What Is Your Move Dial? Your Move Dial helps you find where you’re naturally the most balanced on your feet. It’s ranked from 1 to 4. #1 = your strongest, most coordinated balance point. #4 = your weakest balance point. 👽 If you’re Terrestrial, your #1 will be in either your left heel or right heel. 🧜🏼‍♀️ If you’re Aerial, your #1 will be in either your left forefoot or right forefoot. Why does this matter? Your #1 balance point gives you the best place to organize your movement. In hitting, you want to feel that connection to the ground during your setup and maintain it through your stride. That helps you stay balanced, coordinated, and athletic instead of constantly searching for your balance during the swing. It’s another way Motor Preferences simplify movement. Instead of guessing where your weight should be, you learn where your body naturally organizes best.

Aerials vs. Terrestrials One isn’t better than the other. They’re just different ways the body naturally creates movement. 🧜🏼‍♀️ Aerials tend to organize movement from the top down. They often feel more comfortable being lighter, quicker, and creating force through movement & upper body. 👽 Terrestrials tend to organize movement from the ground up. They usually feel more stable, grounded, and create force by pushing into the ground first and using their hips. Neither changes the principles of hitting. Every hitter still needs: - Create space - Move with direction - Leverage the ground - Transfer energy into the ball Motor Preferences simply help us understand how your brain and body naturally organize those movements. When you stop fighting your natural organization, your body becomes more coordinated, more efficient, and your brain can spend less time thinking about mechanics and more time focusing on timing, vision, and pitch recognition.

What Are Motor Preferences? Motor Preferences are simply the way your brain and nervous system naturally organize movement. Every hitter creates balance, coordination, and stability a little differently. That doesn't change the principles of a good swing. You still need to: - Create space. - Move with direction. - Leverage the ground. - Transfer energy efficiently. Those principles don't change. What can change is how your body organizes those movements. When your swing matches your natural motor preferences, your brain doesn't have to fight the movement. Everything feels more coordinated. More balanced. More repeatable. That frees up mental bandwidth. Instead of thinking about your swing every pitch, your brain can focus on what actually matters: - Timing. - Seeing the ball. - Pitch recognition. - Competing. Motor Preferences aren't about replacing good hitting principles. They're about helping each hitter organize those principles in the way their body naturally works best.

Big congratulations to @Alex Conover on being drafted by the San Diego Padres! Really proud of all the work you’ve put in to earn this opportunity. It’s been fun watching your growth over the years, and this is a well-deserved moment. Looking forward to watching you compete at the next level.

Why I Went MIA For A Few Weeks I’ve been a little quiet in here lately. Not because I’ve been checked out. I’ve been learning. For the last few weeks, I’ve gone pretty deep into Motor Preferences and how they apply to hitting. The basic idea is simple: Not every hitter is built to organize movement the same way. Some create stability differently. Some access force differently. Some movements feel natural to one hitter and completely fight another. And the more I learned, the more I realized there was a hole in my own coaching. A lot of hitting instruction starts with: “This is what good hitters do.” Then we try to make every hitter fit that model. Maybe the better question is: How does THIS hitter naturally organize movement? I’ve spent the last few weeks studying it, testing it in lessons and figuring out where it fits with what I already teach. I’m still learning. But I’ve seen enough to know it’s going to change how I evaluate hitters and coach the individual in front of me. Same game. Same task. Different bodies. Different solutions. I’ll start sharing more of what I’ve learned in here. Thank you all for your patience. Lane