52.298
I'm not the guy that just sees one video and goes and don't question it.
01:28:52.498 --> 01:28:59.478
Like, or see if there's a being that, like, I understand with the hitting part
01:28:59.478 --> 01:29:04.318
of it, of baseball, it's hitting is a reaction. All right.
01:29:05.138 --> 01:29:09.038
If you're going to do some mixed martial arts stuff, like a lot of that stuff
01:29:09.038 --> 01:29:12.578
is going to be reaction. Now, I'm not saying I'm grooming my youngest to be a UFC fighter.
01:29:12.698 --> 01:29:17.418
However, if I put her in that stuff, which I think would be good for her because
01:29:17.418 --> 01:29:21.858
she does like to put her hands on people, it can bring the structure and the
01:29:21.858 --> 01:29:23.698
discipline and put it all together for her.
01:29:24.098 --> 01:29:26.478
Whereas dance is doing that for the other one.
01:29:27.438 --> 01:29:30.418
Real quick, I said dance. I picked up my four-year-old from dance the other
01:29:30.418 --> 01:29:34.998
day. I made her go apologize to the dance teacher because it was open window day.
01:29:36.298 --> 01:29:39.418
And I didn't think she was listening good enough. I wasn't going to sit there
01:29:39.418 --> 01:29:41.438
and fuss at her or whatever.
01:29:42.038 --> 01:29:46.018
When she walked out the door all happy with her snack that they give everybody no matter what.
01:29:46.158 --> 01:29:50.518
Give me that snack. After I know that the first dance class they had,
01:29:50.618 --> 01:29:54.518
they were in a circle and she was doing some assaults across the circle.
01:29:55.618 --> 01:29:58.898
And the teacher's yelling at her. I yell at her, like telling her to stop.
01:29:59.118 --> 01:30:04.238
And then the second one, she was running around. I don't know.
01:30:07.241 --> 01:30:12.001
What she was doing and i don't care what it is i don't care like i'm not getting on her because,
01:30:12.741 --> 01:30:20.461
she wasn't good at dance making her go apologize to teacher because she was
01:30:20.461 --> 01:30:24.981
here for an hour and i saw the last five minutes which is gonna be the worst
01:30:24.981 --> 01:30:25.881
because of the attention span.
01:30:27.781 --> 01:30:33.901
And she wasn't like keep it like she's either ahead she was either ahead of
01:30:33.901 --> 01:30:41.081
it or behind it never in line like kind of here and there like right i need
01:30:41.081 --> 01:30:45.781
her to understand like to start processing that like that that becomes a form
01:30:45.781 --> 01:30:47.641
of disrespect when you get a little bit older,
01:30:48.681 --> 01:30:54.281
but the more back to the martial arts stuff i that i felt like that's a good
01:30:54.281 --> 01:30:59.381
avenue for her because we're gonna do soccer stuff but that can teach her that
01:30:59.381 --> 01:31:01.361
that discipline that structure now Now,
01:31:02.161 --> 01:31:05.601
a couple of my questions I had for him was, okay, when we sign up,
01:31:06.101 --> 01:31:14.321
is it team oriented because I don't want to sign her up for something that could
01:31:14.321 --> 01:31:16.921
hurt the team if she's not there? Gotcha.
01:31:18.121 --> 01:31:21.321
As far as, I don't know what they're going to do. I have no idea what they would
01:31:21.321 --> 01:31:25.921
start a ground foundation. He explained that they basically get the kids to
01:31:25.921 --> 01:31:30.401
do and learn the moves by getting them to do other stuff.
01:31:30.641 --> 01:31:32.461
They're thinking they're doing other stuff, but they're learning that.
01:31:32.681 --> 01:31:36.821
To create games. Yeah, yeah. So kind of like what we had talked about a little bit earlier.
01:31:37.361 --> 01:31:39.901
You're doing this and putting them
01:31:39.901 --> 01:31:44.501
in that situation to get this out of it instead of just verbalizing it.
01:31:44.921 --> 01:31:49.601
Well, I asked him that because I don't want to sign up.
01:31:49.601 --> 01:31:53.301
And if I miss, because he told me it's like whatever the price was,
01:31:53.581 --> 01:32:00.401
and they can come Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from like, it's like 530 or whatever.
01:32:00.481 --> 01:32:03.561
It's like an hour, 560 or 537, whatever it was.
01:32:05.121 --> 01:32:09.561
If it's like, if she misses this day, but she was supposed to,
01:32:10.261 --> 01:32:12.261
you know, I've only seen all the older jiu-jitsu stuff.
01:32:12.421 --> 01:32:15.941
I have no idea about it. found they like older guys if you got 10 guys that
01:32:15.941 --> 01:32:20.501
come to a class and you wind up with a guy not able that does that's a no-show
01:32:20.501 --> 01:32:25.441
one guy doesn't have a guy to roll with right right okay so that's my thought
01:32:25.441 --> 01:32:28.941
gotcha and he was he explained he's like no it's not like that,
01:32:30.181 --> 01:32:33.641
and then my well i got through everything i needed to to get through with him
01:32:33.641 --> 01:32:38.641
he offered me to go in and watch the class and whatnot and i do plan on and
01:32:38.641 --> 01:32:44.281
i plan on bringing her and we'll sit through a whole hour of it and then go from there.
01:32:44.461 --> 01:32:52.721
But look, am I signing her up to get like, is this like kiddie stuff or do y'all
01:32:52.721 --> 01:32:56.801
actually have structure and discipline throughout this? We do.
01:32:59.921 --> 01:33:03.521
It's not as advanced. No, no, no. Everybody's got to have a start.
01:33:03.641 --> 01:33:05.381
But what I don't want is...
01:33:07.530 --> 01:33:12.690
I want something that's going to martial arts is an arts and big part of that
01:33:12.690 --> 01:33:18.930
arts that martial arts part is respect and work ethic and things like that. And that's what I think.
01:33:19.070 --> 01:33:21.550
I'm not a martial artist. Yeah. I love it.
01:33:22.170 --> 01:33:26.070
Yeah. Will she get those things out of it?
01:33:26.350 --> 01:33:31.070
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so in every struck, every instructor is different.
01:33:31.070 --> 01:33:35.410
You're going to have you're going to have tournament schools,
01:33:35.890 --> 01:33:40.170
you know, tournament academies that everything's based on what we're preparing
01:33:40.170 --> 01:33:41.750
for you to go do a tournament.
01:33:41.750 --> 01:33:47.530
So we pay attention to points and we and we show you this in a way that is going
01:33:47.530 --> 01:33:49.070
to be beneficial in a tournament.
01:33:49.470 --> 01:33:52.930
Other schools might not care at all about that because they might understand,
01:33:53.170 --> 01:33:58.550
well, that's that works. But in with those constraints, with time limits and
01:33:58.550 --> 01:34:02.230
and these rules that that's when that is best.
01:34:02.430 --> 01:34:07.570
But for just for a five year old, that might not be the best, you know.
01:34:07.750 --> 01:34:13.910
So and then some will have those things you're looking for actually built into
01:34:13.910 --> 01:34:19.990
the curriculum where it's written somewhere and they're going to be tested on
01:34:19.990 --> 01:34:23.250
answering questions based around this this type of stuff.
01:34:23.250 --> 01:34:28.730
And other guys are just going to they'll sprinkle it in when it's when it's the time fits you know.
01:34:29.350 --> 01:34:32.050
So yeah i'd say the more the more
01:34:32.050 --> 01:34:35.030
information that guy has for you that you know whether it's
01:34:35.030 --> 01:34:41.450
on the website or you know we have at our school he has basically a like a member's
01:34:41.450 --> 01:34:48.290
login so you go log in and there's every you know every level that your kid
01:34:48.290 --> 01:34:52.850
can be there's there's you know a video of him and his son.
01:34:53.946 --> 01:34:56.826
Over what's important for that person to learn
01:34:56.826 --> 01:34:59.946
next and it's it's basically presented in
01:34:59.946 --> 01:35:03.046
a way for you to go home and do it with your kid here if you
01:35:03.046 --> 01:35:05.806
want to work on it at home here's what you do you you
01:35:05.806 --> 01:35:08.766
and it's it's everything it's it's the
01:35:08.766 --> 01:35:12.046
grappling it's the wrestling it's takedown judo
01:35:12.046 --> 01:35:15.066
style takedown it's striking kicking it's it's everything
01:35:15.066 --> 01:35:18.646
it's a jujitsu school but
01:35:18.646 --> 01:35:21.846
you know the instructor scotty he fought
01:35:21.846 --> 01:35:24.946
mma he's done it all but it's
01:35:24.946 --> 01:35:28.426
it's not set up as a here's jiu-jitsu monday
01:35:28.426 --> 01:35:31.186
is jiu-jitsu night or monday you go to with this
01:35:31.186 --> 01:35:34.306
instructor and it's jiu-jitsu tuesday you do striking
01:35:34.306 --> 01:35:37.266
it's more of it's more all
01:35:37.266 --> 01:35:40.586
all-encompassing you know wouldn't to well
01:35:40.586 --> 01:35:44.006
round a kid that doesn't give
01:35:44.006 --> 01:35:46.786
a shit about a tournament or anything else they don't you
01:35:46.786 --> 01:35:49.626
know they don't want to go to worlds they're in
01:35:49.626 --> 01:35:52.646
this as a development for you might be development
01:35:52.646 --> 01:35:57.986
for other things you know as as the priority that's what is you know that's
01:35:57.986 --> 01:36:02.566
the way we do things and you know i think it's the right thing any reason y'all
01:36:02.566 --> 01:36:07.346
don't yeah y'all do some tournaments for none yeah it's just it's just not pushed
01:36:07.346 --> 01:36:10.986
if but if i wanted to sign up like if the kid if the.
01:36:11.486 --> 01:36:15.866
The adult or whatever if they wanted to be in a jiu-jitsu tournament absolutely
01:36:15.866 --> 01:36:21.606
they can go sign up on their own yes so they could go to y'all place and still
01:36:21.606 --> 01:36:26.466
get the best of it just wouldn't have probably wouldn't have coached there at
01:36:26.466 --> 01:36:29.186
the tournament because the team ain't going well.
01:36:29.946 --> 01:36:37.446
Typically if anyone if anyone were to sign up whoever whoever could go would go you know.
01:36:38.624 --> 01:36:45.264
Typically how it works. If I have one of my adults that I train with,
01:36:45.464 --> 01:36:48.544
if he's going to compete, if I can make it, I'm going to go watch.
01:36:48.664 --> 01:36:54.504
As a parent with my mindset, here's how I would approach this.
01:36:55.744 --> 01:37:01.304
And I hope this is good advice for the people that are listening because I know
01:37:01.304 --> 01:37:05.724
I'm different but it's worked and it's helped so many.
01:37:06.924 --> 01:37:10.144
And this is good information for parents because parents really don't understand
01:37:10.144 --> 01:37:14.404
unless they're coached up on how to approach this if my daughter was at a school
01:37:14.404 --> 01:37:22.704
like yours all right and did jiu-jitsu there and did the extra work and we felt
01:37:22.704 --> 01:37:26.624
not good about winning a competition,
01:37:27.284 --> 01:37:30.244
i don't give a fuck i don't care i don't
01:37:30.244 --> 01:37:32.924
know you're a freak freak i don't care if you feel good or
01:37:32.924 --> 01:37:35.604
bad about that like those are things
01:37:35.604 --> 01:37:38.524
you got to learn to control but i'm saying like she's been working really
01:37:38.524 --> 01:37:41.344
hard she says daddy i want to compete in just
01:37:41.344 --> 01:37:44.144
tournament all right you remember have you done
01:37:44.144 --> 01:37:48.884
the extra work all she checked all the boxes then yeah i'll start putting you
01:37:48.884 --> 01:37:56.304
into just two tournaments she would go let the let coach know there i would
01:37:56.304 --> 01:38:03.084
then get her to after that conversation I would then get her to go back to the coach,
01:38:03.684 --> 01:38:06.564
when he could spare a minute and ask,
01:38:07.244 --> 01:38:12.644
how much would it cost for and are you available even available for this is
01:38:12.644 --> 01:38:17.324
this something you'll offer if my dad videos my matches and.
01:38:18.856 --> 01:38:25.496
Coming here early next week and as a instead of a lesson where we're going to roll and do technique,
01:38:26.296 --> 01:38:29.116
can we review this stuff can you
01:38:29.116 --> 01:38:32.076
sit here just watch these matches with me because
01:38:32.076 --> 01:38:34.856
I felt like I did good I felt like I do better I felt
01:38:34.856 --> 01:38:37.876
like I didn't do whatever can is that
01:38:37.876 --> 01:38:43.876
like can because I know in baseball we do lessons right yeah okay so a Monday
01:38:43.876 --> 01:38:48.436
lesson if it happened I had a baseball player i'll be like hey look this is
01:38:48.436 --> 01:38:52.396
his all his swings over this is his the uh the game he pitched whatever it is
01:38:52.396 --> 01:38:56.816
on that side of things that's how i would approach it now they may be like,
01:38:57.576 --> 01:39:00.516
never heard that we're gonna offer that i don't know but then
01:39:00.516 --> 01:39:03.576
i'll learn yeah and then from that
01:39:03.576 --> 01:39:08.276
point on it's i need i would have to have a conversation and an easy one my
01:39:08.276 --> 01:39:12.056
daughter done set the foundation because i made her take responsibility herself
01:39:12.056 --> 01:39:19.636
on on this and communicate effectively between her coach who's her coach and
01:39:19.636 --> 01:39:22.036
and me which also sets up the foundation for.
