MAPS Academy

14/12/2021

Big numbers today for this group of hard working men!

13/11/2021

One step closer!

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What an amazing week here in Japan!! Coming into this competition we knew that this was an extremely tough field to compete against so we set our own personal goals of what we wanted to accomplish this week. With 3 new personal best scores and breaking 200 internationally we can leave this competition having accomplished all of our goals ☺️ Thank you so much to our team for preparing us and all their support! Time for the gala, some rest, and then back to work 🇺🇸

Thank you Japan, we love you!🤍

09/10/2021

One step closer! Congrats!!!

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Bringing back the bronze! 🥉 🥉 So proud of the two skates we put out here in a Finland, this was a huge step forward for us. Thank you to our coaches, our trainers, our families, US Figure Skating staff, the spectators, teammates, and all of our training mates back home for their endless support! Ready to get back home and keeping work hard, next stop Skate Canada!☺️Thank you Finland, you have a special place in our hearts!

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07/06/2021

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07/06/2021

Let’s go!!!

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Next Challenge👊
Thank you for the opportunity🙏
I’m super ready to put on a great show!!

And I have a favor to all of my friends.
Please help me to choose a great walkout song fo me🙏
Please comment below👇
Thank you and Love you all!!







#주짓수 #주짓수하는남자 #주짓떼로

05/05/2021

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🌀Training Tip Tuesday goes to

“Can training without sports shoes on benefit your feet muscles? 🙌🏼Absolutely!

✅Science has proven that it is far from normal for humans to be wearing closed or covered shoes all day long.

👉🏽Shoes support our feet, but they also restrict movement. They decrease flexibility, and inhibit our muscles from performing as they should.”- Emily Splichal

29/04/2021

23/04/2021

Congrats to on hit for hit and HR for the

Keep swinging big dog!

19/03/2021

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🧠 Education 🧠

LA Dodgers minor leaguer has made some big changes since starting with ZL a few weeks ago.

Zack is a converted catcher coming back from elbow surgery and has been chasing mound velocity by following a training program that had him throwing heavy weighted balls, doing max effort pulldowns, and generally trying to just throw harder.

What Zack needed was almost the opposite. In most cases, big, strong athletes like Zack need to do LESS to create more! Zack was no exception and he needed to optimize his movement efficiency in order to find easy velocity.

To do this, we looked at his mechanics from his “natural”position of a catcher. In those throws, Zack is much more connected to the ground, rotates more efficiently, decelerates better, and generally puts himself in a better position to throw. We combined that with some throws with very light balls to allow him to feel LOOSE, RELAXED, and SMOOTH with his arm into ball release.

The results so far have been great as the velo AND command have seen significant jumps in a short amount of time.

Final point: at ZL, we aren’t against weighted balls, pulldowns, or max effort throwing. In fact, many of our athletes have these training protocols in their throwing program. But it has to be the right type of athlete and it has to transfer to the MOUND.

As always the credit goes to the athlete for buying in and making these changes. We’re looking forward to continued progress and a big season from a healthy

Questions about this post or our programming? DM us or check out our website (link in bio)!

13/03/2021

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New Braves Top 5 prospects!
1. Cristian Pache
2. Ian Anderson
3. Drew Waters
4. Shea Langeliers
5. Braden Shewmake