One of my biggest coaching beliefs:
Movement comes first.
If you can’t organise your body to throw the stump straight up and high, why would it suddenly happen when you add a cricket ball?
A ball doesn’t fix movement problems.
It usually exposes them.
In fact, hitting a ball is harder.
Now you have to:
• Perceive
• Decide
• Move
• Execute
All in a fraction of a second.
That’s why I like this drill.
The outcome is simple:
👉 Throw the stump straight up and high.
What do you notice about the movements that produces a successful throw?
Take a second to think about it before reading on.
If you can do that, there’s a good chance a lot of important processes are working together:
• Balance
• Force transfer
• Sequencing
• Direction
If you can’t, your body is telling you something.
The goal isn’t to copy a position.
The goal is to find a movement that creates the outcome.
Give yourself an objective.
Search for success.
Then understand the feel.
Movement first.
Always.
Power leaves clues.
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Real talk: “Watch the ball” sounds like great advice…
but the brain doesn’t respond to it.
Nobody actually tracks the ball by default — the brain is wired to scan.
So the answer isn’t “try harder.”
The answer is → give your eyes a job.
👁 “Where’s the ball right now?”
👁 “Where’s the seam?”
Same message.
Different language.
Completely different outcome.
Players don’t need more noise — they need better information.
That’s the separator.
🎯 Save this if you’re serious about improving.
🔁 Share it with a mate who still “tries to watch it harder.”
Chaos exposes movement.
Drive. Pull. Drive. Pull.
Rapid feed. No reset.
This drill forces quick shifts of:
• Weight transfer
• Body control
• Bat control
• Movement organisation
When pressure speeds up,
your movement either holds together…
or breaks down.
Really good for top movers who rely on rhythm, flow and continuous movement.
A lot of players look organised with time.
Far fewer stay organised in chaos.
And that’s what higher levels bring.
Less time.
More pressure.
More chaos.
Train for the future today.
18/05/2026
Most coaching searches for perfect positions.
But the game doesn’t care what batting looks like.
It cares whether movement works under pressure.
Different players:
• organise movement differently
• load differently
• balance differently
• trigger differently
• solve problems differently
Yet somehow, we still coach batting as if there’s only one correct model.
Head outside feet?
Still elite.
Knee outside toes?
Still elite.
Hands not under head?
Still elite.
Feet crossed?
Still elite.
The best players in the world don’t all move the same.
But they all organise movement well enough to:
• perceive
• decide
• adapt
• execute under pressure.
That’s the real common denominator.
The goal isn’t perfect positions.
It’s organised movement under pressure.
Look forward.
Push back.
That’s the rhythm of a good pull shot.
Sit back — and it breaks down.
Save this for short-ball work.
15/05/2026
Most players don’t fail because they don’t work hard enough.
They fail because they’ve been taught a system that doesn’t match how they naturally move, organise, and perform under pressure.
Some players need rhythm.
Some need stability.
Some need movement before release.
Others need clarity and simplicity.
Yet so many players are coached in exactly the same way.
The result?
– timing disappears
– batting feels robotic
– confidence drops
– technical changes never stick
– players start thinking more and reacting less
The best players in the world don’t all move the same.
And they never did.
The JGCC Body Movement Assessment is designed to help players better understand:
– movement tendencies
– performance patterns
– pressure responses
– training fit
– and how they naturally organise movement
This isn’t about putting players in boxes.
It’s about helping players train in a way that actually transfers to performance.
The assessment is now live on the website.
Request information via the website to receive the brochure and full assessment details.
12/05/2026
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11/05/2026
What’s your cricket logic? 🏏
Tag a mate and add theirs 👇
Most players try to fix what they can see.
The bat path.
The contact point.
The miss-hit.
The obvious outcome.
But movement problems rarely start there.
This player is around 1 bucket apart:
🏏 Machine
🧠 Deep coaching intervention
🏏 Back onto the machine
The change didn’t happen because we chased the outcome.
It happened because we identified where the movement chain first broke.
Once the source changed, the body started organising movement differently.
That’s why surface-level coaching often struggles to translate into action under pressure.
Players aren’t always struggling because they “can’t do” something.
Often, the body is just solving the movement problem inefficiently.
The key is understanding:
👉 where the chain broke
👉 what the body is trying to organise
👉 and which link matters most
Under pressure, the brain runs the pattern it trusts most.
Fix the source properly…
and the outcome can change faster than people think.
👀 Can you spot where the chain broke first?
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