01:39:22.876 --> 01:39:25.656
That per that kid whenever they don't do good and
01:39:25.656 --> 01:39:29.336
coaches on their ass rightfully so for her
01:39:29.336 --> 01:39:34.076
to come back and like your coach got on me today oh good did you get better
01:39:34.076 --> 01:39:38.396
from it yeah he got on me for this oh this is what i was doing and this is what
01:39:38.396 --> 01:39:43.416
i should have been doing so yeah he got me right instead of the coaches don't
01:39:43.416 --> 01:39:48.736
like me or not setting them up to effectively communicate between,
01:39:49.496 --> 01:39:53.016
the two and then later on yeah
01:39:53.016 --> 01:39:55.836
uh whenever they get older handling stuff be an
01:39:55.836 --> 01:40:00.996
adult right so i said i said i said already do that now with my four-year-old
01:40:00.996 --> 01:40:07.016
of course i i wouldn't be asking about watching videos for just to be like yeah
01:40:07.016 --> 01:40:11.956
this girl we having trouble was fell in jiu-jitsu coach i ain't gonna lie yeah
01:40:11.956 --> 01:40:13.556
she went to grab the girl she fell down,
01:40:14.396 --> 01:40:21.496
no but like it's in in martial arts world in in jiu-jitsu uh and for the parents out there.
01:40:23.159 --> 01:40:27.279
Listening to this, set your kids up to handle their stuff and,
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:29.179
and effectively communicate it back to you.
01:40:29.539 --> 01:40:32.379
And then at a certain point through that conversation, like where I just said,
01:40:32.379 --> 01:40:34.919
I was at that point where I would go have a conversation with,
01:40:34.919 --> 01:40:39.359
we would go and I would go, how, what's the best way for me to go about this forward?
01:40:39.559 --> 01:40:43.239
Because like, if, if my daughter's doing something, I'm all in.
01:40:44.719 --> 01:40:48.839
And, and I would rather skip meals
01:40:48.839 --> 01:40:51.539
to be able to pay to do that or not
01:40:51.539 --> 01:40:55.959
buy any drink at the gas station or I would rather cut back on us to be able
01:40:55.959 --> 01:40:59.199
to invest in her development and her future because that's going to pay off
01:40:59.199 --> 01:41:04.179
right long run yeah what you would what you would want is if that's what the
01:41:04.179 --> 01:41:09.479
kid wants and that's what you want someone asks the coach or pitches the idea and says,
01:41:10.559 --> 01:41:14.139
hey I've heard about that you know they got some jiu-jitsu tournaments I'd like
01:41:14.139 --> 01:41:16.719
to do one and maybe he would say,
01:41:17.539 --> 01:41:20.079
all right, I think it's time.
01:41:20.219 --> 01:41:23.199
I really don't think you need to prepare for it.
01:41:24.725 --> 01:41:27.625
Find one you like of course you i'd want
01:41:27.625 --> 01:41:31.085
it like you'd want the blessing of the coach to be like you'd say you're prepared
01:41:31.085 --> 01:41:36.745
for it go do it you know be and he might say yeah go you know look around online
01:41:36.745 --> 01:41:42.265
if you find one just tell me the dates or he might say all right awesome listen
01:41:42.265 --> 01:41:46.945
i'm gonna find you one i'm gonna find one that i think is gonna be a safe one because of the rule
01:41:46.965 --> 01:41:50.485
sets i'm gonna find a safe one with a you
01:41:50.485 --> 01:41:54.125
know respectable referee yeah staff
01:41:54.125 --> 01:41:57.365
and put together by an organization that i trust or
01:41:57.365 --> 01:42:00.065
an organization that i want to support maybe i
01:42:00.065 --> 01:42:02.785
don't want to support this other organization because i don't like the way they
01:42:02.785 --> 01:42:05.665
do things you know so yeah let
01:42:05.665 --> 01:42:11.845
me find one or he might say listen i know that might that might be a desire
01:42:11.845 --> 01:42:17.625
i do have a better idea for for development if if you want to let's hear that
01:42:17.625 --> 01:42:22.425
right and then let's hear that right now and then he would give it so but yeah
01:42:22.425 --> 01:42:25.085
for for a parent who might be a little too impatient.
01:42:25.645 --> 01:42:28.805
They they don't talk to the coach they don't have the kid talk to the coach
01:42:28.805 --> 01:42:33.065
they just go find they just type in jujitsu tournament louisiana and they just
01:42:33.065 --> 01:42:38.025
sign up and they go and the coach doesn't even know and he would he would say
01:42:38.025 --> 01:42:41.345
man i wish i knew about it there could have been this could
01:42:41.395 --> 01:42:44.195
been a better better experience had i known about it you know
01:42:44.195 --> 01:42:47.115
that's the same thing for the kind of
01:42:47.115 --> 01:42:50.155
the uh culture that some of
01:42:50.155 --> 01:42:54.075
this travel ball has created where it's they see
01:42:54.075 --> 01:42:57.015
playing in the facebook post and
01:42:57.015 --> 01:43:00.135
all that stuff as what this is about and
01:43:00.135 --> 01:43:03.635
they want to do do that more
01:43:03.635 --> 01:43:07.495
than practice and prepare themselves so like
01:43:07.495 --> 01:43:10.815
when it when the spring comes around for like our younger teams our youngest
01:43:10.815 --> 01:43:17.895
teams uh if they're a first year ball team they don't play fall ball they don't
01:43:17.895 --> 01:43:21.855
play a fall ball tournament their first weekend eligible to play is like the
01:43:21.855 --> 01:43:27.675
first weekend in march and usually that's like the nicest weather for baseball that first weekend i'm.
01:43:28.992 --> 01:43:31.892
There remember we do the development stuff in fall then
01:43:31.892 --> 01:43:34.712
they'll learn more strategy kind of baseball stuff in the
01:43:34.712 --> 01:43:40.752
spring but it's hard to set a schedule because we want to see we're going to
01:43:40.752 --> 01:43:45.092
go see where we're at how we respond how things we got to work on and over the
01:43:45.092 --> 01:43:50.092
course of you know a certain time frame win lose or draw in a tournament we
01:43:50.092 --> 01:43:53.432
got to get these certain things accomplished and with the younger group of course
01:43:53.432 --> 01:43:54.512
it takes a little bit longer right,
01:43:55.092 --> 01:43:57.492
So from the first tournament,
01:43:58.012 --> 01:44:03.372
don't schedule the next two weekends off to make sure y'all get it in maybe.
01:44:03.632 --> 01:44:05.472
I mean, it needs to be a scrimmage instead of a tournament.
01:44:05.952 --> 01:44:07.532
But some of these people just want to play, play, play, play.
01:44:07.612 --> 01:44:10.292
My kid's going to play. We'll play. We'll play.
01:44:11.452 --> 01:44:15.472
Like your kid's involved in something.
01:44:15.572 --> 01:44:20.312
You should go all in. I get it. But where's the development if you're always just playing?
01:44:20.872 --> 01:44:23.912
You know what I'm saying? your jump shot if you just play
01:44:23.912 --> 01:44:26.812
like and you want to be a high level basketball player
01:44:26.812 --> 01:44:29.772
if you just play you never work your your technical stuff
01:44:29.772 --> 01:44:32.872
on the you don't work on your jump shot how do
01:44:32.872 --> 01:44:36.732
you become more efficient how do you get better how do you level up yeah
01:44:36.732 --> 01:44:39.752
to get on a little more about like
01:44:39.752 --> 01:44:42.612
i guess just kids in general youth in general
01:44:42.612 --> 01:44:46.272
how do you feel right now about you
01:44:46.272 --> 01:44:49.092
know we talked about uh maybe some some of
01:44:49.092 --> 01:44:51.732
the like the actual need for a little bit of
01:44:51.732 --> 01:44:55.372
aggression and you know in a young boy and maybe being
01:44:55.372 --> 01:45:01.332
being able to use anger as a as a tool you know or at least being able to maybe
01:45:01.332 --> 01:45:06.052
harness some anger or an aggression and use it towards their development but
01:45:06.052 --> 01:45:12.612
what do you think about like toughness right now how do the how do these kids compare in toughness to,
01:45:14.328 --> 01:45:18.968
even five years ago is it is it different is it roughly the same.
01:45:20.728 --> 01:45:25.608
Of course it's different nowadays they do peel back a lot of aggression in school
01:45:25.608 --> 01:45:31.808
you know i didn't think what when i was in school fourth or fifth grade getting
01:45:31.808 --> 01:45:35.748
i got in a fight in the classroom we had to walk to the principal's office we
01:45:35.748 --> 01:45:37.268
made it they made it shake hands and
01:45:37.348 --> 01:45:40.648
they sent us back to class together, right?
01:45:42.768 --> 01:45:46.748
Nowadays, it's so, aggression's so peeled.
01:45:46.828 --> 01:45:51.688
I'm not saying fighting in school is a ticket, but, like, I think there's a
01:45:51.688 --> 01:45:56.868
certain part of the social media aspect that kids, a fight gets put on, they lose the fight.
01:45:56.868 --> 01:46:00.908
They don't know how to handle that because they've never, like,
01:46:00.948 --> 01:46:02.628
they've been safeguarded, I guess.
01:46:04.388 --> 01:46:08.268
He these kids they failure
01:46:08.268 --> 01:46:11.068
isn't a bad thing for them
01:46:11.068 --> 01:46:14.648
from zero to 18 they work
01:46:14.648 --> 01:46:18.248
hard at something and fail and they learn from it because guess when when you
01:46:18.248 --> 01:46:23.188
start failing after 18 all right that's whenever you like you it's expensive
01:46:23.188 --> 01:46:31.228
yes it's expensive that's whenever you're big but The red is a lot more prevalent
01:46:31.228 --> 01:46:33.348
than the green on the company books.
01:46:34.448 --> 01:46:37.908
You have to be able to let your kids fail.
01:46:38.468 --> 01:46:43.428
Don't step in and try to stop them from failing. Not in the classroom. Not in the classroom.
01:46:45.928 --> 01:46:52.008
They're at practice. They're at practice with that coach or that team that you allow them to play on.
01:46:52.508 --> 01:46:56.148
If you need to coach them during that or,
01:46:57.268 --> 01:47:02.428
tell them what to do during that you didn't do your job before y'all got out
01:47:02.428 --> 01:47:06.408
of the car you didn't do your job setting them up,
01:47:07.428 --> 01:47:11.308
to be if you have to step in because of a discipline deal where your kid is
01:47:11.308 --> 01:47:14.348
won't keep his hands to his self and this and that,
01:47:15.428 --> 01:47:20.488
and maybe coach is doing this and tied up and that,
01:47:21.620 --> 01:47:26.200
get it i i get things like that but i'm seeing people that are telling their
01:47:26.200 --> 01:47:29.960
they they have a kid and they're trying to tell them how to hold a bat while
01:47:29.960 --> 01:47:35.500
he's in the batter's box or they're trying to hold the it's at practice like
01:47:35.500 --> 01:47:36.440
they're trying to tell them how.
01:47:37.960 --> 01:47:43.940
Like look let them fit if their kid is instructed by a coach to go do this drill
01:47:43.940 --> 01:47:48.040
over here while he's right here and other coaches right here doing other drills
01:47:48.040 --> 01:47:50.060
to try and get more reps in,
01:47:50.560 --> 01:47:53.600
and your kid's doing it wrong guess what
01:47:53.600 --> 01:47:56.880
you can't say nothing when the
01:47:56.880 --> 01:47:59.680
coach sees it let him keep doing it wrong let that coach get in his shit
01:47:59.680 --> 01:48:02.620
it's good for those guys it's good
01:48:02.620 --> 01:48:05.380
for them it's also good that if you
01:48:05.380 --> 01:48:08.220
do see that that whenever y'all leave
01:48:08.220 --> 01:48:11.120
practice it's always a good question to ask or
01:48:11.120 --> 01:48:13.980
leave the game what did what you learned today how you
01:48:13.980 --> 01:48:16.760
felt how you felt you did remember my
01:48:16.760 --> 01:48:20.100
daughter came first dance recital little bumblebee aubrey
01:48:20.100 --> 01:48:24.480
she came off the stage and she
01:48:24.480 --> 01:48:27.980
asked me daddy did i do good i
01:48:27.980 --> 01:48:35.520
was a little rough at this point i said i told her the truth i said you just
01:48:35.520 --> 01:48:39.760
practiced i don't know what y'all practiced at dancing uh or how much i practice
01:48:39.760 --> 01:48:47.200
but you just spent a year at dancing and you had to look at the lady on side the curtain,
01:48:47.900 --> 01:48:52.260
instead of doing the dance like do you need more than a year to learn a dance,
01:48:53.040 --> 01:48:57.500
what do we need to do and late my wife's like stop lan stop tell her she did
01:48:57.500 --> 01:49:04.060
good i'm like no i'm not telling her she did good i'm not saying you did bad i told her that.
01:49:04.860 --> 01:49:10.660
Hey and then i asked her not not that i said that I hate to answer your question
01:49:10.660 --> 01:49:13.500
with a question, but how do you feel you did?
01:49:14.360 --> 01:49:20.400
And that's whenever she said, uh, I, I thought, uh, uh, she says something along
01:49:20.400 --> 01:49:23.780
like I should have did better or I could have did better.
