Director of Pitching Performance and Development Jason Howell presents the Target Pitching Performance and Development Camp to be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina in December.
This all-encompassing camp is designed for the athlete eager to learn and enhance their abilities surrounding all aspects of pitching. Using data analytics, biomechanical assessments, along with strength, conditioning, arm care and athletic engaged movement stations, the P2D Target Camp is hyper individualized to help prepare each athlete for their upcoming season and future on the mound.
Carolina Training Academy Pitcher Developmental Program Target Camps are NCAA Compliant and are open to any and everyone limited only by age and number of participants. All skill levels are welcome.
The camp features:
· AGES: 8th Grade – Senior In High School
· WHERE: The University of North Carolina
· WHEN: December 14th – 15th with an optional afternoon session Friday December 13th.
Price: $1495
As a player, coach and professional scout, Coach Jason Howell has been around, collaborated with or coached high caliber pitchers at every level. He has had experience as a player with the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox during MLB Spring Training and has coached in the College World Series as a member of the Nation Runner-up UNC Tar Heel coaching staff. Additionally, Coach Howell has been a two-time NCAA Post-Season National Seed, won 7 Conference Titles, recruited Top 10 nationally ranked recruiting classes, as well as been a part of numerous All-Conference, All-Americans and Professional Draft Picks. Currently, Coach Howell is a member of the University of North Carolina Coaching staff residing in Durham, NC.
“I am excited to bring this inaugural, one of a kind pitching exclusive camp to North Carolina. We have assembled an outstanding first-class specialized staff full of current and former high level professional and collegiate coaches along with Power 5 physical therapist, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning coaches. Additionally, we are introducing a mental aspect to our camp with sessions surrounding baseball and sports psychology. Our goal is to instruct as well as educate, helping pitches become the best version of themselves!”
The Carolina P2D Target Camp is an all-encompassing Pitching Camp and is exclusively customized to each participant. Therefore, limited spaces are available on a first come first serve basis. A waitlist is available along with additional dates in the planning stages set for later in the fall.
The Carolina Pitching Performance and Development Target Camp:
A fully customized pitcher’s camp where we are helping cultivate the next generation of pitchers.
The 90 MPH barrier has been broken by many but at the same time hitters are turning around 93, 94 and 96 MPH heaters at an all-time high. Velocity has become a focal point both on the mound and offensively, while pitchability, command and strike-throwing has taken a back seat. Not at the P2D Target Camp. Within Player Development, we understand that velocity is often a goal but have been around enough to understand that jumps and gains also come as a by-product of efficiency. The efficiency is that which we embrace and then harness its power to help improve not only velocity but control, command and power, giving you the tools and information needed to grow in today’s game and maximize your potential.
P2D FOCUS:
Durability – Resilience – Education – Health – Recovery
Durability:
Through programs that have had success both at the collegiate and professional levels, we help demonstrate and train pitchers to gain and maintain velocity jumps. However, durability is not just about velocity! Opposed to “blowing it out” early during an outing or season, P2D believes in all-around performance focusing on sustained innings pitched per game, as well as peaking and maintaining throughout a season.
Resilience:
Demonstrated and stressed throughout P2D we teach and stress the importance of both the physical and mental toughness needed to help produce and replicate success.
Education:
At P2D we help educate pitchers not only on their own strengths and weaknesses and how they translate into outs during a game but also hitters and tendencies. Additionally, we dive into analytics helping pitchers learn their metrics, meanings and how those metrics come into play during performance. We take a lot of pride in our educational portion of the camp and believe it is an important factor in helping pitchers know and understand who they are and how “their stuff” translates into getting outs and results.
Health:
A pitcher’s health is of the utmost importance. During P2D, our certified athletic trainers have aided the health and recovery of both collegiate and professional pitchers who not only give presentations surrounding arm care but also demonstrate the most up to date techniques of healthy arms on the field. Additionally, a huge part of the Farm’s camp is based on assessments and evaluations of not only the arm but the entire body. Our trainers will put athletes through a series of assessments to help flag any potential shortcomings along with prescribing exercises to aid in improving any flagged issues.
Recovery:
Running hand-in-hand with health, recovery is a big part of P2D's Program. Along with the assessments, recovery exercises are evaluated and prescribed to help athletes post outings, during training and performances.
Within P2D We Strive For:
Strike Zone control moving toward command with the fastball.
Strike Zone control moving toward command with secondary pitches.
An individual repeatable delivery.
Helping athletes learn and understand their metrics and data to become a better pitcher.
Helping pitchers rev their engines (stressing them) by working on throwing and baseball specific workouts and routines - not just the traditional bigger, faster, stronger football workouts seen throughout today.
At P2D, there is trust in a work ethic where a plan and a program can help you gain confidence, consistency and velocity.
At P2D we believe in marrying the three headed monster of Pitching – Physical Therapy – Strength and Conditioning Combined with additional mental tools to equip each pitcher for success.
At P2D there is more than just Ice and Steam. We offer assessments and corrections to help build healthy durable habits that can recover throughout a season.
At P2D, we do not clone but understand there are checkpoints in the delivery that each pitcher must understand. We help enhance the delivery and motion by improving movement patterns to make you more athletic and the most effective pitcher you can be. We want to help you build a bigger, more efficient and smarter motor. From warm-up to recovery, we help you build and understand the engine that fires your mind, body and arm.
Knowledge and awareness are keys:
Others would have you believe you need to surround yourself with a team to aid in your development. Even though sometimes true, we believe you know yourself better than anyone else can. Therefore, we want to help equip you with the knowledge, tools and keys to unlock the best version of yourself.
P2D is here to help:
Velocity can matter but it is not an end all be all to success!
To be your best on the mound, you need to be complete in your development. To do that, you need to know what makes you tick, how you can get hitters out and how you can make your own adjustments – 1 PITCH ADJUSTMENTS!
Concluding, ranging from mechanics to throwing routines to workouts to nutrition to sleep habits, the Carolina Pitching Performance and Development Target Camp is truly an all-encompassing camp that helps you build and understand pitching from the ground up.
Assessment:
Individualized
P2D Process:
ASSESS – FOCUS – MODIFY – INDIVIDUALIZE
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Tentative P2D Camp Itinerary (a more precise itinerary will be sent out and posted at a later date):
Day 1:
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Day 2:
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