Robin Lund on player assessments, developing motor learning plans, and blending the art and science of coaching.

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Bio Born in Northern Alberta, Canada in an area where there is very little baseball, his parents let him move to Lewiston, ID when he was in the 9th grade and live with a host family and play high school baseball. He then played at Spokane Falls Community College and Whitworth University After playing he coached at Spokane Falls CC for 4 years working with hitters and outfielders and also serving as the S&C coach. During that time, he got His Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Eastern Washington University. Robin then got out of coaching and pursued a PhD and While working on it, he was Ed Cheff’s S&C coach at Lewis Clark State College. Robin completed his degree in 2002 and landed a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Kinesiology in cedar falls Iowa. After 18 years, he got back into coaching and became the volunteer assistant for the University of Northern Iowa softball team in the Fall of 2018 and then in January of 2019 he took a job at the university of Iowa, where he started as the hitting coach and then became the pitching coach in the Fall of 2020. On the show, we go over player assessments, developing motor learning plans, and blending the art and science of coaching. Time stamps 3:50 - Player Assessments 16:00- Blending art and science of coaching 18:30- Motor Learning Plans for pitchers 25:27- Motor learning plans for hitters 33:30- Using in game data for pitchers 37:00- Using in game data for hitters 43:30- Gameplanning 45:00- Pre-pitch routines 46:45- Post Game reports 50:30- Simplifying data 55:30- Quick Hitters Resources Motus Sleeve Trent Otis Google sheets/Pivot tables Functional Movement Screen Frans Bosch Contact @Lunderton [email protected]

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