01:49:26.668 --> 01:49:30.908
She of course they're four and i get it and you got to do with a class like
01:49:30.908 --> 01:49:33.768
i'm expecting more out of my kid of course and and our kids that select,
01:49:34.928 --> 01:49:37.968
i let her fail i didn't
01:49:37.968 --> 01:49:41.348
harp on failure i never same
01:49:41.348 --> 01:49:44.208
thing in the classroom i never asked her to make a's or
01:49:44.208 --> 01:49:46.888
a's are not mandatory in my household a's are not like what
01:49:46.888 --> 01:49:50.668
we're i'm not striving for her to make a's what
01:49:50.668 --> 01:49:53.408
i'm striving for her for is the same things i preach to
01:49:53.408 --> 01:49:57.348
these guys the rules are 100% effort
01:49:57.348 --> 01:50:00.288
100% focus and you have
01:50:00.288 --> 01:50:03.048
to control how you respond otherwise you can't move
01:50:03.048 --> 01:50:06.228
forward that's what I ask for and she makes
01:50:06.228 --> 01:50:09.108
sure and she wants to be a doctor and and every
01:50:09.108 --> 01:50:12.208
kid's different uh but I think
01:50:12.208 --> 01:50:15.048
the toughness it ain't far under
01:50:15.048 --> 01:50:18.268
their skin it ain't far away they're still resilient kids
01:50:18.268 --> 01:50:22.968
and and and smart and more evolved on the technical side I guess you could say
01:50:22.968 --> 01:50:28.488
it's scary it's scary it's scary involved right i think it's underneath a thin
01:50:28.488 --> 01:50:36.568
layer of parents displacing blame instead of hold like telling their kids to be accountable,
01:50:37.448 --> 01:50:41.108
and then putting a little more accountability on them for even things that may
01:50:41.108 --> 01:50:46.908
be outside their control uh for parents protecting their kid from from failure
01:50:46.908 --> 01:50:50.328
in an athletic environment or,
01:50:52.348 --> 01:50:53.228
competitive environment.
01:50:55.708 --> 01:50:59.608
From parents asking you know little Johnny,
01:51:00.468 --> 01:51:07.048
we had a we were winning and little Johnny got in the game or we go in the last
01:51:07.048 --> 01:51:10.848
inning and little Johnny made two errors and they scored the winning run when
01:51:10.848 --> 01:51:12.908
he made the second error he got on base because he made the first one.
01:51:15.272 --> 01:51:18.492
So we're gonna lie and not say that
01:51:18.492 --> 01:51:21.252
that that didn't happen now did
01:51:21.252 --> 01:51:24.172
that lose the game there's plenty of things throughout the game we could all did better
01:51:24.172 --> 01:51:26.912
there's certain things you could of course you could
01:51:26.912 --> 01:51:30.032
have did better maybe we could have did better than that thing maybe
01:51:30.032 --> 01:51:32.732
i realize look this daddy looking at
01:51:32.732 --> 01:51:35.492
you from my time you looked a little fatigued when you got out there in that last and
01:51:35.492 --> 01:51:38.192
we gotta we have to work to get in shape we will run the levy by
01:51:38.192 --> 01:51:41.232
the house that'll prepare you so that way there's
01:51:41.232 --> 01:51:44.132
no fatigue errors errors are gonna happen in
01:51:44.132 --> 01:51:49.512
all aspects of life in baseball i try to explain to our guys those errors errors
01:51:49.512 --> 01:51:53.452
always going to happen because of a field condition like it's a bad hop or something
01:51:53.452 --> 01:52:00.392
like that if we put ourselves in the best position and work our tails off sometimes
01:52:00.392 --> 01:52:02.912
those hard hit balls are gonna gonna get us still,
01:52:03.972 --> 01:52:10.572
we're gonna make it we're gonna we're gonna fail all right but how do you respond
01:52:10.572 --> 01:52:13.892
how do you get better from that if little johnny makes two errors to end the
01:52:13.892 --> 01:52:15.972
game and he gets in the car and says,
01:52:16.652 --> 01:52:20.192
i lost the game all right look i
01:52:20.192 --> 01:52:23.032
get you i get you feel bad son you wanted to win
01:52:23.032 --> 01:52:28.352
well we would have won i didn't ask that did you want to win yes sir look i
01:52:28.352 --> 01:52:32.432
wanted y'all to win too and everybody on that team and y'all look it happened
01:52:32.432 --> 01:52:37.552
how do we get better from that all right because it always sucks for every parent
01:52:37.552 --> 01:52:40.812
to see that kid upset or distraught but that's part of a growing.
01:52:42.132 --> 01:52:45.292
Building thing that's part of a turn
01:52:45.292 --> 01:52:49.492
that into let's do more work yeah let's
01:52:49.492 --> 01:52:56.432
let's let's do more so you can decrease the percentages of those failures happening
01:52:56.432 --> 01:53:03.812
but i don't think enough parents are are simplistically honest with the situations
01:53:03.812 --> 01:53:07.132
i think some of the culture.
01:53:08.592 --> 01:53:14.012
Parenting i think it's harder these days in my personal i don't have the experience
01:53:14.012 --> 01:53:18.672
with it but i see like buddies of mine that have a kid and them and the mother
01:53:18.672 --> 01:53:21.032
are not together or whatever,
01:53:22.172 --> 01:53:26.812
you're learning how to reparent after you've been parenting together for a while,
01:53:27.592 --> 01:53:32.032
and then and then you meet someone and now you're learning how to,
01:53:32.712 --> 01:53:37.532
kind of reparent with the structure and discipline of like a two different core
01:53:37.532 --> 01:53:43.012
groups I guess you could say and I think when that first happens of course it
01:53:43.012 --> 01:53:44.292
affects the kid but I think,
01:53:44.992 --> 01:53:46.832
parents get away from being honest,
01:53:47.552 --> 01:53:51.932
because they want that kid to want to be with them when they're with them and
01:53:51.932 --> 01:53:54.372
they don't want to whatever and I think,
01:53:55.272 --> 01:54:01.692
instead of Going through that process of whatever, not being together and coming
01:54:01.692 --> 01:54:05.112
to terms like, hey, listen, we're still going to be we're going to be honest
01:54:05.112 --> 01:54:10.132
with our kid, not rough or strict or yell or a lot or whatever.
01:54:10.592 --> 01:54:12.772
But we have to be honest with our kid.
01:54:14.491 --> 01:54:20.831
But when they, we can't lie to our kid and said, oh, don't worry about that error.
01:54:21.391 --> 01:54:25.751
So-and-so made three errors in the second inning that gave up four runs.
01:54:26.951 --> 01:54:30.131
It's not your fault. We would have never been at that point.
01:54:30.391 --> 01:54:32.191
No, take that accountability.
01:54:32.791 --> 01:54:39.231
I just think that being honest with them makes them tough. And you don't have to be brutally honest.
01:54:39.491 --> 01:54:44.051
I think the first time when I told Aubrey about the, he spent a year in dancing.
01:54:44.671 --> 01:54:49.531
And you have to look at the lady dancing behind the curtain to she's four.
01:54:50.191 --> 01:54:51.931
Lacey, my wife says, they all do that.
01:54:52.731 --> 01:54:55.331
I don't, I don't, that's not all my kids.
01:54:57.051 --> 01:55:00.451
That's not all my kids. I don't care what all those kids are doing.
01:55:01.211 --> 01:55:02.811
She's been dancing for a year.
01:55:04.431 --> 01:55:07.711
Our goal, when we talk about our goal from that point on, because,
01:55:07.951 --> 01:55:10.891
uh, you know, all the grandparents were, oh, you did so good.
01:55:11.131 --> 01:55:13.951
No, she looked cute because the outfit looked cute.
01:55:13.951 --> 01:55:19.891
You didn't you didn't do good she walked out there and watched the lady dance behind a curtain,
01:55:21.411 --> 01:55:24.651
that she's been practicing for a year and at that time too i didn't i don't
01:55:24.651 --> 01:55:27.071
know what goes in the dance i think they just practice they put the music on
01:55:27.071 --> 01:55:30.791
and practice that dance and it like she should be able to remember i'm also
01:55:30.791 --> 01:55:32.031
the guy that like at that point,
01:55:32.871 --> 01:55:39.211
the goals were set for the next year was for her to to remember the dances herself,
01:55:41.311 --> 01:55:44.511
we also put it in there like if we have if we're going to do it if we need to
01:55:44.511 --> 01:55:51.771
do extra we need to practice extra that's what we're going to do now when your kid.
01:55:53.991 --> 01:56:00.211
Call me just being a he said call me being biased with my kid but i'm going
01:56:00.211 --> 01:56:01.151
to say this and i'm going to explain
01:56:01.151 --> 01:56:06.991
it when you have a kid that has a lot of lot a lot a lot of success,
01:56:07.951 --> 01:56:09.691
and you're still honest with them.
01:56:11.548 --> 01:56:14.888
Still helps uh and that
01:56:14.888 --> 01:56:18.528
sometimes there may be situations where you
01:56:18.528 --> 01:56:22.768
have to present opportunities of failure to
01:56:22.768 --> 01:56:27.088
them or put them in a position where something else
01:56:27.088 --> 01:56:30.228
may factor in on on their production or whatever
01:56:30.228 --> 01:56:32.908
and affect them so that way they can get the
01:56:32.908 --> 01:56:35.648
challenges because like aubrey's had a lot
01:56:35.648 --> 01:56:38.608
of success in this dance stuff so they went
01:56:38.608 --> 01:56:41.648
to nationals in Gatlinburg last year we drove
01:56:41.648 --> 01:56:45.328
back whatever the 10 hour 11 hour trip this is
01:56:45.328 --> 01:56:48.768
my idea of me setting her up for
01:56:48.768 --> 01:56:51.488
failure to get better and learn from it and
01:56:51.488 --> 01:56:55.408
grow she just danced every day for eight
01:56:55.408 --> 01:56:59.588
days but I don't know what it was and she was in like
01:56:59.588 --> 01:57:02.688
I don't remember how much this year she's in eight competition
01:57:02.688 --> 01:57:05.708
dances I think it is last year was five
01:57:05.708 --> 01:57:14.048
whatever I expect my kids to do more uh I knew she was fatigued and then just
01:57:14.048 --> 01:57:17.668
riding back with a car full of stuff because my wife packs the whole house to
01:57:17.668 --> 01:57:24.628
go on vacation or go to the dance dance all week 10 11 hour drive back,
01:57:25.208 --> 01:57:32.748
on the way back I called uh shout out to Allison Hall uh she's the Nichols dance
01:57:32.748 --> 01:57:34.688
coach now she was at Central Lafourche.
01:57:35.188 --> 01:57:36.848
We became friends when I was over there.
01:57:37.828 --> 01:57:41.168
I got with her about doing private instruction with Aubrey.
01:57:41.848 --> 01:57:45.728
So, on the way back, and she had, we had did some before.
01:57:45.928 --> 01:57:51.508
On the way back, I knew that the day after eight, whatever, six days of comp
01:57:51.508 --> 01:57:55.348
dancing in a row competition, yada yada, going hard, this competition, I knew,
01:57:56.730 --> 01:58:00.650
10, 11 hours of travel back. I knew that the day after that,
01:58:01.290 --> 01:58:06.070
I don't know if anybody would have been at their peak performance levels.
01:58:06.510 --> 01:58:09.110
So I set Harvey up for a three hour.
01:58:09.750 --> 01:58:14.110
I set her up for a two a day where I called coach Allison.
01:58:16.250 --> 01:58:21.510
We got her lined up to come to the dance studio in the Zalman's. We got that booked up.
01:58:22.210 --> 01:58:25.730
Shout out to Miss Nicole, Dance Unlimited Parody, Dance Unlimited Competition
01:58:25.730 --> 01:58:27.110
Company, whatever. That's where my daughter goes.
01:58:27.730 --> 01:58:30.910
She came in. I said, look, this is what I want.
01:58:31.370 --> 01:58:39.870
I want a two a day. I want three hours from 9, 10, 11, 12. Yeah, 9 to 12.
01:58:40.730 --> 01:58:42.350
I'll pay for y'all to go eat lunch.
01:58:44.250 --> 01:58:47.750
Where you want to go. I'll give the lunch money. You take her to lunch.
01:58:48.570 --> 01:58:51.390
And then when y'all come back, two more hours.
01:58:52.250 --> 01:58:59.110
In my mind i put her in a position that had the odds it's kind of stacked against
01:58:59.110 --> 01:59:01.850
her right yeah yeah yeah but i think that's okay i think that makes her tough
01:59:01.850 --> 01:59:04.370
because my thought she's tough,
01:59:06.390 --> 01:59:12.910
uh she's mentally tough i think with her having the success that she's had in dance i think,
01:59:13.630 --> 01:59:16.870
her having me setting her up in that day i didn't
01:59:16.870 --> 01:59:19.690
tell her i'm setting you up for failure I looked at it more as
01:59:19.690 --> 01:59:26.310
like I'm setting it up as a challenge and I know she's gonna have certain restrictions
01:59:26.310 --> 01:59:33.370
just being sore fatigue and whatever well it was rough for but Allison pushed
01:59:33.370 --> 01:59:38.110
her they got better and I don't care if they didn't get better at one dance move that day,
01:59:39.210 --> 01:59:44.490
my daughter got better that day yeah for sure because she had to push through.
01:59:45.670 --> 01:59:50.270
Situations where things This was what she pushed through It wasn't as easy as
01:59:50.270 --> 01:59:55.770
it normally was For her to get And learn something Normally If.
