# 83 - Baseball EQ - 30 Day Reset Program Description

Most baseball players do not have a talent problem.

They have a pressure, load, and capacity problem.

They can hit in practice.
They can throw in bullpens.
They can look confident when nothing is on the line.

Then the game starts…

And everything changes.

The swing tightens.
The thoughts speed up.
The body language drops.
One bad at-bat turns into three.
One bad inning turns into a full spiral.

That’s not just “mindset.”

That’s a system problem.

In this video, I break down exactly why so many high school and youth baseball players are struggling to access their real game under pressure, and why the old advice:
 • “just be confident”
 • “relax”
 • “trust the process”
 • “slow the game down”

…isn’t enough anymore.

This generation is carrying:
 • more pressure
 • more comparison
 • more phones
 • more distractions
 • more scouts / recruiters / expectations
 • and more kids chasing the exact same goals

Big goals.
But even bigger distractions.

That’s why I built the 30-Day Baseball Reset.

This program is designed for baseball players who need help with:
 • confidence under pressure
 • emotional control
 • body language
 • routines
 • overthinking
 • performance anxiety
 • recovery after mistakes
 • learning how to compete in games the same way they do in practice

This is not generic “mental performance” coaching.

This is baseball-specific performance coaching built around:
 • load
 • pressure
 • capacity
 • awareness
 • nervous system regulation
 • and what actually breaks down when the game gets hard

If your athlete has the tools but can’t consistently access them in games…

this is probably the missing piece.

Message me “RESET”

or use the link below to learn more / apply.

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Who this is for:
 • youth baseball players
 • high school baseball players
 • travel ball / rep players
 • academy athletes
 • parents of serious ballplayers
 • athletes chasing college / junior / pro opportunities

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Topics covered in this video:
 • why the game “speeds up”
 • why confidence disappears in games
 • awareness vs capacity
 • overthinking under pressure
 • baseball IQ vs EQ
 • social media / comparison and performance
 • why players unravel emotionally
 • why this generation needs a different approach

