For university baseball team practice, you should imitate the training of the powerhouse schools that have gathered.

How did you conduct team practice during your student days?


In university baseball, there are many situations where student coaches have to come up with the menu for team practice.

However, in reality, I often feel that it ends up being just a one-off practice where they ask, 'What should we do today?'

I personally believe that thinking by working backward is important.

Where do you want to be in a few years? Working backward from that goal, you decide what to do in one year, three months, one month, one week, and today. I believe that building upon that leads to achieving your goals.

This should apply not only to individuals but also to the team.

What is needed to win the next league match? What should the underclassmen acquire for next spring?

I believe that building practice by working backward from there is what team practice should ideally be.

However, when I talk about this, I am often told things like this:

'But there are so many people, and I don't know what we should do.'
'Isn't it best to just do a high volume of repetitions in the end?'

To some extent, there are parts that improve if you do a high volume of repetitions.

But is that effort really the shortest route to achieving your goal?

You might move forward a little. However, I always wonder if that is truly the best effort.

There must be a more efficient way to put in effort.

If you don't know it with your own knowledge, you should ask a coach. Nowadays, there are plenty of ways to learn, whether through books, papers, or videos.

And there is an even simpler solution in university baseball.


That is,

to incorporate the training that each powerhouse school has conducted.


Players from powerhouse schools across the country have gathered at the university.

Each of them has experienced training that has produced results at schools that are regulars at Koshien or at the top level nationwide.

Therefore, I think we should share information like,

'At our current level, I think the training we did at School XX is good.'

'At School YY, we practiced bunting in this form.'

And then arrange it to fit our own team.

Of course, this doesn't mean you should just copy everything exactly as it is.

The important thing is to understand the purpose of that training.

Why do we do this training?

What is this training for?

Once you understand that, you improve it to fit your own number of people, level, and environment.

There is always a reason why teams that produce results do so.

That is why we should first learn the training that has produced results, and then keep only what is truly good.

Isn't that the value of university baseball?

Over the three years of high school, each of us learned a different kind of baseball.

Bringing those experiences together, exchanging opinions, and creating something better as a group—

I believe that is the true appeal of university baseball.

In the end, there is a reason why winning teams win.

There is also a reason why losing teams lose.

That is why I want us to be a team that can choose training based on the reason 'because it is necessary to win,' rather than 'because that is what we have done until now.'

I always want to act by working backward. At the very least, I want to decide team practice in one-week units.

You cannot achieve thoroughness with practice that is only for that day.
Continuing the best effort is the number one shortcut.

To find the best, I learn from every single event every day.

That is the way of life I want to pursue.

That is all for today.

Thank you for reading until the end.