01:59:56.712 --> 01:59:59.532
Teach her something one two three try she got
01:59:59.532 --> 02:00:02.572
it took longer because she's
02:00:02.572 --> 02:00:05.512
fatigued or whatever jet lag
02:00:05.512 --> 02:00:08.612
because i was going hunting on the way back yeah oh i think
02:00:08.612 --> 02:00:12.732
people protect their kids too much and don't don't allow
02:00:12.732 --> 02:00:15.572
to just being protective of them
02:00:15.572 --> 02:00:18.692
you don't see like the good in
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in putting them in challenging spots well so
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i don't think it's just i think it's more
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it's more everyone like every people
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don't do that to themselves right like people don't
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people that are comfortable don't go get uncomfortable and
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that's what's so cool about jujitsu as
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as a thing for for adults and kids is you
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can have a you can have a comfortable lifestyle and you
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got this thing where you can go put yourself in
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a extremely uncomfortable situations you
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know repetitively and you learn
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and you learn quickly that you learn what
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to do to survive basically you learn how to stay fine that's
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job one is to learn how to get comfortable in
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spots where you're uncomfortable and there's nothing like there's nothing else
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like it to me in a sense that everything is urgent like you cannot wait until
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you're ready you know nothing is about you anymore Nothing is about how good you are anymore.
02:01:24.492 --> 02:01:28.912
It's about like all these variables against you, you know?
02:01:29.092 --> 02:01:33.072
How good that person is, how big that kid is, you know?
02:01:33.272 --> 02:01:38.512
I'm a girl that's a boy and he's 100 pounds heavier than me and I'm on the bottom
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and he's trying to put all his weight on me, like, so what?
02:01:42.993 --> 02:01:46.373
I just taught you what to do. If you wasn't paying attention,
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maybe next time you'll pay more attention because this is very uncomfortable.
02:01:50.293 --> 02:01:52.433
And it's urgent because you can't breathe right now.
02:01:52.873 --> 02:01:56.793
Like there's nothing else like that that is times ticking.
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Like you have to do something. It doesn't matter if you're crying.
02:02:00.853 --> 02:02:02.273
It doesn't matter if you can't breathe.
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You have to. You have to move. Like you got to move your body. You got to turn.
02:02:06.513 --> 02:02:10.093
You got to push. Whatever the thing is, it's extremely urgent.
02:02:10.093 --> 02:02:15.673
And I think that's why it's why adults get, you know, so hooked on it so quickly
02:02:15.673 --> 02:02:21.373
is because it's it's a big it's a big slap in the face to any to anything you're
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used to or good at or used to being good at stuff. You're not. It doesn't matter.
02:02:25.113 --> 02:02:27.773
Doesn't matter what else you're good at. You're not going to be good at it.
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Or if you are, there's people set in place that are going to humble you.
02:02:32.793 --> 02:02:34.513
You know, that that's the way it's set up.
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Same thing with the kids. You get in a kid that he's on a travel baseball team and he's,
02:02:40.293 --> 02:02:46.533
he's super athletic and he's got five big brothers that beat him up and he comes
02:02:46.533 --> 02:02:51.393
into the class and he's got some eight year old girls that can hold him on the
02:02:51.393 --> 02:02:52.713
ground and he can't get up. Yeah.
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That's making him tap. It's a big slap in his face. Right.
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And so what you like, you're going to have to do it again.
02:02:59.733 --> 02:03:01.133
So it doesn't matter how, how
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annoyed you get or how, how aggravated you get, or if you cry about it.
02:03:05.833 --> 02:03:10.233
If you're going to stay, you have to figure out how to be okay with that girl
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crushing you into the ground, right?
02:03:11.933 --> 02:03:17.873
And as you get better, the coach, he's going to make sure you always have things
02:03:17.873 --> 02:03:22.473
that make it harder. So he's going to put you in handicapped situations to where
02:03:22.473 --> 02:03:25.593
you don't get to start 50-50, you know?
02:03:25.773 --> 02:03:29.913
It's not sacked in your favor. Yeah, you start when the guy's sitting on your chest. Now start.
02:03:30.133 --> 02:03:33.933
And once you can get out of that, now start when you're face down on the ground,
02:03:34.173 --> 02:03:39.733
you know? So it's not like, you know, what I would consider a team sport.
02:03:39.913 --> 02:03:42.933
Like once you're the best on the team, you're best on the team.
02:03:43.093 --> 02:03:45.253
Like you're good. You're just good at everything.
02:03:46.747 --> 02:03:50.087
What no matter how good you are in in
02:03:50.087 --> 02:03:53.107
this you know either someone's better
02:03:53.107 --> 02:03:58.627
or the situation will be altered to where you're not good and that's that's
02:03:58.627 --> 02:04:02.987
what makes you good like that's when you get better is when you know yeah you
02:04:02.987 --> 02:04:08.307
yeah no one could take you down but start start taking down already that now
02:04:08.307 --> 02:04:11.147
you're gonna get better when i was when i was young uh.
02:04:13.607 --> 02:04:18.287
And i don't correlate jiu-jitsu with
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fighting uh i i paid attention to it so much now that like haven't done it yet
02:04:26.227 --> 02:04:35.007
but that it's it's an art it really is an art and being mano-a-mano,
02:04:35.687 --> 02:04:40.747
being able to control and put put someone in unfavorable position and now you have to get out,
02:04:41.927 --> 02:04:47.387
where in in the classrooms nobody's failing they still passing you and when
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everybody gets the candy even if you got a red light in the classroom or they
02:04:51.887 --> 02:04:57.747
man i didn't let if if my kid wasn't good at daycare momma share don't give
02:04:57.747 --> 02:05:01.567
that kid no candy i mean both my girls really got candy but,
02:05:03.307 --> 02:05:11.167
look in in travel baseball what hinders a lot of development and a lot of the mental toughness is.
02:05:12.047 --> 02:05:15.167
There's certain program a lot programs coaches whatever
02:05:15.167 --> 02:05:18.787
you want the the ones out there that look at
02:05:18.787 --> 02:05:21.907
the tournament oh oh man that's
02:05:21.907 --> 02:05:24.727
a good teammate uh-uh not then not not
02:05:24.727 --> 02:05:27.967
now we're not gonna play there they're in that tournament instead of
02:05:27.967 --> 02:05:30.927
that's top team this day yeah let's
02:05:30.927 --> 02:05:33.627
we'll bring them oh that's the top team if i'm a double that's the top
02:05:33.627 --> 02:05:36.627
teams in double a yeah yeah that's where we're going that's
02:05:36.627 --> 02:05:40.707
the top teams in triple a that's where we're going because i
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don't know if the goal in jiu-jitsu is to get to be a black belt or you're
02:05:44.587 --> 02:05:48.507
doing it for love it exile whatever but
02:05:48.507 --> 02:05:51.127
my goal for if if we
02:05:51.127 --> 02:05:54.867
start a year double a we better look so
02:05:54.867 --> 02:05:57.687
i'm in the middle of that year our goal was to go move from
02:05:57.687 --> 02:06:00.487
double a to get to triple a our goal is to get from triple
02:06:00.487 --> 02:06:03.387
a to majors that's like the goal is to move up
02:06:03.387 --> 02:06:06.307
through development not through let me
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go recruit guys to come play for this team let me go steal
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you know what i'm saying yeah you can't if they're never in an unfavorable position
02:06:15.467 --> 02:06:20.427
or uncomfortable position like you said like you can control in jujitsu if you're
02:06:20.427 --> 02:06:25.087
in a program that's not going out there and challenging the kids and putting
02:06:25.087 --> 02:06:27.607
them in unfavorable positions where,
02:06:27.847 --> 02:06:30.507
okay, we done did really good in these last two AA tournaments.
02:06:30.687 --> 02:06:33.767
Hey, there's a AAA tournament here. We'll go play against them.
02:06:34.387 --> 02:06:37.967
And I think select us two, us two, and.
02:06:39.230 --> 02:06:45.550
Times have changed. I think we used to do that. We used to do that a lot.
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I did it one time to a team that kept going.
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They played one game good. The next game would be horrific.
02:06:58.050 --> 02:07:02.790
If they beat a team, we'll double it, 11 or 10.
02:07:03.190 --> 02:07:08.990
We beat a team on a Saturday, 17-1, because as soon as we got up, they fell apart.
02:07:09.230 --> 02:07:14.250
We got to play them on Sunday morning? They whooped us 17-1.
02:07:14.810 --> 02:07:17.030
I had that kind of go on two tournaments.
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I got them out of double. I put them in a AAA tournament against an undefeated
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AAA team that was about to get moved up to majors.
02:07:25.910 --> 02:07:29.930
And look, here's what happened. We played, it was a cinch and raise.
02:07:30.050 --> 02:07:36.090
We played them, I think the first two innings or the three innings of tight baseball.
02:07:36.090 --> 02:07:39.830
Like, we're playing the best team we've ever played against,
02:07:39.830 --> 02:07:44.990
and it's three innings of, like, 0-0, whatever, close ball game we're in,
02:07:45.510 --> 02:07:47.450
and la-la-la, tied, whatever.
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And then one inning just fell apart.
02:07:50.470 --> 02:07:53.890
I love, it couldn't happen any better. Here's the message.
02:07:53.890 --> 02:08:01.690
If we can play and compete for three innings against one of the best AAA team in the state,
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what's stopping us from playing and competing every pitch or every inning or
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every minute that we're in competition?
02:08:13.650 --> 02:08:18.070
What's stopping us? There's always going to be successes and failures in games, right? Mm-hmm.
02:08:20.622 --> 02:08:24.602
That's not stopping us what's stopping us is that we're minute we're not mentally
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tough enough to handle either or we had success against that team yesterday
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in the double-a turn i beat them 17 to 1,
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they hit first in the first inning because we hire seed they scored a couple runs we let them,
02:08:37.622 --> 02:08:40.422
hitting the home run in the first inning lead to a two-run home
02:08:40.422 --> 02:08:44.122
run lead to six runs because we start walking people
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and and we're not understanding how
02:08:47.582 --> 02:08:50.562
to handle failure it's pretty cool whenever
02:08:50.562 --> 02:08:53.402
you you get to see uh the kids start to handle both
02:08:53.402 --> 02:08:56.242
failure and successes and take both of
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them like and process them it's pretty
02:08:59.342 --> 02:09:03.222
cool i'm sure whenever age is that man
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some groups take a little bit longer for me
02:09:07.542 --> 02:09:10.162
it just depends so the way it
02:09:10.162 --> 02:09:15.022
works like I'll I coached the
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group that's like they're in high school right now they're killing it I coached
02:09:18.322 --> 02:09:24.102
them from 10s all the way up through I'll tell you when they got it they got
02:09:24.102 --> 02:09:34.182
it when uh 13 you fall 13 you fall they got it because they realized that we
02:09:34.182 --> 02:09:35.362
weren't just physically,
02:09:36.382 --> 02:09:41.882
like we were still physically strong, but we had been majors since we were 10.
02:09:43.942 --> 02:09:50.422
And they were always, like nobody mispracticed. They always showed up. We always worked.
02:09:50.882 --> 02:09:57.342
But like playing majors, the margins are a little different.
02:09:59.099 --> 02:10:02.639
That's probably not a good example. Because we still competed.
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I just kept trying to push and get through to them.
02:10:05.639 --> 02:10:10.439
We'd get through whatever. They turned 12 and they're just going to use their
02:10:10.439 --> 02:10:15.219
muscles just to hit instead of pairing that with technique and a mental approach.
02:10:15.899 --> 02:10:22.099
Some teams, man, I'll tell you, the teams that come in and they start at AA,
02:10:23.019 --> 02:10:28.539
when you can get them to handle, I call it, say, an eye level.
02:10:28.539 --> 02:10:31.859
I'm not going to no baseball game to ride a roller coaster like when things
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are going good great for the other team they're on this side of the roller coaster,
02:10:36.739 --> 02:10:41.359
and y'all are allowing that to put us on this side of the roller coaster it don't work like that,
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like things aren't things aren't ever always as good as they seem or as bad stay eye level,
02:10:49.119 --> 02:10:52.539
enjoy the game and the adversity and the challenges that it faces but this is
02:10:52.539 --> 02:10:55.959
not a roller coaster ride we're not going to be up way up here and then down
02:10:55.959 --> 02:10:58.559
way down here and then that's exhausting.
02:10:59.639 --> 02:11:02.739
It's tough to say, man, I can't even pinpoint like it because every team's different
02:11:02.739 --> 02:11:09.679
and it's taken us a little bit longer as the years have kind of gone by and
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I don't know if that's because we stopped like challenging them a little bit more.
02:11:13.319 --> 02:11:21.239
Like I know we're double A but we're going to challenge them against triple A this weekend.
02:11:21.539 --> 02:11:26.079
We'll play two tournaments in the spring and then either we moved up to triple
02:11:26.079 --> 02:11:30.259
A and earned it or I'm putting this in AAA because we need to see what it is
02:11:30.259 --> 02:11:33.519
and da da da and then you go do that and then.
02:11:34.639 --> 02:11:39.579
Kind of eye opener it's there's no blueprint like I said but.
02:11:40.779 --> 02:11:45.619
I'll tell you seeing our guys that like on that majors team that,
02:11:46.659 --> 02:11:50.119
it was always pretty solid man we always were we had a bunch of little brothers
02:11:50.119 --> 02:11:55.539
on the team a bunch of dudes that all they never missed practice for us They,
02:11:55.799 --> 02:11:59.299
if we had committed, they were committed, bro.
02:12:00.119 --> 02:12:04.439
That was an awesome group, bro. Shout out to Spencer and Jacob. C.W.
02:12:05.179 --> 02:12:08.639
And Braden Mouton, Chicken Little. Kevin LeConte.
02:12:10.519 --> 02:12:16.799
They always were committed. They worked the tails off. They liked to have a good time and joke.
02:12:17.219 --> 02:12:21.399
But we had competed in majors since we were young and didn't win the major state
02:12:21.399 --> 02:12:23.399
championship until 13. Yeah.