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Transcript

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Okay, here we go. Opening day. Opening day is here. What's up, y'all? Coach Curtis here. Opening day, I guess, was yesterday with the uh official single game, but today's a good day with all the games. You know, I know high school seasons, youth seasons in Canada especially, are creeping up, and everybody's reaching out because they're seeing stuff in practice. They're realizing they're at a new level and they might be timid. And now, you know what? Now's the time. Opening day is around the corner. Not next month, not when the season starts going sideways. We don't want to be reactive, we want to be proactive, not when the confidence is already gone, right? That's when everybody starts trying to duct tape a kid back together after a couple bad weekends. So we got the 30-day baseball reset. Like I said, I've had a lot of people reaching out for mindset to performance, kind of not knowing what they're asking for either. I have conversations and you know I've been I've been a little bit stubborn with my programming because I understand and I know it takes quite a while to pound the mental game home. So I usually started a six-month program, but yeah, I've I've had a lot of good players reach out. I've had a lot of families, athletes, you know, hard hard workers reach out. And when I when I bring up that six-month program, I think there's a bit of hesitation. And honestly, fair enough. It's a big ask. You know, it's a it's a it's like an arranged marriage, right? Or diving in, we don't even know each other. So here's the bridge. 30 days, 30-day reset. Get 30 days with me to actually get this part of the game sorted, start to create a plan, start to see what's going on, and see if this is a missing piece. And I'll say this loud and clear, right? If you do the work, you're gonna see a big difference. Not because it's magic, not because I'm selling some fairy dust, because the work is actually quite simple. But the big problem with simple. This generation is not built for simple. Our bodies are, our bodies haven't changed, our capacity hasn't changed, but society has become complicated. And this is not a shot at this generation. That's the reality. There's a lot of kids out there. They got big goals, they're huge dreams, there's more competition than ever. We've got more kids chasing the same amount of spots, same amount of scholarships, the same roster spots, same opportunities, but there's more distraction, there's more comparison, there's more ratings, there's more phones, noise, coaches in their ear, people in their ear, pressure, and way less actual direction. So that's the modern players. So what happens? So what happens? A kid can have real goals, real ability, real potential, everything, and still get pulled off track every day, and still get pulled off track every day. Not because he's lazy, not because he doesn't care, not because he's soft. The system is cooked, it's overloaded, and nobody's really teaching the kids how to deal with it. So what do we do instead? What's the common thing coaches and parents do? We say relax, be confident out there, be aggressive, trust the process, take a deep breath, don't think. My favorite. I'm sorry, but that stuff is mostly useless when a player is already underwater begging for air. Because those words only work if the system underneath the player can actually receive them. Most players right now, they can't. You might think you can, but here's the deal. You don't know what you don't know, and you only know what you know. So there's a big gap right in there. And that's what this program's all about. So here's what this program fixes. This is not typical mental performance coaching, the old school way. I mean, I mean, we're not gonna pretend we fix everything with breath work, meditation, visualizing things, affirmation, self-talk journaling. And hey, before some mental skills guy, you know, chirps me in his quarter zip and gets offended, let me let me be clear. Those things matter. They're useful, they're great tools. I teach them, I use them, I build them into systems, but they're a different layer. There are a couple layers too far ahead for what a lot of this generation is dealing with. You go into a youth team and you try to start using these tools on top of a system that's already overloaded, unstable, distracted, leaking confidence, it doesn't hold. It's not gonna hold. You're gonna have kids now that are more upset that they can't do a breathing exercise properly because they're so distracted and it didn't make them feel better. So they're gonna start questioning that shit. Talk about lack of confidence from not hitting out. How about lack of confidence for not breathing right? And this is why the same kid who looks unbelievable in practice, inner squad, you know, anything in the cage looks completely different in games, acts different in games. If you're a ball player, you got a ball player in your house, you already know what I'm talking about. Pisses on balls in BP, right? Throws free hit spots in his pens, looks loose, confident, dangerous, light, feet look good, athletic, relaxed, then the game starts. Man, suddenly swing tightens up, body language changes, thoughts start going a million miles, thoughts start speeding up, fear shows up, game speeds up, confidence disappears. And now we're all pretending that this is uh this is a mechanical issue, right? We're we're going over film after the game. I bet you the swing's fine. I bet you're gonna find something wrong with a swing because lack of confidence had a player late, timing was off, so the swing doesn't look good on film because they're late. I mean, that's just that's how it is. You can't you can't break down a late swing. There's no point, everything changes. So again, it's not a mechanical issue. The thing with baseball is that it's not testing your skill, it's it's it's testing your ability to hold your skill. That's the whole thing. Player doesn't magically forget how to hit. He doesn't magically forget how to hit because he he got caught looking, you know, on a backdoor slider. Pitcher doesn't lose his stuff because he gave up a double in the gap. What changes is the system underneath the player. And that's where this work starts. Okay, and this is why the game starts to speed up for guys. Every player's felt this early in games. Early in the season, things feel fine, ball looks good, timing feels good, thoughts are quiet, then something small happens. Bad call, a couple strikeouts in a game. You boot a ball, back-to-back walks, bad inning, pitch they should have hit two. Oh, they're late, whatever it is, right? Early in the season. And now suddenly the game feels faster, right? Why? What were the expectations to begin with? Do you have expectations? Did you give yourself a runway for this? The game didn't speed up. The player system did. And that's one of the biggest things we talk about in the EQOS