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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
This makes me happy.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Beyond excited to begin a new journey as a Minor League Hitting Instructor / Analyst with the @Cardinals . I am pumped about this new challenge and the opportunity to work with some of the greatest minds in the sport. #TimeToFly
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Daniel Nicolaisen
1 year
🏡📍| Oxford, MS
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Ole Miss Softball
1 year
Welcome to Oxford, Coach Nicolaisen! 🔴 🔵
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Alyssa DiCarlo working in a very small timing window.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
8 years
Montage of @16newt dropping tanks and being butter at 2B. Don't be a robot, play with emotion.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Alyssa DiCarlo
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Some Florida State feels 🔄
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
“Truly competitive people care obsessively about the process. Every detail of it. It’s an obsession over a process that may or may not lead to victory.” - Kobe Bryant
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Alyssa DiCarlo CH down & away vs Rise up & in
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
take it to the trees🌳🌳🌳
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Over the line into the bucket. Exit Velo. Launch Angle. Direction. Don’t have to say the fancy words to train for them 🙃
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
A “Barrel Turn” is when the barrel works around the hands and is then guided forward into the ball. The barrel is quickly rotated/pivoted/turned to full speed without a ton of forward movement. The goal is barrel acceleration PRIOR to entering the zone.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
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⚡️⚡️ | @OleMissSoftball
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
“I bet you can’t hit a homerun and then hit another homerun before the first one lands.... DARBY GO!” @darbypandolfo_
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
#blessed to announce my commitment to @wd_pitching for the rest of my life 💕
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Fastball (softball) and Change-up (baseball). Expect the fastball. Adjust to the change. If softball is thrown - hit that. If softball is faked - hit the baseball.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Outstanding message.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
play with sounds please #yerrrrr
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Details.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
If you swing down like this, we good.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
She throws gas 😐
@wd_pitching
Wendi Dorofee-Nicolaisen
5 years
Our wedding wouldn’t be complete without having a catch! 🥎 #softballlove @Coach_Danielnn
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Here is the most ridiculous thing we will ever do in practice. Points for homeruns.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
👀💣
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Second time the tees are out. Constrained with an external focus and deliberate purpose of what we are trying to do on the field.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Day in the life ☠️
@SHUSoftball
Seton Hall Softball
6 years
A 360 view of a typical @Coach_Danielnn hitting circuit 👨🏼‍💻
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
This is behind the softball 👍🏻
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Deep barrel turn. Behind and through.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Stride open. Stride closed. Kick. Float. Double Tap. Foot down early. Hit on one leg. Hinge. Coil. Scap load. Bat tip. Big leaguers are doing it all. It does not matter what you do just make it work.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
The intent to get the barrel behind, to and through the ball allows posture changes to happen. Let your barrel guide you! #HittersPitches
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 months
High School to SEC. It’s the biggest leap in level of competition. Moving the needle that far is hard. It’s a grind. Doubt. Fear. Ups and downs. Staying in the battle with your ears open when no one is watching … gets you ready for your moment. #SIPmade @ma_womack 🤙
@OleMissSoftball
Ole Miss Softball
7 months
The First of Many 💣
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Daniel Nicolaisen
10 months
Waiting Game | @OleMissSoftball ⚡️
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Thank you to @Blast_Sftball & @VanessaBlast_SB for putting on and capture the event. This is a 3-4 years of work compressed into a 30min presentation. I hope someone finds value in it.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Barrel working around the top hand/forearm #Supination
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Daniel Nicolaisen
4 years
my plans 2020
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Staying “on top” doesn’t get you flush/clean/square contact very often because you are cutting from the top part of the ball towards the bottom. Also, your barrel doesn’t get lined up with the ball until it is way out in front of you.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Watching the @AlabamaSB team's support of Demi Turner pinch running is everything team' should aspire to be. #GooseBumps @UACoachMurphy
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
After fall games came to an end last weekend we introduced individualized programs and scaled back to target some more specific technical focuses. A lot goes into them but they still remain fairly simple.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
This is pretty! @CoachLisle
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Yo @darbypandolfo_ hit one over the score board real quick 💁🏼‍♀️
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Hotel gym feels feat @Csalt19 😏🙌🏻
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5 years
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Well here is the path of an all-time great contact hitter...
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Daniel Nicolaisen
8 years
Be nice to your barrel and turn them. They don't like being pushed around. @alyssadicarlo2
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Here is why TRYING to catch the ball off the glove foot doesn’t make sense.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
3 years
Thank you for being a friend, a mentor to me and so many young women. Thank you for taking a chance on me in 2018. You were always and will always be all in. @CoachSmith2121
@SHUSoftball
Seton Hall Softball
3 years
Coach Smith is resigning today to spend more time with her family & pursue new opportunities. Details: #HALLin
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
gonna need some more whiteboards
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
“how to outfield throw” #wrongfoot
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
WE PLAY SOFTBALL TOMORROW!!
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Here are some fun little twists to drills that encourages an external focus of attention while keeping the feedback loop tight. Hit the line. Get the ball in the bucket. Working barrel direction (bucket), acceleration (Blast) and speed/EV (distance).