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We kept pushing the the the technique and stuff
02:12:28.702 --> 02:12:31.602
to pair with the strength and we had developed the tools to
02:12:31.602 --> 02:12:34.422
have the strength to play the game and if technique did fail
02:12:34.422 --> 02:12:37.982
they could still compete with just but
02:12:37.982 --> 02:12:41.742
it got to a point where pairing it all together that
02:12:41.742 --> 02:12:44.562
happened 13 you fall oh i'll put
02:12:44.562 --> 02:12:48.022
them in put us in a fall league at la salle jack catalano
02:12:48.022 --> 02:12:50.922
had set it up and i'm i was against fall leagues because
02:12:50.922 --> 02:12:54.522
i didn't think i didn't want to play during the throne program but
02:12:54.522 --> 02:13:01.002
it was like a sunday or sunday morning double headers at la salle same time
02:13:01.002 --> 02:13:06.482
basically so i did it and it still worked out we still got our development in
02:13:06.482 --> 02:13:13.042
they uh they tried to out strengthen out to like i guess power play them because
02:13:13.042 --> 02:13:14.342
we had developed that power too,
02:13:15.522 --> 02:13:18.782
they tried just like out power play them by like swinging as
02:13:18.782 --> 02:13:22.602
hard as they could instead of putting it all together and at
02:13:22.602 --> 02:13:25.302
certain points before that we had done it but like i said the
02:13:25.302 --> 02:13:28.062
margins are different look if if you got
02:13:28.062 --> 02:13:30.862
a situation that that's favorable for
02:13:30.862 --> 02:13:36.962
you and your guy over swings through a pitch that he should piece up like that
02:13:36.962 --> 02:13:45.042
that's on us like we we that doesn't happen in team baseball uh but it just
02:13:45.042 --> 02:13:48.582
varies the hardest thing is the parents being able to sit in the stands.
02:13:50.282 --> 02:13:52.422
And them handle success and stuff too.
02:13:53.862 --> 02:13:57.482
Like we don't, I don't allow sending out this week. We don't allow our parents.
02:13:58.162 --> 02:14:01.142
We do not engage with the umpires.
02:14:01.922 --> 02:14:04.762
We keep the oohs and ahs subliminal. We don't blame the umpires.
02:14:05.442 --> 02:14:09.702
Our job, if we don't show up prepared to beat the other team and the umpires,
02:14:09.982 --> 02:14:11.502
we didn't show up ready to win.
02:14:13.182 --> 02:14:16.602
We got to get better. we we
02:14:16.602 --> 02:14:19.722
don't let them i said the message if
02:14:19.722 --> 02:14:22.462
you feel the need to if you feel the itch to coach your kid
02:14:22.462 --> 02:14:25.582
during the game don't scratch it i'll handle
02:14:25.582 --> 02:14:29.222
it just like so we went
02:14:29.222 --> 02:14:32.682
training in georgia about a week ago and
02:14:32.682 --> 02:14:36.102
we were at this gym in blue ridge georgia and they
02:14:36.102 --> 02:14:38.862
have you know you walk in they got a little parent section with like
02:14:38.862 --> 02:14:43.962
some bleachers just overlooking the mats and up on the wall right there in front
02:14:43.962 --> 02:14:47.762
of parents there's a big printed out poster I was looking for a picture of it
02:14:47.762 --> 02:14:54.022
earlier I wanted to read it to you but it's along the lines of you know you
02:14:54.022 --> 02:14:56.982
kid whatever you trust us your kids here here to learn.
02:14:59.478 --> 02:15:02.138
Way or the only way we would
02:15:02.138 --> 02:15:05.258
encourage you giving your kids uh you
02:15:05.258 --> 02:15:08.178
know tips and lessons from the from the sideline is
02:15:08.178 --> 02:15:13.218
if you if if you yourself train if
02:15:13.218 --> 02:15:16.518
that if that isn't the case and and
02:15:16.518 --> 02:15:19.238
you still feel the need feel free to wear this gi
02:15:19.238 --> 02:15:21.998
and they have basically a uniform hanging on
02:15:21.998 --> 02:15:24.838
the you know you'd put a uniform hanging on the wall
02:15:24.838 --> 02:15:27.618
basically like if you want to coach
02:15:27.618 --> 02:15:30.698
just put the on and come on and we'll let you we'll let
02:15:30.698 --> 02:15:34.078
you coach you know yeah but you're gonna do what they're doing yeah
02:15:34.078 --> 02:15:36.858
or here's my thing a lot
02:15:36.858 --> 02:15:39.698
of the the parents you know everybody's busy
02:15:39.698 --> 02:15:44.218
maybe they don't have time whatever it is a lot of them say just split 50 50
02:15:44.218 --> 02:15:49.518
i won't i won't judge say 50 of them work with their kids extra on their own
02:15:49.518 --> 02:15:52.738
to try and reimplement what they were working on their practices and development
02:15:52.738 --> 02:15:57.758
and then 50 of them don't okay on either side of that.
02:15:58.978 --> 02:16:06.318
Which one has which one would it be better for to coach their kid in game what
02:16:06.318 --> 02:16:12.158
you think the one that's working with the kid that's what my mind says too but
02:16:12.158 --> 02:16:13.438
if you're working with the kid,
02:16:14.238 --> 02:16:19.058
shouldn't have to coach him exactly that's my point right so if you're working
02:16:19.058 --> 02:16:22.938
with the kid wouldn't it be better for you to allow him to,
02:16:23.738 --> 02:16:26.998
to fail his way or him doing it wrong in
02:16:26.998 --> 02:16:30.558
the game and then like go over
02:16:30.558 --> 02:16:34.978
that when right yeah when you get in the car use it go over like hey look these
02:16:34.978 --> 02:16:39.878
scribbles did did you give 100% out of the day yes sir did you give 100% focus
02:16:39.878 --> 02:16:49.458
today yes sir are you sure are you sure because we work on the swing and you owning your swing,
02:16:50.798 --> 02:16:55.158
and what was the pitcher's name on the other team again you don't know okay
02:16:55.158 --> 02:17:01.618
well how come you let him control your swing how come the swing you work on you let him control it.
02:17:04.096 --> 02:17:07.476
See what you're saying yeah he he
02:17:07.476 --> 02:17:10.216
did get me on some pitches but i could have sat
02:17:10.216 --> 02:17:12.916
i i should have sat back a little or i should
02:17:12.916 --> 02:17:15.836
have owned my swing and only put my like my
02:17:15.836 --> 02:17:18.696
swing because look if if you don't know the kid's name
02:17:18.696 --> 02:17:21.616
on the mound even if you do and he's changing your swing he's getting
02:17:21.616 --> 02:17:26.096
you out all right he got you you gotta own your swing but if you're a parent
02:17:26.096 --> 02:17:33.676
that works on it with your kid like let them fail and then just like ask them
02:17:33.676 --> 02:17:37.776
those little things if you're a parent that don't work on it with the kid simple
02:17:37.776 --> 02:17:41.416
still ask them if they did those the requirements the
02:17:41.596 --> 02:17:49.616
simple things uh and don't offer how you felt they did ask them how they felt they did,
02:17:50.216 --> 02:17:53.856
you did what yeah don't convince them yeah and
02:17:53.856 --> 02:17:56.616
look if you have a kid
02:17:56.616 --> 02:17:59.756
on a team and you don't you don't
02:17:59.756 --> 02:18:04.496
have to like the coach the coach don't have to like your kid coaches like kids
02:18:04.496 --> 02:18:11.676
that work hard all right coach coach boulders said uh somebody told me i was
02:18:11.676 --> 02:18:16.116
playing favorites i told him yeah i play favorites the guys that throw 90 and
02:18:16.116 --> 02:18:18.356
strike people out and the guy that hit doubles,
02:18:19.316 --> 02:18:25.896
those are my favorites it was just generic but like look don't protect them
02:18:25.896 --> 02:18:30.036
because the toughness back in the day and i said this earlier about the jitsu
02:18:30.036 --> 02:18:31.036
i don't relate to fighting.
02:18:31.996 --> 02:18:34.736
Toughness back in the day you think people that that fought were
02:18:34.736 --> 02:18:37.876
tough or that football made you tough i don't
02:18:37.876 --> 02:18:40.796
know i don't think that's the case i think mental
02:18:40.796 --> 02:18:44.676
getting the mentally tough makes you tough uh
02:18:44.676 --> 02:18:48.716
being invested and working extra makes you
02:18:48.716 --> 02:18:51.656
competitive and and tough in in in
02:18:51.656 --> 02:18:54.436
the craft like we spend
02:18:54.436 --> 02:18:57.356
all this time doing all this extra like you're you're gonna give
02:18:57.356 --> 02:19:01.096
it everything you got when that competition starts you've you've
02:19:01.096 --> 02:19:04.616
invested time and this means something to you you
02:19:04.616 --> 02:19:08.236
know not doing extra and just showing up and doesn't help
02:19:08.236 --> 02:19:11.016
it can't make anybody tougher because fighting we're in
02:19:11.016 --> 02:19:14.156
a different day and age but if you're
02:19:14.156 --> 02:19:17.936
and if you're expecting football to make your kid tough on the baseball field
02:19:17.936 --> 02:19:22.176
then why you put a big football player in a box and he's jumping out the way
02:19:22.176 --> 02:19:28.056
to baseball you know what i'm saying yeah the the mental toughness would be
02:19:28.056 --> 02:19:33.236
now take that football player make sure he understands how to win a baseball game,
02:19:35.973 --> 02:19:40.193
your coach in football had made him mentally tough and competitive and invested
02:19:40.193 --> 02:19:44.373
and you make him try to win that game after he understands the rule set then
02:19:44.373 --> 02:19:45.333
he'll probably wear that pitch.
02:19:49.633 --> 02:19:52.413
Right i don't know i uh i get so caught
02:19:52.413 --> 02:19:55.073
up in this because like i said
02:19:55.073 --> 02:19:58.293
there's no blueprint it's not written down here steps one two three your
02:19:58.293 --> 02:20:01.013
steps if step one goes this way you
02:20:01.013 --> 02:20:04.873
go this way like every kid's different and that's what's
02:20:04.873 --> 02:20:07.733
cool about it though you know i don't think you'd enjoy it
02:20:07.733 --> 02:20:10.453
at all if there were a blueprint or it was a
02:20:10.453 --> 02:20:13.413
franchise and you're coaching by
02:20:13.413 --> 02:20:16.133
a from a binder you know what
02:20:16.133 --> 02:20:19.433
i mean i don't think you'd enjoy it and so
02:20:19.433 --> 02:20:22.393
we're blessed here though with we really do have a
02:20:22.393 --> 02:20:25.653
lot like we rarely have parent stuff
02:20:25.653 --> 02:20:28.313
like especially on my thinking that ain't
02:20:28.313 --> 02:20:31.113
happen but they may try
02:20:31.113 --> 02:20:33.873
some of the other younger guys or whatever or they
02:20:33.873 --> 02:20:37.253
be be new to the program and and they're not sure i always
02:20:37.253 --> 02:20:40.033
try to explain our coaches look the first thing is our job is to coach
02:20:40.033 --> 02:20:44.033
the parents too so that way they don't stop their kid uh
02:20:44.033 --> 02:20:46.813
from reaching his potential and getting his way when he gets to high
02:20:46.813 --> 02:20:50.013
school because there's ways to ask
02:20:50.013 --> 02:20:53.213
questions to your teacher instructor coach whatever
02:20:53.213 --> 02:20:56.093
there's ways to approach it yeah i.
02:20:56.093 --> 02:20:58.993
Really like what you're saying about uh like having your
02:20:58.993 --> 02:21:01.993
daughter go have the conversation with
02:21:01.993 --> 02:21:05.013
the coach or the the dance instructor or
02:21:05.013 --> 02:21:08.093
whoever it is i like that a lot because you
02:21:08.093 --> 02:21:11.893
know just thinking back to the things i see i think
02:21:11.893 --> 02:21:14.753
that that'll that'll play a huge benefit i i think
02:21:14.753 --> 02:21:17.953
a lot of people should listen to that and try it out and it's
02:21:17.953 --> 02:21:20.953
gonna it's gonna have a lot a lot of uh give back you
02:21:20.953 --> 02:21:24.773
know throughout of time aubrey made all
02:21:24.773 --> 02:21:27.753
the competition dances for du and miss
02:21:27.753 --> 02:21:31.873
nicole got the dance she bought the dance studio or took over dance studio whatever
02:21:31.873 --> 02:21:35.873
two years ago the first year she ran the competition just like whatever if you
02:21:35.873 --> 02:21:38.513
in the cat you can be part of the competition this year you have to make it
02:21:38.513 --> 02:21:46.453
yada yada aubrey makes it she was she made everyone but she was upset because she didn't make.
02:21:47.713 --> 02:21:50.613
She was trying to make the older group,
02:21:52.833 --> 02:21:57.853
but it would have put I don't know how all that shit works but basically she
02:21:57.853 --> 02:22:05.093
wanted to be with like the 15 I think it was 15, 16, the oldest group she's 12,
02:22:07.013 --> 02:22:12.953
Miss Nicole explained why she they kept her in that group for whatever reason,
02:22:13.633 --> 02:22:18.373
I don't know Something I don't even care Put it where you think She's got jobs
02:22:18.373 --> 02:22:23.193
She's got jobs To get better Aubrey goes to One of the dance classes And.
02:22:25.113 --> 02:22:31.933
That they Are required to take And she comes home upset And I'm like What's up How's dance What's up,
02:22:32.706 --> 02:22:38.686
girls didn't listen to this and that i think it's girls some of the girls that went they,
02:22:39.586 --> 02:22:43.286
her age last year moved up you know and now she's one of the older ones in the
02:22:43.286 --> 02:22:50.206
group but some of the younger kids came up and they weren't doing they're having
02:22:50.206 --> 02:22:54.566
to start back at stuff she already knows so that that bother and look i don't
02:22:54.566 --> 02:22:55.626
like wasting time like i said right.