model, emotional intelligence operating system. When load gets too high, players lose space, capacity. Time feels compressed, thoughts come in earlier, body gets tighter. Now decisions are getting rushed. That's why players feel late or they chase or they're forcing things. That's why they're starting to try to fix things mid-game, usually makes it worse. That's why kids are running behind for school. I mean, they're a lot of times their nervous system is torsed. They're already comparing themselves to others, and they're just they're not moving the same. It's not that the players aren't educated, right? They know plenty. It's usually the opposite. Sometimes they know too much, which leads to the next thing. Awareness is not the problem. Capacity is. And this is one of my biggest ideas in my work and in the book I'm currently writing. Most players today have have tons of awareness. They know what they should do. They've had all the coaches, they've seen all the videos, they've been on YouTube, they've heard the cues, they've seen the Rap Soto, they've worn the Kass, they've they've done all the stuff. And they know how to stay through it or, you know, sequence properly, pronate, coil all the words, stay graphs of compete, all of that. Issues not awareness, the issue is capacity. Can the player actually hold what he knows when the game gets hard? That's the question. Outcome equals awareness times capacity. We all want outcome. I know that. But awareness and capacity are the process. And it's not awareness alone, it's not talent alone, it's it's not effort alone. Because if awareness is high but capacity is low, you get overthinking, hesitation, emotional leakage, smash and helmets, rush decisions, timid play, you know, guys aren't gonna swing. Ceiling is so low in a game, you know, the bass speed is is just terrible. And Akita looks like he's in his own way. That's what a lot of parents are seeing, don't know how to describe. They don't know how to deal with it. That's fair, fair enough. But that's what we fix here, that's what we address here. That's what we talk about. This generation, I keep saying this generation because it's a generation, they have big goals. But, like we've talked about, they got bigger distractions. Kids are carrying a ridiculous amount of invisible pressure. Maybe pressure they shouldn't even be carrying. You know, it's it's again, it's expectations. It's too much information, it's too much awareness, too many ribbons and you know, smacks on the butt and high fives, and go get them, buddy, you can do anything you want. It's like, you know, maybe you're not there yet. Maybe you don't need to worry about scouts, but you know, they're they're putting this pressure on themselves to to impress scouts, recruiters, post on social media, be at every PBR event for rankings, compare, post highlights, um, you know, talk about metrics, identity, image, right? Having minutes, it's like an eye black, all the craziness, and that constant feeling that if you're not doing enough, someone else is doing more, right? That's a lot. So yeah, kids want big things. JUCO, D1, Draft Dreams, travel balls, travel ball tournaments, national team, opportunity. They want opportunity, the goals are real, but the path has been never been noisier. And when the path is noisy, the athlete gets pulled in 10 directions. They start becoming things that that they don't need to become. And that's why a huge part of what we do in this 30 days is we eliminate, we strip down, we unbecome unnecessary versions of ourselves. Not even talking about baseball right now. We're talking about the kid, we're talking about the person, we're talking about what's going on in that coconut. We get rid of what is not serving performance, okay? Because right now, a lot of players are carrying way too many voices, way too many cues, too many expectations, too many identity pieces, so much emotional clutter. And they're trying to compete on top of all of it and stay relevant. That's why they feel heavy, that's why they look different in games and defeated after. That's why this work really matters. I'm sure you've heard it. I'm sure you see it. I'm sure coaches talk about it. I know the old boys too, but everyone keeps saying it. Baseball IQ is getting lower and lower and it's disappearing. Honestly, it's it that's not wrong. But it's also not totally correct because IQ is not the first thing breaking here. EQ is emotional quotient, emotional load, emotional regulation. Before some teenage dude with the same haircut everybody else has says, I'm not emotional. Yeah, you are. You don't have to cry in the dugout to be emotional. Emotion is frustration, urgency, fear, comparison, pressure, panic, forcing things, proving things, trying not to fail. That's all emotion. When that part's full, the game gets noisy. So now the player is scanning for everything. Again, scouts, coaches, recruiters, radar guns, social media, phones, fucking PBR cross-checker dorks with their phones out. Where is he in the stands? What does this mean? What happens if I fail? It's not calm. And you know, meanwhile, coach down third base, you know, running through, you know, ripping through signs, and dudes are missing signs, and everyone thinks IQ is low and the players aren't paying attention. Tell you what, man, it's fight or flight right now. Where a player's in that state, he's not accessing the cleanest version of his baseball IQ. It's it's just a noisy mess. It's it's clumped up, it's messy, it's static y it's it's it's hard. So no, IQ isn't gone. It's there, it's just buried. You need capacity in order to access IQ. Bottom line. If the nervous system is overloaded, the baseball brain gets hijacked. That's why a smart player can suddenly look dumb. Not because he forgot the game. He's lost access to what he knows. One out, and he thinks, you know, he just keeps running the basis. And that's why this work matters so much. So here's what we do in 30 days. Try to make this as simple as possible, but I'm quite passionate about this, and I want to give all the information I can. This program gives you 30 days with me. In that 30 days, we start building a real operating system for performance. Let's talk about baseball for us. I'm talking about performance mindset, like all the time. Not just one good talk, pat on the ass, go get them, tiger stud, whatever, whatever you, you know, whatever the guys are saying. We're talking about real structure. Here's what's inside Initial deep dive session. So we figure out what's actually going on. We look at where confidence drops, emotions leak, what pressure does to the athlete, what patterns are showing up in games, talking about body language. Sure, talking about self-talk. Man, I'll tell you what, some players don't even have self-talk. Their systems are so overloaded. They're not even talking to themselves, forget how to speak English sometimes. Talking about routines, talking about what happens after failure. I'm gonna talk to the parents. Love if the parents