ABOUT ME

My name is Harold Mozingo.  I played 6 years of professional baseball in the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays organizations.  I am now offering  baseball lessons and training near Tappahannock, VA. I am offering hitting, pitching and fielding lessons as well as throwing and training programs.  I have designed a velocity development program known as the MVP (Mozingo Velocity Program).  This is a very unique program as it offers the proper way to warm up, arm care, a throwing program, drill work, and training.  When it comes to pitching, I am not a big believer in changing a lot of things mechanically as I believe each kid is unique and should not try to be molded like someone else.  There are a few mechanical drills that I do especially early in a kids development that are based around injury prevention.  I teach what has been taught to me as Reverse Chain Drills.  That means we start with the last part of the pitch and work are ways back to the set up.  After the kids have mastered that I give them other drills trying to incorporate the proper use of the body to explode off the mound.  I am not a believer in slow movements.  Pitching is an explosive exercise and needs to be taught that way.  Train fast, Be fast; Train slow, Be slow.  There are little things I look for that play a part in velocity that mostly cannot be seem in real speed and need to be broken down slower so I do videotape once the basics are covered to ensure that I am giving the kids the best instructions.  I do not baby arms unless there is an injury or soreness.  I believe you should throw a lot to strengthen and condition your arm. I also believe what separates a lot of players is in the training.  Most people have your best intentions in mind when they design workouts for you but the truth is most people don't have a clue what it takes to train for the highest levels.  There is a right way to train for baseball.  The bench press is a fine exercise but that along with bicep curls should not be the staple of training for baseball.  I also am not training players to become the best 12 year old around but I have a bigger picture in mind  (college and hopefully beyond) and want each kid to reach his full potential whatever that may be.