Tony Abbatine

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Field Notes

On vision, mental-visual performance, and the inside game.

More from the blog

  1. Leadership

    Visual Leadership

    What leaders can learn from how elite athletes direct their attention under pressure.
    January 2025
  2. Coaching

    Coaching Reflections: Be the Light

    On the coach's real job, and the energy that outlasts any single drill.
    November 2024
  3. Mindset

    Inside-out living. Why Mood matters!

    How state of mind quietly sets the ceiling on performance.
    October 2024
  4. Mindset

    Happy Habits: How good is your Good?

    Raising your baseline so a good day is genuinely good.
    July 2024
  5. The Chase to be Great. The Journey starts with defining Greatness.

    July 2024
  6. Visual Psychology

    Ocular Agita. The Cause or Effect in Performance Drops

    The visual stress hiding underneath so many slumps.
    July 2024
  7. Happy Habits: How good is your Good?

    September 2023
  8. Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. The ultimate bad ass coach!

    March 2018
  9. Eye control is mind control!

    February 2018
  10. Remove the Yoke and never Choke again.

    August 2017
  11. Pull the trigger. Good,bad or wrong. Make a decision

    June 2017
  12. The secret recipe all elite teams and players use!

    May 2017
  13. The 3 biggest mistakes parents and athletes Selection process.

    May 2017
  14. Slow life and the Game down. The habits of the best athletes

    May 2017
  15. The beauty and life lessons in tragedy.

    May 2017
  16. I need to major in something impressive so I can get a job one day

    May 2017
  17. Three second rule in dropping food changing thought to actions!

    May 2017
  18. Make the call to the Mood Police.

    April 2017
  19. Stop the story  and and write a new script!

    April 2017
  20. Magic Monday. Reset and get it right this week!

    April 2017
  21. Say YES! to Drugs!

    April 2017
  22. A daily dose of ALPHA! The ultimate wave to ride today.

    April 2017
  23. How Michelangelo and Manny see the world!  No look seeing!

    April 2017
  24. World Premiere of FOPO.

    April 2017
  25. Live like the Seven Dwarfs! Sleep eat and be Merry.

    April 2017
  26. Bad thoughts, crap results.

    March 2017
  27. Ready Set Go...1440 times today to get it right.

    March 2017
  28. FEAR

    March 2017
  29. Ditch the Bitch

    March 2017
  30. The ground is the enemy; walk like a winner starting today.

    March 2017
  31. Parents' Guidelines For Baseball & Softball College Recruiting

    October 2016
  32. How to fix the Little League enrollment problem facing nation!

    October 2016
  33. 10 Tall Tales of Baseball

    September 2016
  34. Scope and Rope: A Visual Profile of Major League Hitters

    September 2016
  35. Travel Baseball For High School Players: Shotgun or Rifles?

    December 2015
  36. Take Selfies! Stop fatal cardio hitting

    December 2015
  37. The Trilogy of Throwing

    June 2015
  38. Second tour of duty for Abbatine with the USA National Team

    June 2015
  39. The gift of a lifetime; Running Speed

    March 2015
  40. Are pitching coaches killing the American Fastball?

    February 2015
  41. Save Baseball and add a CLOCK!

    February 2015
  42. The Two-Hip Hitting Myth

    February 2014

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