02:22:56.826 --> 02:23:01.026
So i said so what's your what's your issue albury i already know all this stuff
02:23:01.026 --> 02:23:02.806
and we're not moving we're not learning fast enough in class.
02:23:03.666 --> 02:23:09.266
All good concerns, baby. All good concerns. But why are you upset about this?
02:23:09.746 --> 02:23:13.226
I got her to tell me why. Good reasons. Good reasons. I get it.
02:23:13.846 --> 02:23:15.346
Now, here's what we're going to do.
02:23:16.506 --> 02:23:21.326
This is day one. You're going to do this. Here's the agreement. Four weeks.
02:23:22.086 --> 02:23:25.606
After week four, you're going to come home and report back to me.
02:23:25.746 --> 02:23:30.686
I don't I want to hear anything about this from week two, three, and four.
02:23:31.006 --> 02:23:33.286
After week four, we're going to sit down and talk, okay?
02:23:33.926 --> 02:23:39.206
And then you're going to go talk to Miss Nicole when we meet after week four,
02:23:39.246 --> 02:23:40.806
and there's still an issue.
02:23:41.066 --> 02:23:44.926
I said, but let me tell you something. In the meantime, here's what you need
02:23:44.926 --> 02:23:47.086
to do. You need to be a leader.
02:23:47.706 --> 02:23:51.766
If you're one of the ones that already knows that stuff, you need to help and
02:23:51.766 --> 02:23:55.126
find ways to help and elevate the team and elevate the program.
02:23:56.446 --> 02:24:00.026
And and that's your challenge you do
02:24:00.026 --> 02:24:02.746
that these next two three four week two
02:24:02.746 --> 02:24:07.226
week two three and four we'll sit down and talk after i'll hear you out and
02:24:07.226 --> 02:24:11.486
then you're gonna set up to go talk to your dance with an owner damn whatever
02:24:11.486 --> 02:24:17.086
oh week four came around guess the class has been good because uh that's been
02:24:17.086 --> 02:24:22.706
done came and went and i ain't hear nothing but i challenged her as a like,
02:24:23.346 --> 02:24:25.026
here's something on top of...
02:24:27.179 --> 02:24:30.319
That opportunity that probably didn't you send
02:24:30.319 --> 02:24:32.959
her to dance to go to get better i that was an
02:24:32.959 --> 02:24:35.839
opportunity for her to get better in a different way because i
02:24:35.839 --> 02:24:41.639
want look i want her to be able to communicate with people and and help if she
02:24:41.639 --> 02:24:48.059
can i want her to be able to lead if she's worthy of being a leader i want her
02:24:48.059 --> 02:24:53.459
to be able to lead the right way by example and and being a kind of i I can't have her,
02:24:53.699 --> 02:24:59.399
my daughter, in that class acting pissy because other kids are falling behind.
02:24:59.939 --> 02:25:04.099
But I can't have her going, all right, everybody, two-minute water break,
02:25:04.219 --> 02:25:08.479
and her talking to that little girl and going, hey, look, come see,
02:25:08.579 --> 02:25:12.039
let's work on that whatever real quick. Yeah.
02:25:13.059 --> 02:25:16.819
Developing a leader. Yeah. It's a different way. I don't know, man.
02:25:17.079 --> 02:25:22.279
I think sometimes I'm crazy because there's only a small percentage that works
02:25:22.279 --> 02:25:26.499
like that. And maybe I've just gotten to this point because I've had the opportunity
02:25:26.499 --> 02:25:28.199
to develop so many young men.
02:25:30.219 --> 02:25:33.119
But the hard working part and if we're going to do something,
02:25:33.219 --> 02:25:34.199
we're going to do it right. Always.
02:25:34.999 --> 02:25:39.419
That was always in me. My grandpa preached that. Yeah. I don't know where that comes from, man.
02:25:39.919 --> 02:25:45.059
We have a lot of employees that come in and out of the market and you wouldn't
02:25:45.059 --> 02:25:48.319
believe this because you're not like this. But, you know, there's a lot of people
02:25:48.319 --> 02:25:52.059
that have the that's not my job mentality.
02:25:52.619 --> 02:25:54.079
They trying to unionize bourgeois?
02:25:55.939 --> 02:25:59.179
Well, I would, but I'm leaving in a minute.
02:25:59.479 --> 02:26:02.799
So, you know, I know you were never like that. I was never like that.
02:26:02.899 --> 02:26:08.679
But you wouldn't believe there's people that are like that, you know. And I don't know.
02:26:08.859 --> 02:26:12.899
Is it our job to change everyone that comes through like that?
02:26:13.039 --> 02:26:18.359
And it doesn't have to be that way. And if it's not, things will get pretty
02:26:18.359 --> 02:26:20.239
good, you know, if it's not like that.
02:26:22.570 --> 02:26:29.370
It comes down to just influences like I said and what you see you know hard
02:26:29.370 --> 02:26:36.670
work isn't for everybody either so look someone like that yeah you need to be a,
02:26:38.370 --> 02:26:40.810
what's those people that get to sit at home and it draws and answer the phone
02:26:40.810 --> 02:26:42.590
for Apple care or whatever,
02:26:44.310 --> 02:26:49.450
yeah there you go bro look that's the kind of job you need you're your own boss
02:26:49.450 --> 02:26:53.050
when that phone rings you gotta answer it or you could forward it I'm like,
02:26:53.150 --> 02:26:54.010
you can get fired from that one too.
02:26:54.910 --> 02:26:58.670
But I believe like as select, would it be in this type of program?
02:26:59.550 --> 02:27:04.750
We are working to build the ones that like, oh yeah, look, no problem.
02:27:06.950 --> 02:27:10.150
Can I do it first thing tomorrow? I have to go get my kids. Yeah.
02:27:10.650 --> 02:27:16.730
Hey, no problem. And the first they show up, clock in, get that done, roll on.
02:27:17.230 --> 02:27:19.210
Yeah. That's what we can hope for.
02:27:20.450 --> 02:27:24.310
So I think you're, I heard you say something earlier.
02:27:24.490 --> 02:27:30.270
You said that you're, you know, you felt like a need to pay back baseball. How'd you say that?
02:27:30.650 --> 02:27:33.930
You felt like- Repay my debt to baseball. You owe the debt to baseball.
02:27:34.110 --> 02:27:35.590
I want to repay my debt to baseball.
02:27:35.810 --> 02:27:41.610
But is that how you still feel about it? Because I feel like it's a little more than baseball.
02:27:41.850 --> 02:27:47.330
I feel like it's more or less about kind of like the next generation of kids.
02:27:47.330 --> 02:27:52.430
And I think you're using baseball, just like I use martial arts,
02:27:52.670 --> 02:27:58.130
you know, and I think there's, there's places that you can go learn how to play,
02:27:58.350 --> 02:28:03.070
you know, how to be a better baseball player where you won't learn those things,
02:28:03.090 --> 02:28:07.850
you know, and that's why that's, that's the art side of this,
02:28:08.030 --> 02:28:09.850
you know, what may, what may happen in this building.
02:28:10.830 --> 02:28:15.370
So it started out repaying my debt to baseball.
02:28:15.950 --> 02:28:19.650
I established those goals, every goal that I had set.
02:28:22.075 --> 02:28:27.175
Got players coming out of select with some tenure in the program.
02:28:27.555 --> 02:28:33.075
We want those guys to walk into high school, being able to compete for a spot on varsity.
02:28:33.215 --> 02:28:34.715
If that's a practice spot on
02:28:34.715 --> 02:28:41.475
varsity, if that's to compete on a varsity roster, okay, we've done that.
02:28:41.835 --> 02:28:48.055
We want guys, we want to send enough guys, enough select guys to a high school
02:28:48.055 --> 02:28:51.835
to help them compete for and win a state championship.
02:28:53.055 --> 02:28:59.035
South Terrible Vanderbilt Edie White Edie White only had I think two The year
02:28:59.035 --> 02:29:03.815
they won The state championship But their State MVP Or pitcher MVP Was Brennan
02:29:03.815 --> 02:29:08.675
Gobert Select guy Years in select Coach's older brother And we coached him For years.
02:29:10.575 --> 02:29:18.435
We've done that That's been accomplished The full potential thing And like We've
02:29:18.435 --> 02:29:21.575
had Kids from select Be class presidents,
02:29:22.995 --> 02:29:27.415
we have guys graduating on stage we have man i could put a list together of
02:29:27.415 --> 02:29:31.455
all the awards they get and stuff like that but like i'm not a big award guy
02:29:31.455 --> 02:29:34.815
once we win the trophy i'm like how we get better let's go on to the next one
02:29:34.815 --> 02:29:37.495
yeah let's get more challenging anyways uh,
02:29:39.015 --> 02:29:45.735
to open up the door to a high level tech like tool development and technique and mental,
02:29:46.275 --> 02:29:49.335
that'll help them not only in baseball but
02:29:49.335 --> 02:29:52.255
in life and if their goal is to
02:29:52.255 --> 02:29:55.175
to be a college or a pro baseball whatever their
02:29:55.175 --> 02:29:58.055
goal is like hard work is the foundation
02:29:58.055 --> 02:30:00.975
of that and then there's always
02:30:00.975 --> 02:30:05.735
going to be technical size and and intricate things that go along with that
02:30:05.735 --> 02:30:09.595
and you pair those things together and always look for ways to get better you
02:30:09.595 --> 02:30:16.895
can well we've done that guys have there's a foundation here that if you do
02:30:16.895 --> 02:30:19.495
these programs you work trust in it.
02:30:21.607 --> 02:30:25.267
Have a foundation where if you keep working throughout your high school career
02:30:25.267 --> 02:30:31.127
you have a good shot to go be a next level player we've had i think our numbers
02:30:31.127 --> 02:30:33.047
are at 70 something we're close,
02:30:34.047 --> 02:30:39.227
we're closing in on 80 80 guys that have played in select have went on to play in college,
02:30:39.987 --> 02:30:42.667
that's geez oh i wouldn't have
02:30:42.667 --> 02:30:46.227
guessed that uh not everybody
02:30:46.227 --> 02:30:49.867
not everybody panned out don't get me wrong yeah things
02:30:49.867 --> 02:30:54.007
that we had guys that got on a college
02:30:54.007 --> 02:31:00.167
roster that we had a guy that didn't even make it freaking a week of school
02:31:00.167 --> 02:31:05.947
i don't think but we've also gotten a when i we used to be away from our guys
02:31:05.947 --> 02:31:10.447
when they'll get to high school back to refocusing on the young guys whatever,
02:31:11.087 --> 02:31:13.907
the facility y'all can use whenever y'all want put in the work that
02:31:13.907 --> 02:31:16.927
are there they do they'll compete do good
02:31:16.927 --> 02:31:19.707
do it then it would start to fail and then you get a call hey
02:31:19.707 --> 02:31:22.387
can we get lessons this and that we're trying to
02:31:22.387 --> 02:31:25.987
set it up now to not not just
02:31:25.987 --> 02:31:30.967
the guys that stayed with us and done lessons but guys that have come to like
02:31:30.967 --> 02:31:36.767
programs here throughout like graduating so like I guess you could say are still
02:31:36.767 --> 02:31:43.047
developing instead of they go to high school we had a guy go to.
02:31:44.307 --> 02:31:49.767
Threw 83 off the mound 8th grade summer going to be going to 9th grade beginning
02:31:49.767 --> 02:31:52.267
of summer trial for the high school team throws 83 off the mound.
02:31:53.587 --> 02:31:57.067
We finish our summer he plays with me the next summer.
02:31:59.287 --> 02:32:08.147
I don't see him or hear from him really get to coach him till the 12th game
02:32:08.147 --> 02:32:10.927
of his senior year he got benched.
02:32:13.155 --> 02:32:16.755
Oh he called me we started hitting he
02:32:16.755 --> 02:32:22.735
earned a spot back but that same guy graduated throwing 81 with no arm injuries
02:32:22.735 --> 02:32:29.015
how like you go in high school throwing 83 keep working keep doing development
02:32:29.015 --> 02:32:36.575
stuff like you you gotta all you gotta do is get two miles an hour every every year,
02:32:37.215 --> 02:32:41.495
and there's certain times they'll gain like say he got into high school at a
02:32:41.495 --> 02:32:47.075
little older of an age like say he's a 15 year old in high school whatever and
02:32:47.075 --> 02:32:49.875
you graduate like 18 or 19 uh,
02:32:50.955 --> 02:32:55.495
there's that age where you get that like that man strength too yeah so you gotta
02:32:55.495 --> 02:33:01.015
anyways we're putting it together now with the oh we can continue to develop
02:33:01.015 --> 02:33:02.455
those guys through our programs,
02:33:03.115 --> 02:33:05.815
and not just a lesson-based thing more of like a
02:33:05.815 --> 02:33:08.595
group program with the the weights and stuff and all
02:33:08.595 --> 02:33:12.075
that because i'm tired of seeing guys whatever they
02:33:12.075 --> 02:33:15.375
showcase when they're freshmen and sophomores they're showcasing
02:33:15.375 --> 02:33:19.035
the same thing when they're juniors and seniors that makes no thing on sense
02:33:19.035 --> 02:33:25.015
to me right you know what i mean like it got comfortable yeah comfortable whatever
02:33:25.015 --> 02:33:32.075
you don't because the maybe the school you're at the guy you want to people want to point the finger,
02:33:32.775 --> 02:33:38.835
you're in control of you i don't care how lazy your high school team is you can put in work.
