Elite Performance Training
Professional instructors, technology and personalized training for elite players.
New York Empire Baseball’s Senior and Master Instructors include some of the most highly trained and accredited professionals in the entire baseball industry. Our certifications include Driveline Baseball, K-Motion, On Base University, the National Pitching Association, and USA Baseball, and we’re also consultants to NYU Langone’s Sports Performance Center.
Advanced baseball instruction begins with an understanding of each individual player’s movement & mechanics and progresses to athletic & mechanical instruction. The focus is on long-term athletic development, and includes the use world class tools and technologies to build & measure individual player programs and progress.
Functional Strength, Mobility, and Recovery
Foundational fundamentals to ensure long-term success.
The best mechanics in the world won’t be effective for a player who isn’t built to execute them. Our coaches help players with age-appropriate building blocks for the foundation of their athletic performance and injury prevention. Our staff includes Doctors of Physical Therapy and Movement Specialists to ensure that every player is receiving the unique attention that they need to develop and perform.
Biomechanics
A real understanding of the laws of movement. For all ages.
We study and understand movement… and most importantly we’ve created inspiring methods for teaching efficient and effective movement to players of all ages and skill levels.
We’ve spent a decade developing methods of teaching body movement – primarily using external cues in drills that drive real results – not rhetorical phrases shouted in the hopes of generating accidentally positive outcomes.
Mental and Emotional
New York Empire Baseball has a specific curriculum and instructors to train the mental and emotional aspects of successful performance.
We address fear. Both physical fear of the baseball, and psychological fear of failure and concerns around being judged.
Our instructors teach players to truly play, and to understand that they can’t control the outcomes - that they can only control themselves and their own level of preparation and effort. They are taught the correlation between hard work and success, and they understand that sometimes bad luck will bring bad outcomes, but that they shouldn’t rely on good luck for good outcomes.
Players are taught to have no doubt, and leave no doubt. They’re taught to understand that confidence comes from preparation, and the difference between confidence and cockiness is that confidence is knowing that you’re prepared and cockiness is merely saying that you’re prepared. And they understand that our coaches are their guides, not their judges.
Players are also taught that winning the game is best accomplished by winning every moment - that their effort, energy, passion and performance in each and every moment will affect the scoreboard in the end. They are taught that winning every moment means that on each and every pitch - and in between - each and every player and coach is doing everything they can to succeed - and only in that moment. Winning every moment means that between every pitch, every player, on the bench and on the field, needs to be thinking about what they will do if the ball comes their way and also if it doesn’t. And if they’re on the bench, thinking the same, so that they are ready when they are out there.
Players understand what it means to be prepared. Always.
And they understand that our entire coaching staff is here to guide them to play. Without any doubt. And to Win. Every. Moment.
The Science & Technology
Methods & models that are rooted in reality, not anecdotes.
New York Empire Baseball instruction is based on the science of body and ball movement – to minimize the likelihood of injury while maximizing the results of every unique individual player.
New York Empire Baseball Instructors are trained in the use of world-leading technologies including
K-Motion to measure & understand body movement
Blast Motion and Diamond Kinetics Swing & Pitch Tracker to measure & understand swing and pitched ball movement
Motus Global to measure & understand arm action and stress to minimize injury and maximize performance
HitTrax to measure & understand ball flight and results
High speed video analysis to breakdown the details of movement that can’t be seen with the naked eye – and to aid in a player’s own proprioception and development.
We also use On Base University’s hitting and pitching strength and mobility screens to understand every player’s movement capabilities and tailor their training appropriately.