Hello and welcome back to my blog post! The genius hour has been a great opportunity for improvement and I am glad I took advantage of it. The project flew by and so did the semester. I kind of lost track of time and am glad the project is over with. I am glad the project is over because playing high school ball and trying to do all of the exercises is very difficult. Somehow, I managed to get them done every day despite all of the school work, school ball, and downright laziness.
Throughout the course of the project, I dealt with these obstacles every day. Some days, I just did not want to do the exercises. Yes, there were a few days that I missed but besides that, I stayed up to par. I believe at the beginning of the project, I set my expectations way too high. I thought that I could do agility and arm strength exercises when in reality, I was only able to get half of that done. Even though I did not do as much as I would have liked, I still reached my goal which was to increase my throwing velocity as much as possible. What I got to will not be sent out until I present the project, but a video will be published on my site after the presentations are done so the people in other classes and in future classes can see my results. I understand that I have been short on videos this entire project but I do have videos and am just keeping them for the presentation so my presentation isn’t just a duplicate of my blog posts and website. I am excited to present and I believe that it will be fairly easy because I know a lot about baseball and am passionate about it.
0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to my blog post! Our team beat Sun Valley in the first round of the playoffs! They were the number four seed and we managed to beat them! Our conference is one of the best in the state so we struggled to get an amazing spot. We moved on to play West Forsyth away which was one of the biggest games for Davie in a long time. Unfortunately, we got hammered, losing 10-0. They are a good team and have ten graduation seniors! Since they are losing a lot, they may not be as dominant next year.
Now that the high school baseball season is over, I can finally get back to working on my own time. I have enjoyed previous breaks and I was starting to get burned out from baseball due to the amount of time I was putting into the sport, and receiving very little in return. Regarding the exercises, I have decided to increase the amount that I do from one time a day to three times a day. I felt that I was significantly improving my speed and felt that I could do more in one day. Taking a rest is very important for one's arm and now that the high school baseball season is over, I don't need to rest my arm as much. I have a video that I will be sharing with everyone during my presentation. I have also been keeping some videos to myself because if I were to post them on my site, then everybody would see them and the videos would not be original. Although I only have one week left of the genius hour project, I believe that I will continue to do these exercises throughout the summer and onto the next school year. Hello and welcome back to my blog post! The varsity baseball team successfully made the state playoffs! There was a lot of confusion as if we were going to make the state playoffs or not and we did! Currently, we are a 28 seed, which is definitely not great but our conference is one of if not the best conference in the state. Being a #28 seed means we will have to play the #6 seed, which is currently Myers Park. A big convention is held over the weekend in which multiple organizations will discuss and debate what teams should play who. This means that our seed could change at any time, and our opponents.
Once again, I did not play and I am falling out of love with the game. I hope summer ball pulls me back into it because baseball has determined my entire life. I have continued to do my exercises for this project and have been seeing good improvement in my abilities. I signed up for legion ball so I will be getting plenty of reps over the summer at different positions. I will see lots of competition and am excited. Hopefully, I get into the first round of state playoffs but it is unlikely. I will still obviously be ready and competing for the spot. Next year, I have to grind for the starting spot because there is a lot of competition at every spot, which is not good. As the genius hour is coming to an end, I will probably lose my motivation to do the exercises and stuff, especially with how much I will be playing over the summer. Hello and welcome back to my blog post! The varsity baseball team played East Forsyth last night and put a great fight up against them but we came up short in the last inning, losing 11-10. East Forysth is an extremely good team with plenty of D1 commits who put on a show, but we played small ball and poked the ball everywhere. East Forsyth was top five in the state at the start of the year and we were predicted to finish seventh out of eight in our conference.
We still made the state playoffs because we finished fourth in our conference and only the top four teams make the state playoffs. We figure out who we are going to play this next Monday, May 9th. We are most likely going to get an extremely good team because it is bracket play and we are ranked 27th out of 32. We will play someone in the three to eight range, most likely. Personally, I have not played and am unsatisfied with my playing time, but am still putting in lots of work and trying to earn a spot for next year. I am continuing to do all of the exercises that are required for this project and have seen significant improvement in my abilities. My travel ball team has a tournament at the end of May and I cannot wait! I enjoy travel ball so much and have been waiting for a while now. We will be playing the majority of the summer in which we will be seeing very good competition but it will be for the best, and I am excited |
AuthorCooper Bliss Archives
May 2022
Categories |