02:33:39.735 --> 02:33:42.615
All right you can you can put in work and continue to
02:33:42.615 --> 02:33:45.435
get better you got the the you got the blueprint on
02:33:45.435 --> 02:33:54.455
that oh what's the other goals the elite 32 which to quote travis david when
02:33:54.455 --> 02:34:01.215
eli was 12 coming back for his 13 you i told him the louisiana tigers invited
02:34:01.215 --> 02:34:03.855
him to go played the Elite World Series. They had made it that year at 12.
02:34:04.735 --> 02:34:10.215
I think we were like triple A. I told them they went. I kept tabs.
02:34:10.315 --> 02:34:12.235
How's he doing? Eli was doing good.
02:34:13.055 --> 02:34:17.895
Yada, yada. I told Travis when they got back from the Elite World Series that
02:34:17.895 --> 02:34:21.595
we were going to win the Elite World Series next year,
02:34:22.335 --> 02:34:27.015
because I was crazy enough to do whatever it took as far as we'll practice more.
02:34:27.135 --> 02:34:28.535
That year I did practice those guys.
02:34:28.975 --> 02:34:30.735
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, three hours.
02:34:31.535 --> 02:34:37.635
Which is way above what the contract states. Our contracts are like, let's see.
02:34:37.975 --> 02:34:40.135
We did over double.
02:34:40.875 --> 02:34:44.635
All right. But they also invested too. So I'm invested.
02:34:45.435 --> 02:34:52.615
I get obsessed with it. We won the Elite 32 the next year in Disney World.
02:34:53.435 --> 02:34:57.455
Aubrey was there. She ran on the field. Can't get me up. She was crying.
02:34:58.315 --> 02:35:01.295
That was awesome. I got great pictures of that. That was a goal.
02:35:01.295 --> 02:35:05.855
The major state championships That was goals We've lost We lost one Three to
02:35:05.855 --> 02:35:09.715
two Four to two major state championships That was heartbreaking We've We've not won some But.
02:35:11.461 --> 02:35:19.361
Win a super knit, which is like a 25 to 30 team, best of the best from like
02:35:19.361 --> 02:35:21.441
the nearest five states or region.
02:35:23.221 --> 02:35:26.961
That qualifies you to go to Elite 30. We won the governor's game in Louisiana.
02:35:27.361 --> 02:35:33.441
We finished second in Houston to the Dallas Tigers. They beat us in the championship.
02:35:33.781 --> 02:35:38.621
And the Midwest Elite beat us with a 13-year-old throwing 87 miles an hour from
02:35:38.621 --> 02:35:42.241
54 foot. but so all my goals were accomplished.
02:35:43.641 --> 02:35:48.741
But I was getting out kind of, you know, Kobe does a great job here.
02:35:49.541 --> 02:35:54.721
When I got the boot and I got to come back around a team and help assist coach
02:35:54.721 --> 02:35:58.401
it last year over here at Select, it just kind of fired me up again, bro.
02:35:59.241 --> 02:36:02.501
Cause I enjoy it. The kids, like we want to get better.
02:36:03.681 --> 02:36:07.721
They're invested in, in development. And they, we got a lot of young bros on
02:36:07.721 --> 02:36:09.201
that team now too. That's my 13 year team now.
02:36:09.281 --> 02:36:12.621
Great parents uh for the most part uh
02:36:12.621 --> 02:36:16.001
and then we
02:36:16.001 --> 02:36:18.661
get with Brock and now we're doing that side of it and now we
02:36:18.661 --> 02:36:21.641
got a plan in place our goal in place to
02:36:21.641 --> 02:36:29.741
like it's been great and been producing for years in that model and we're basically
02:36:29.741 --> 02:36:34.461
rebranding it and there's nobody that's going to be able to and within the next
02:36:34.461 --> 02:36:40.121
three years there's nobody that's going to be able to outclass us or outdevelop us.
02:36:42.510 --> 02:36:45.190
Things you can learn and get better at the best way
02:36:45.190 --> 02:36:48.190
you can learn and get better is paying attention to
02:36:48.190 --> 02:36:51.590
who you're coaching how you're coaching how they're
02:36:51.590 --> 02:36:55.290
responding how they I've since I
02:36:55.290 --> 02:36:58.110
felt like I've gotten to where I I am as a coach
02:36:58.110 --> 02:37:00.930
there's no kid out there that I can't coach
02:37:00.930 --> 02:37:04.230
or get through to no matter what their
02:37:04.230 --> 02:37:08.270
walk of life is no matter their story
02:37:08.270 --> 02:37:11.330
if they're spoiled or not I can
02:37:11.330 --> 02:37:14.630
I can get through to them to get all the
02:37:14.630 --> 02:37:21.210
stuff we talked about earlier wired into them oh and i would get it all the
02:37:21.210 --> 02:37:26.650
time man for select select select kids are just different bro isn't that funny
02:37:26.650 --> 02:37:31.990
it is and it's cool to hear though it's i get chills think about it but like
02:37:31.990 --> 02:37:34.010
it's cool to hear and like,
02:37:34.790 --> 02:37:38.190
i also think about when i first started and we used to do summer workouts in
02:37:38.190 --> 02:37:41.490
that high facility They probably threw me in jail for pushing those kids so hard.
02:37:42.490 --> 02:37:48.910
I think you're probably, you're all of those teams that when you travel,
02:37:49.110 --> 02:37:53.210
it doesn't matter how good the other team is, even if they win.
02:37:53.530 --> 02:37:56.370
I bet they leave thinking, I don't want to play that team again.
02:37:56.870 --> 02:37:59.950
You know, that's the team I would want to be.
02:38:00.070 --> 02:38:04.930
We get the well coach, like, man, respectful group. We get compliments on a lot of that stuff.
02:38:05.450 --> 02:38:15.310
We've had teams of rough years at times. We've had groups like that for some
02:38:15.310 --> 02:38:19.230
reason the whole team wouldn't have a hair on their armpit.
02:38:20.410 --> 02:38:25.490
They hadn't hit in adolescence until 14. When you got a ton of them hitting
02:38:25.490 --> 02:38:29.510
it at 12, most of them all hit it at 13.
02:38:30.830 --> 02:38:35.450
We've had teams like that that's always kind of like back against the wall type deal.
02:38:36.010 --> 02:38:42.410
And then you see them Like they sprout up Now they starting to mature And it's
02:38:42.410 --> 02:38:44.630
levelizing the playing field You know Wow.
02:38:47.355 --> 02:38:50.655
The best thing that I see is when, by the time they're 12,
02:38:51.815 --> 02:38:58.055
just the work ethic and things like that, they, that whole being able to use
02:38:58.055 --> 02:39:03.435
different things as motivation comes some, like, that'd be like the next phase of stuff.
02:39:04.995 --> 02:39:09.855
Before 12, it's like kids get, kids will get sad when they fail or something.
02:39:09.855 --> 02:39:16.735
Mm-hmm like there there's not many kids that at 11 or 10 when that they go if
02:39:16.735 --> 02:39:19.975
the kid strikes them out with men on second and third and they had ducks on
02:39:19.975 --> 02:39:21.015
the pond in the second inning,
02:39:22.115 --> 02:39:25.495
like they're more like look like
02:39:25.495 --> 02:39:28.975
looking like they're about to cry yeah oh instead of
02:39:28.975 --> 02:39:35.635
like that's not happening again yeah yeah all right like this is happening to
02:39:35.635 --> 02:39:42.095
them that's that's it's like this is happening to us yeah we're not in control
02:39:42.095 --> 02:39:46.255
and and a 12 yeah 13 14 year olds,
02:39:46.935 --> 02:39:51.655
they've seen enough they've they've they've seen enough unity and other sports
02:39:51.655 --> 02:39:56.535
everywhere else and to get it you know getting those those nine like through
02:39:56.535 --> 02:39:57.635
that little three-year span,
02:39:58.435 --> 02:40:02.535
i mean really like try your hardest and get the the hard work and all that stuff
02:40:02.535 --> 02:40:06.735
instilled in them And we got some kids that are the warmest of hearted kids.
02:40:07.435 --> 02:40:09.015
And we got a ton of good kids.
02:40:10.455 --> 02:40:11.295
Nice young men.
02:40:12.995 --> 02:40:17.735
I don't know how to get that competitive. I mean, look, when I was young and
02:40:17.735 --> 02:40:22.495
we had Trevor Daycare and we bobbing for apples, I was trying to be the freaking best at it.
02:40:23.835 --> 02:40:27.495
I cheated. I didn't cheat. Let me rephrase this.
02:40:28.275 --> 02:40:33.815
You still got the trophy. When I was young, my house of Sydney Cole had a birthday
02:40:33.815 --> 02:40:40.495
party off of Wobbin Avenue right there behind the shop right in the Jubilee
02:40:40.495 --> 02:40:41.495
right behind the shop. Okay.
02:40:42.115 --> 02:40:43.975
And they played pin the tail on the donkey.
02:40:44.695 --> 02:40:48.055
Right. They cover, you put a, I don't know what they put on your face,
02:40:48.075 --> 02:40:51.675
but they had the little mask thing that had like the rubber band in the corner.
02:40:52.075 --> 02:40:53.755
The lady put it on my face crooked.
02:40:54.355 --> 02:40:56.015
So at the corner of my eye, I could see.
02:40:57.815 --> 02:41:03.955
So i won pin the tail on a donkey won the prize is that cheating and was i supposed
02:41:03.955 --> 02:41:12.575
to tell her she messed up man i don't i mean because i look i got away from saying uh if you ain't,
02:41:13.495 --> 02:41:17.695
yeah i got away from saying that can't say that around a nine-year-old is that why they call you.
02:41:19.933 --> 02:41:29.433
Mule paw i bet you hadn't heard that that name in a while dude i is he the only one yeah because he,
02:41:29.993 --> 02:41:32.813
my mule i can hear dude let's
02:41:32.813 --> 02:41:37.273
go mule i can hear it dude that's awesome oh my grandma you know my grandma
02:41:37.273 --> 02:41:42.153
actually nicknamed me that because when i was born she said i had a flat nose
02:41:42.153 --> 02:41:46.513
and looked like mike tyson i was like 10 pounds six ounces and i looked like
02:41:46.513 --> 02:41:51.153
a little mike tyson and i said why you call me mule and Mike,
02:41:51.413 --> 02:41:53.393
he had like cats and stuff at his arm.
02:41:53.633 --> 02:41:56.233
And she's like, cause he was as strong as a mule.
02:41:58.033 --> 02:42:01.273
Oh, so that's what I hope. I hope you at least call you that now.
02:42:02.633 --> 02:42:05.753
So coach mule. Yeah. Coach mule sounds pretty cool. You know,
02:42:05.913 --> 02:42:09.493
when I introduced myself to kids, like last night we had the nine you in here.
02:42:09.593 --> 02:42:10.913
It's my first time being able around them.
02:42:11.033 --> 02:42:16.753
I got the other stuff going on in my team, but I made it a thing to be here
02:42:16.753 --> 02:42:23.313
when they came in and help. and just get a feel for them, be around them, see what's up.
02:42:25.057 --> 02:42:29.857
Introduce myself as, look, some of y'all don't know me. Some of y'all may.
02:42:29.997 --> 02:42:32.277
My name's Coach Lance. First name coach, last name Lance.
02:42:33.297 --> 02:42:38.637
That's just stuck. I just do that just to like, because you'll see the kids, you're like.
02:42:39.017 --> 02:42:42.097
They calculate. His name is Coach Lance.
02:42:42.837 --> 02:42:45.177
First name coach, last name Lance. Yeah.
02:42:46.097 --> 02:42:49.457
That's so good. All right. Why don't you, let's close it off.
02:42:49.637 --> 02:42:55.517
I want you to talk directly to your team or whatever. or pick an age group or
02:42:55.517 --> 02:43:00.597
talk to all of them and say what you got to say to them for when they listen
02:43:00.597 --> 02:43:02.257
to this, what's important to hear?
02:43:03.017 --> 02:43:07.457
Well, the first thing is like the same rules that I established with my daughter.
02:43:08.917 --> 02:43:12.617
We're going to have to put it on our shirts next year because for the longest
02:43:12.617 --> 02:43:17.317
time, and we still have it on our shirts, it says one of our shirts says,
02:43:17.537 --> 02:43:23.737
we do Jersey shirts because they order new ones every year, but the kids wear them like crazy.
02:43:24.537 --> 02:43:27.457
And instead of getting like jersey that you're gonna wear for
02:43:27.457 --> 02:43:30.257
a game and then pick it up and like they wear
02:43:30.257 --> 02:43:34.217
jersey shirts and when the next year comes around they they want to cut the
02:43:34.217 --> 02:43:39.977
sleeves off the whatever yeah uh they love them so like a true button down no
02:43:39.977 --> 02:43:46.597
the jersey shirt yeah we wear jersey shirts like uh like a a4 or like a like
02:43:46.597 --> 02:43:49.057
a night it's an a4 shirt like,
02:43:50.037 --> 02:43:53.017
yeah a dry fit yeah a good like a
02:43:53.017 --> 02:43:56.237
thick a4 makes a good thick dry fit that we wear so that way when they dive
02:43:56.237 --> 02:44:03.197
in they're easy to wash we get three different colors one of them has hard work
02:44:03.197 --> 02:44:10.157
speaks for itself on the back coach mathern taught me that i was already willing to work hard.
02:44:11.257 --> 02:44:14.537
I wasn't always working smart which we
02:44:14.537 --> 02:44:18.017
tried to instill in our guys too but i i was working hard so
02:44:18.017 --> 02:44:21.257
hard work speaks for itself another shirt
02:44:21.257 --> 02:44:25.057
says practice perfect practice perfect
02:44:25.057 --> 02:44:29.557
hustle hard all right uh i
02:44:29.557 --> 02:44:35.037
put that i i just got that from uh doyle baseball academy talked about like
02:44:35.037 --> 02:44:41.757
trying to practice perfect because practice in controlled environment practice
02:44:41.757 --> 02:44:46.637
you want to go through everything like perfect.