are involved. I want to talk about the parents and what they're seeing. Shoot, you can get your coach involved here. What's coach seeing? And what is the athlete carrying? Matters. It matters because a lot of players are trying to solve the wrong problem. So we're gonna get so we're gonna get accurate and we're going to get very intentional first. Then we're doing weekly coaching calls and we're doing weekly zooms. Every week we're going to work on what is showing up in real time. And we're not going over the theory of mental performance or say called it, what happened this weekend? What happened this week? What did you feel before the game? How'd you handle it? Where were you rushed? Where did you feel tight? Did you feel drift? Do you remember? Did you have a plan? Did you have an approach? Did you stick to that approach? What did you adjust this way? This is where people this is where players start seeing, I don't, you know, there's a lot, a lot of things I should be doing, but I'm not. Why am I not doing it? Once they can see that, we can we can we can really start to change it. We're going direct support between calls. This is one of the biggest pieces of this. And it's a lot of parents and players who shy away from it at first because they're like, oh, I don't want to bug Coach Curtis. As you get to know me, I'm I I get more pissed off if you don't. We gotta we gotta get things going in real time here. Because baseball doesn't fall apart on a Zoom meeting. The Zoom meetings, well, this stuff's easy, right? It's information, it's where we plan, it's where we do stuff. Falls apart in the car after the game, after an 0 for 3, after an error, after a you know, you get pummeled in the first inning. Okay, four game two on a Sunday after scrolling social media and comparing yourself to every other kid in Texas. And this is why players can message me between sessions. I encourage it and I usually message them. I usually prompt it. So instead of sitting in the spiral, they're getting real-time support through the actual moment. This changes things fast because again, they don't feel alone. And they don't feel like they have to go to their manager or hitting coach for this stuff because those guys have jobs to do. Tracking plus awareness work. Again, this is not glamorous, this is not sexy, real hard to post about this and guess get likes, trust me. I don't get a lot of likes on my stuff when it when it gets real deep. But this is the stuff that separates the players who actually hold up. We do, we track things, we quantify emotional control, body language, recovery after mistakes, confidence dips. What's causing pressure? Are you choosing the pressure? What helped you reset? What behaviors changed before performance dropped? What are we noticing? Because one of the most important ideas and pieces of information that you're going to carry is this. Behavior is the signal. Before performance break, behavior changes first. Again, before a pitcher spirals, something happened. Came off the mound, caught the ball with a little bit more aggression, hitter, smack the bat on his head. There is behavior. It means we can catch the behavior early. We can stop the collapse before it snowballs. That's huge. We got custom tools and we got routines. Every athlete's going to going to not just get access, but build actual tools. It's not just random cookie cutter inspirational shit. Okay, we're gonna figure out what your pregame routine is based on you. Between a bat reset, post mistake recovery tools, pitchers, pregame. You know, how are you getting ready for your pen? What do you what is your routine? What do you focus on in games? What do you do in between innings? What are you doing on the bench? What are you eliminating outside of the games? And so we're not just saying, hey man, go out there and be confident. It's like, yo, thanks, coach. Appreciate it. Because again, confidence, it's not a speech, it's not words, it's a system. You need a system. When you believe in a system, you start to play, start to live your life on offense. When you live your life on offense, man, confidence is through the roof. So this program is for high school players, youth players, but for those who are actually serious, serious about playing at the next level, dudes who want to stop getting in their own way. They want to compete cleaner. They want to stop taking bad games home for 48 hours, not talking to their parents, pissed off about everything, right? It's not fun. Baseball's isn't baseball fun, isn't that why we play? It's for dudes who want to stop pressing. It's for players who want to stop performing like a different human in games than they do in practice. And honestly, this is for parents who are tired of watching their kids have all the tools in the world, but zero access to them when it matters. Like I said, this is not the glamorous part of baseball. This is kind of in the weeds, dirty work, in the mud, you know, going into your shadow a little bit. There's no perfect game metrics for this. This doesn't get everybody, you know, talking about you and all the hard work you're doing on your mental side. But if you actually think about it, this this is the work that gets verified over time. This is the part nobody sees. And reality, this is the part that does decide everything. I'll know those players, those dudes, they make it look easy. They're loose or confident, they're common big moments, they look like the game slows down for them, they're they're having fun. What don't you see? Okay, what don't you see is how much work went into making it look that way. Because making it look easy takes a lot of damn work. When I say work, I don't just mean reps or swings or you know, long toss or drive line balls, you know, whatever the work is, the physical work. This work is, you know what? This work's kind of boring sometimes. Simple, it's repeatable, but this work builds stability. And here's where most players get it wrong. Thought I was gonna be done, right? Nope. They're chasing outcome, right? You're chasing highlights, you're chasing results. Every time you play, every time you practice, you're hoping to get that instead of building a system that actually produces it. And that's why, you know what? You see flashes of brilliance, but it doesn't hold. Because baseball doesn't reward what you can do once, it rewards what you can repeat, what you can hold, what shows up when things get hard, what shows up when you're down five-nothing in the third. That's the difference. So, yeah, this part of the game is sexy, but it is real. And if you're serious about playing at the next level, this is physical skills to get you in the door. This is gonna keep you in the damn room. Because I see it. Yeah, I see it in real time right now. Without this work, a lot of talented kids don't hold up. And then what happens, right? They they get the shot, they get the school, they get the offer, they get the exposure, shit, and then they get there, and they can't handle the load.