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Soup.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Don’t loose your barrel ✌🏻
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
I have found a direct correlation between my well-being and the amount of balls going over the fence. Today was decent 🙃
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Body Rotation from @Blast_Sftball provides a direct measure of the observed rotational sequencing pattern of the hitter by identifying the relative contributions of body and bat angular velocities.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Probably one of my favorite FT setups: 1️⃣ Plate uncomfortably close + heavy barrel loaded bat. 2️⃣ Plate back + short light bat Can you be efficient, anticipate and launch immediately? Then, stay stable hold your trigger and maintain posture?
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Preview: @Hailey_AA + 🔥
@Blast_Sftball
Blast Softball
5 years
Tomorrow we will be hosting a FREE educational Hitting Summit featuring a ⭐ -studded lineup of speakers. Don't miss @CoachCSalt share his knowledge on subjects such as loading patterns, timing, how to make swing changes, & more! Register here:
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
whoops... @Csalt19
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 months
Rebs After Dark 🌙
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
You don’t have to if you hit homeruns 🤷🏻‍♂️
@thecolinchrist
Colin Christiansen
6 years
Can’t run a 2.6 without having continuous smooth fluid feet!
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
A team I’ll talk about forever 💙
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
#TBT Hit one out... then hit another one out before the first one lands. #ThePinnacleOfMyExistence @darbypandolfo_
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
It is incredible how far ahead of the game @CoachMikeLotief has been for such a long time. Movement work. Kinetic chain principles. Barrel turns. Machine work. Challenging BP. Love hearing stories from other coaches who have crossed paths with him.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
down across vs behind and thru 👌🏻
@CoachJeffLeach
Jeff Leach
6 years
Bad hitter JD | Great hitter JD
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Daniel Nicolaisen
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🎨🧑‍🎨 | @JamieMacKay41
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
“I want to play for Florida”. So does 215lbs Hulkzilla from California who trains with 4 other Hulkzillas. Also, little Sarah who just rewatched last years College World Series for the 8th time this week and goes to bed in her uniform and gets up at 5am to get extra swings.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Here is a little recap on the @SHUSoftball 2019 returners: 9 out of 12 improved from the 2018 season. 5 improved by more than .300 OPS As a unit they improved by 25% in terms of OPS (which has the highest correlation to runs per game) ....alllrighty then
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Sis Bates going 0 to 100
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 months
South Dakota 🤝 Mississippi @LexieBrady30
@OleMissSoftball
Ole Miss Softball
6 months
LEXIE BRADY. BALL GAME.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Smoked.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
I’ve been incredibly lucky to coach some of my favorite people on the planet at @SHUSoftball and work for @CoachSmith2121 . Thanks for letting me put sensors on your bats and track pretty much your every move. #NoGas ⛽️
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Casey McCrackin HR. Smaller players dropping tanks 👍🏻
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Me: Random tee drill Twitter: 🥳🤪🎉 Me: Here is the foundational principles behind my thought process Twitter: ...................😐
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Little airport @16newt study 🧐
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Daniel Nicolaisen
8 years
If you load properly around your rear leg, you too can demolish baseballs/softballs from one leg #YouDontNeedTwo @teacherman1986
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Taylor Van Zee. Resisting the move out.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
George Springer destroying softballs.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Slappers (and hitters) doing a medicine ball toss with an adjustability element to promote dynamic changes in posture (something we have struggled with) and timing of rotation (accel/deccel). #DammitMiso 😂 @marisa_pla
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
It’s hard to get someone out that can cover pitches like this AND pitches soft and away. Good direction, instincts and a dugout that’ll pick you out in 3 batters.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
game week.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
I am incredibly excited to be presenting at SlugFest with THE @VanessaBlast_SB on practical application of @Blast_Sftball . Thanks to @DLawson_Yankees for the opportunity.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Alabama cages have launch angle guides! Everything above the yellow lines! #YaySoftball @UACoachMurphy
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
cheat codes
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Daniel Nicolaisen
5 years
Today’s forecast: sunny with a slight breeze.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
8 years
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Last year everything was routine. This year...you don’t want to hit it out here. #ComingForYa #SavageSZN #Graveyard #WhereExtraBaseHitDie
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 months
Good content @LexieBrady30
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Ole Miss Softball
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Daniel Nicolaisen
7 years
Tiff Progress
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Prepping
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Tony Baldwin getting it started for me 3 years ago.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Don't tell me spreadsheets are not cool.
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Shoutout to all the @SHUSoftball hitters for absolutely crushing the first 3 days of hitting! By far my favorite part of the sessions was how our “Hugo” ( @16newt ) drill developed from imitation to exploration. “You can’t do anything you normally do”. #SorryForTheBlisties
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
There is always a trade-off. Do you want to be better now and mediocre later or mediocre (potentially horrible) now and better later? TAKE DONKEY HACKS!
@MyTPI
TPI
6 years
Speed is a skill. #AthleteFirst
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
Developing hitters is more than just adding and removing pieces of a puzzle. Depth Direction Swing Commitment A Whole Bunch Of Other Awesomeness
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Daniel Nicolaisen
6 years
I found a celebrity! - @EphsSBCoach
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