02:44:46.757 --> 02:44:50.497
You want to own your... When you're doing controlled drills and stuff,
02:44:50.677 --> 02:44:54.317
it's the perfect opportunity to do things perfect. Right, right. Right?
02:44:55.457 --> 02:45:00.617
And then you... Then it becomes automatic. Now, that doesn't mean you won't ever fail.
02:45:01.197 --> 02:45:05.717
And we're not telling... We're not telling guys to expect perfection in the
02:45:05.717 --> 02:45:12.517
games because we're teaching them how to handle adversity and how are you going to handle that...
02:45:14.146 --> 02:45:17.326
Practice making errors sometimes just to get used to them not catching the ball
02:45:17.326 --> 02:45:20.606
clean and still we need to throw it to first yeah because we need to develop
02:45:20.606 --> 02:45:26.206
the tools we can still get that guy out anyways since we uh the hustle hard
02:45:26.206 --> 02:45:28.866
thing pretty sure that came from my boy ace hood,
02:45:29.626 --> 02:45:37.386
you know you know it's song hustle hard whatever so practice perfect hustle hard and i want to put
02:45:37.806 --> 02:45:42.586
i don't know how to put it on the shirt because it's too much but the 100 effort
02:45:42.586 --> 02:45:45.426
whatever you're doing, wherever you're doing it,
02:45:46.106 --> 02:45:51.966
all right, if it means something to you, if it's something that can help you
02:45:51.966 --> 02:45:55.246
and people around you, if it's something that can develop you,
02:45:55.346 --> 02:45:57.986
if it's wherever your feet are,
02:45:58.746 --> 02:46:01.926
all right, if your feet are there and you're in that moment,
02:46:02.546 --> 02:46:08.546
100% effort, 100% focus and learn how to control how you respond.
02:46:09.046 --> 02:46:12.866
Because if you can control how you respond, then
02:46:12.866 --> 02:46:15.926
you'll be better at controlling your reactions if I
02:46:15.926 --> 02:46:19.146
can't control how I'm responding the game is gonna
02:46:19.146 --> 02:46:25.806
get is gonna the game itself is gonna beat you at times where if I'm up to bat
02:46:25.806 --> 02:46:31.226
and that umpire calls a 2-0 pitch off the plate a strike and I'm mad about that
02:46:31.226 --> 02:46:35.186
and I can't get over it and that next guy that guy comes back with another pitch
02:46:35.186 --> 02:46:37.946
that I should put the barrel on,
02:46:38.706 --> 02:46:41.326
And I overswing because I'm mad about that. Yeah.
02:46:42.266 --> 02:46:48.986
So like the, yeah, the pitch should strike you out or the pitcher should strike you out, not the game.
02:46:49.186 --> 02:46:52.606
Like don't let the game strike you out. It's that one ball coming.
02:46:52.726 --> 02:46:54.926
That's the only ball that should strike you out.
02:46:55.066 --> 02:46:58.226
Don't strike yourself out. Don't let the game...
02:47:00.264 --> 02:47:04.844
There's going to be adversity and stuff. And look, be excited to be the guy.
02:47:05.404 --> 02:47:11.444
Like, want the ball in that moment. I say, expect the ball every pitch.
02:47:13.124 --> 02:47:22.044
But from pitch one to the last inning, I don't want it to feel different.
02:47:23.524 --> 02:47:30.184
I don't want you to be in your head, oh, this is a big situation, this and that.
02:47:30.264 --> 02:47:33.784
Right like they're all opportunities that to
02:47:33.784 --> 02:47:36.764
create opportunity right it's all
02:47:36.764 --> 02:47:40.624
opportunities to compete to win a game if
02:47:40.624 --> 02:47:46.504
you made six plays at shortstop throughout the game all right and you gotta
02:47:46.504 --> 02:47:52.044
be honest with yourself on this the winning run or the time runs on third in
02:47:52.044 --> 02:47:57.444
the last inning with two outs and they hit you the ball did it ever cross your mind,
02:47:57.944 --> 02:48:00.644
not to miss it because there's a good the time runs on
02:48:00.644 --> 02:48:04.084
third because if it did we got to get that out of there because it's
02:48:04.084 --> 02:48:06.804
just two outs ground ball to me i'm
02:48:06.804 --> 02:48:09.704
going one it's the same ground ball just a job
02:48:09.704 --> 02:48:12.424
you can't let that situation on you you know
02:48:12.424 --> 02:48:15.524
what i'm saying and i yeah you have
02:48:15.524 --> 02:48:21.364
to control on how you respond a lot allows you to to play the game the right
02:48:21.364 --> 02:48:24.804
way to play it at a high level and be successful uh especially against teams
02:48:24.804 --> 02:48:28.124
that are loaded with the best kids from like two or three different states and
02:48:28.124 --> 02:48:33.544
like we'll compete with them beat them or or you know.
02:48:34.064 --> 02:48:40.064
Fight them to the death until they beat us you have to play a full game of baseball
02:48:40.064 --> 02:48:48.224
like that yeah well every at-bat is for the team it's it's the team's at-bat
02:48:48.224 --> 02:48:52.444
you're just in that spot right if you can't control how you respond and.
02:48:54.323 --> 02:48:59.383
Over there shaking the bell and saying that the batter can't hit then made you
02:48:59.383 --> 02:49:06.063
over swinging now you missed pitch two that hurts us as a group so you you you
02:49:06.063 --> 02:49:07.503
wind up getting the team to play it,
02:49:08.023 --> 02:49:13.443
and own on the game I guess you could say play the game and I guess own how they respond,
02:49:14.343 --> 02:49:18.963
it's so much funner but it's also it it knocks the percentages in your favor,
02:49:19.683 --> 02:49:23.363
to win because if you control how you respond it's
02:49:23.363 --> 02:49:26.203
always going to be easy to give the 100% effort and
02:49:26.203 --> 02:49:28.963
focus of course fatigue and stuff plays in fact
02:49:28.963 --> 02:49:31.923
but if you can't control how you respond and
02:49:31.923 --> 02:49:34.723
you're mad then you're not giving 100% focus because
02:49:34.723 --> 02:49:37.603
you you weren't focused enough to put a good swing on the pitch
02:49:37.603 --> 02:49:40.343
you will over swing at it you're folk
02:49:40.343 --> 02:49:44.883
you ought to you're not playing to win you're not setting yourself up for success
02:49:44.883 --> 02:49:51.283
oh and look there's gonna be days there's gonna be tournaments where your team's
02:49:51.283 --> 02:49:55.183
going to go out there if they're playing at a nice and high level against other
02:49:55.183 --> 02:49:58.883
really competitive and high level teams you're going to go out there.
02:50:00.663 --> 02:50:09.643
Do 99 of what we ask uh the right way and that team just beat us that day but
02:50:09.643 --> 02:50:18.163
i'm okay i'm okay with getting beat i'm okay with do i love it no does it bother me it says i am i don't,
02:50:18.843 --> 02:50:24.683
it don't bother me as much as you used to i guess but am i happy that we lost no do do i start going.
02:50:26.523 --> 02:50:32.343
Man we did everything right where could we have gotten better yeah i've been
02:50:32.343 --> 02:50:37.303
through that for years so i've gotten to a point where for the most part we
02:50:37.303 --> 02:50:40.483
do a nine nine we do 100 of it right They do 100% of it right.
02:50:41.423 --> 02:50:47.523
Sometimes that little flare just fell over our guys' heads. Sometimes the ball bounces their way.
02:50:47.783 --> 02:50:50.963
Sometimes some calls go in their favor.
02:50:51.563 --> 02:50:55.363
We'll never allow ourselves to be like the umpires cost us that.
02:50:55.463 --> 02:50:57.423
I don't let us say that. It's on us.
02:50:58.803 --> 02:51:05.343
But, man, I'll say this. Any guys that play at select, my team that select,
02:51:05.343 --> 02:51:08.143
listen to this. Pay attention to this.
02:51:09.123 --> 02:51:12.943
I'll repeat it, I said it earlier. Wherever you're at and whatever you're doing,
02:51:13.883 --> 02:51:18.623
100% effort, 100% focus, and control how you respond.
02:51:18.863 --> 02:51:23.903
And that little foundation right there will allow you to control your body naturally
02:51:23.903 --> 02:51:26.923
and mentally, be able to control your reactions much better.
02:51:28.743 --> 02:51:36.683
That coupled with hard work, all right, and not just the couple hours of practice
02:51:36.683 --> 02:51:38.923
that you get at high school every day.
02:51:39.663 --> 02:51:42.643
You have to do more if you want more. If you want more, do more.
02:51:45.132 --> 02:51:50.232
Be the one to stop yourself, but don't limit yourself.
02:51:50.792 --> 02:51:55.832
All right. If you want it more, go get it more. All right. So what if a guy
02:51:55.832 --> 02:51:57.252
next to you is naturally better?
02:51:57.852 --> 02:52:02.452
You can work for it. Baseball is a weird sport where, look, we've seen a lot
02:52:02.452 --> 02:52:06.752
of size in the major leagues now, but there ain't nobody stopping any small
02:52:06.752 --> 02:52:08.452
guy from throwing a hundred.
02:52:08.712 --> 02:52:13.312
No, anybody stopping any small guy from, from hitting the ball hard or play like a Jose Altuve.
02:52:13.912 --> 02:52:19.592
All right. So it's not a size limiting sport. If you got a goal, sell out for that goal.
02:52:19.932 --> 02:52:23.332
If it's college, if it's to win a high school state championship,
02:52:23.832 --> 02:52:27.812
if it's to be the best high school teammate, the best high school player you
02:52:27.812 --> 02:52:31.372
can be, whatever it is, you got to work for it.
02:52:31.712 --> 02:52:34.352
You got to work hard. You got to work smart.
02:52:34.952 --> 02:52:38.992
Both of those couple together can lead you in the right direction.
02:52:39.932 --> 02:52:45.592
Don't get comfortable being comfortable. All right. Because winning is unnatural.
02:52:46.552 --> 02:52:52.112
Succeeding is unnatural. You have to work for it. And sometimes you got to get uncomfortable.
02:52:52.752 --> 02:52:56.392
So get comfortable being uncomfortable.
02:52:57.192 --> 02:52:59.972
Don't let it change you. Say true to who you are.
02:53:00.512 --> 02:53:03.892
Other than that man I definitely love what I do with Select.
02:53:05.052 --> 02:53:10.452
Excited as hell with Express Kim and what I do on the business world now cause
02:53:10.452 --> 02:53:15.912
like I said I never ran Select as a business I did it to repay my debt I'm excited with where we're going.
02:53:17.252 --> 02:53:21.672
And I'm really excited to eat some of this bourgeois beef jerky I appreciate
02:53:21.672 --> 02:53:24.232
the conversation man I thank you cause I don't get to talk about development
02:53:24.232 --> 02:53:28.492
and stuff a whole lot and it was good to catch up yeah this is awesome man this
02:53:28.492 --> 02:53:33.292
is this is up my alley this is stuff i like to listen to so and it's it's stuff that.
02:53:34.852 --> 02:53:40.192
Should be talked about more is what you know i think is what people should listen
02:53:40.192 --> 02:53:44.672
to is isn't more or less stuff like this yes some of the stuff i was trying to get out,
02:53:45.272 --> 02:53:48.272
but my i've always been pretty good at what my brain's
02:53:48.272 --> 02:53:51.812
thinking is coming up my mouth yeah not me some of
02:53:51.812 --> 02:53:54.732
the stuff that i was talking about has only always
02:53:54.732 --> 02:53:57.972
been in my brain and hasn't come out
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if that makes sense yeah because i've never had nobody to sit down
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or or say what is that somebody that's going to
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listen to it yeah and try and get it out to where
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they can understand where i'm at with it and how it cycles through
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here it's been stuck in there and sometimes you hear yourself say something
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and you're like why why am i so worried about that and it makes it clear that
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you don't need to be and then sometimes you you'll say something and you realize
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like all right that's that's really that's really what i need to be thinking about you know yeah but.
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It's never bad i appreciate you again y'all are doing something right
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here and i'm excited to see what what comes with the
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new growth of the uh of the academy and all and i i
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i do every opportunity to do i be
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as good as everyone uh you know i'm not involved in baseball
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i don't know much about baseball but whenever
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i do see you guys post stuff on social and
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i see i see the success i do
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feel a little pride in it yeah i
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had the connection with you and i was why i love so i
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do like it and uh sock them back them partners
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yeah well we got a long we've
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got a long history that goes way back to some cool some very
02:55:08.695 --> 02:55:12.535
cool things that'd be another podcast yeah but uh
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yeah look forward do this one day and cook bro yes cook
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we can go i'll come up with bring what i want to
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cook and i'm bringing me you you smoke it yeah there
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you go that'd be great yeah look forward to seeing
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the next i'm gonna hold you to the next three years
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which i'm gonna hold hold you to what you said that's what i want to see it
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started out with me repaying my debt to baseball i'm super passionate now my
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passion is all about development the workout speed agility quickness side is
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not just a baseball side yeah that's open to all athletes whoever wants to get involved with it.
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And get involved on the home field advantage side South
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Louisiana Select will always be only baseball but the home field advantage and
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the workout side development side on that and it all will be open to every athlete
02:56:00.595 --> 02:56:05.935
in every sport swimming we got wrestlers coming whatever cool the recovery side
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y'all stay tuned for that we coming very cool alright Lance alright brother Coach Mew Coach Mew.
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