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Catching is becoming an increasingly important position in baseball, and it can be challenging to develop the skills and knowledge required to coach catchers effectively. Greg Biddle, a little league coach from San Mateo, California, faced these challenges and struggled to find reliable resources...
If you're a catcher looking to improve your game, you've come to the right place.
If you don’t know who I am, my name is Anj Bourgeois and I’m the founder of Catching Made Simple. I transitioned from infield to catcher my Junior year of college, having never caught before, and now...
Knowing how to receive well as a catcher will be the difference in being a starter or not.
Catching is a demanding position that requires a unique set of skills. Among those skills, receiving is perhaps the most critical. A great catcher can turn borderline pitches into strikes by framing them...
Are you looking for the best kettlebell exercises to help you dominate on the field? This article will show you the top 5 kettlebell exercises for catchers.
Catching is a physically demanding position that requires strength, agility, and endurance. As a catcher, you need to be able to generate...
Henry was looking for a way to help his little league catcher, Nathan, get better, but was limited by the catching coach options available to him. Then his wife found Coach Bougie online while looking for catching programs to help their son Nathan improve. They were looking for a program that...
When Mark Banks signed his son Bubba up for Coach Bougie's program, he was just hoping to give his son a little more experience on the field. But what he got was so much more than that.
Bubba had just started playing baseball and was eager to learn. With Coach Bougie's guidance, he quickly...
If you're a high school catcher looking for ways to improve your strength, endurance, and throwing power, then consider incorporating medicine ball workouts into your training routine. Medicine balls are a simple and effective tool for building core strength, improving coordination, and...
Are you a catcher looking to improve your skills? Or perhaps a coach looking to teach your catchers how to get better? Look no further than the Catching Made Simple Method.
In episode four of the Catching Made Simple Podcast, we breaks down the five levels of learning that make up the CMS Method....
What’s the most important skill for catchers?
It’s likely not what you think it is…
When we look at the number of times things happen in a game, we’ll know what is really most important.
In the third episode of the Catching Made Simple Podcast, we’re diving into...
Baseball is a complex and strategic game that relies on every position to contribute to the success of the team. However, one position stands out in terms of overall impact: the catcher.
Despite being the most important position on the field, catchers are often overlooked, under-coached, and...
If you can't block, you won't play as a catcher.
Blocking is one of the most important skills you can have. If your catcher isn't blocking consistently, you'll give up extra bases and lose more games.
If you don’t know who I am, my name is Anj Bourgeois and I’m the founder of Catching...
The Catching Made Simple Podcast is a new resource for catchers, parents of catchers, and coaches of catchers who want to improve their skills and understanding of the position.
In this first episode, founder Anj Bourgeois shares his personal story of converting to a catcher in college and how it...