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Mom and dad aren't there. Now they're just another another one of those guys who who both goes off for Juco, you know, decided to take on the world, they're back home at Christmas. Seeing a subway siren. Not because they weren't good enough, by the way. You know what? Job of Subway is not a bad thing. But, you know, reality, they weren't stable enough, they didn't have capacity. And really, truly, like this is the truth. I'm not gonna say nobody wants to say or talk about. This is a truth that I don't think is fully understood yet, but it's fixable. So if you've watched this to the end and you're thinking, all right, I am that kid, or yeah, that is my kid. All right, good. Means you already know this matters. And if you've been waiting for something to go wrong or opening day to finally do something about it, or next year, I mean, shoot, work with 10, 11, 12 year olds on this stuff. Build the habits early. But if now's the time to pull the trigger, like I said, not six six months from now, not after your confidence gets smoked or you know, you get reamed out by a coach for not doing the basics, not after the season turns into damage control. Now, now do it now. I know it's it's uh it's an unknown land here where uh where I work. But trust me when I say once you once you get taste and once you once you start to buy in and create capacity, you're gonna get it. So again, the 30-day baseball reset gives you 30 days with me to get this part sorted. Again, I'll say it one more time. If you do the work, you're gonna see the difference. Work is simple, but simple doesn't mean easy. It's exactly what this generation struggles. That's why we build structure, it's why we reduce load. It's not a discipline issue. I'm hearing a lot of coaches and parents say lack of discipline. It's hard to hold the structure. We gotta reduce the load. We gotta build capacity, and we're gonna slow the game down by building a player who can actually carry what is needed. So if you want to message me, DM me, go to my website, email me, knock on my door, right? This is my world, this is what I do. Get in touch, I'll send you the details. Happy opening day. Baseball season's here. Let's get to work.