Teaching Principles

Condition Players Physically

•  Speed, Power, Agility, Reaction & Quickness

Players are tested twice a year - January & June. There are 5 different areas of athleticism that are used to test each athlete. Players are then instructed in ways to improve the overall athletic ability to become better athletes. The players will be trained in the same Tom Shaw performance program as used by Alex Rodriguez, Johnny Damon, and A.J. Peirzynski.

Train Players Bio-Mechanically

·        Bio-Mechanical efficiency 

Players will also be filmed twice a year by high speed video cameras from Bio-Kinetics Research & Development.  After the video has been captured we will then load it on to our computers for analysis and comparison with some of the best professional in the game.    

 Train Players Mentally & Emotionally

·        Mental Toughness

Baseball has often been called a chess match at 90 miles per hour.  More often than not the other team is not as responsible for beating your team as the game of baseball itself.  This game cannot only beat you but can beat you up mentally.  Baseball is an emotional game full of failures.  As the old saying goes if you only fail seven out of ten times you can be a millionaire playing it.  The Highlander program will go to great lengths to make sure that each and ever player has a greater understanding of the game and how it should be played as well as how to deal with its emotional highs and lows.