Radio Scouts Podcast: Taking Questions to Ask Hitting Instructor Rob Ciaravino

[P2F]

On February 11th, we will be interviewing Rob Ciaravino, founder/director/hitting instructor of The Hitting Academy in Tampa, Florida.

 

As we previously did for our interview with Josh Winckowski, we are looking to crowd-source for some good questions to ask this man.

 

Here's a brief background of Rob:

 

Rob Ciaravino

 

FOUNDER OF THE HITTING ACADEMY

 

Rob Ciaravino is the Founder of The Hitting Academy that started in 2007 in Florida.

 

Since 1990 Rob has been involved in baseball at all levels. He started out as an intern with the Toronto Blue Jays and then went on to become a college hitting coach. He has extensive experience teaching baseball to athletes of all ages. As the primary instructor of the Hitting Academy he has helped hundreds of young players improve their skills. From 2010-2013 he was the head coach of Team Florida, a youth baseball team that had a record of 202 wins and 3 losses. The advanced training that these players received at the Hitting Academy was a major factor in their success. Rob has also been a Varsity High School Baseball Coach several times and has help send over 65 players to play in college and/or professional baseball.

 

While I'm certain that Rob has some specific things he'd like to talk about, we'd also like to ask him some smart, engaging questions that would make for a good interview.

 

For reference, this was Rob on the Going Yard Podcast in June of 2019:

 

https://goingyardpodcast.podbean.com/e/gyp-baseball-rob-ciaravino/

Edited January 29, 2020 by P2F

[max silver]

Are plate discipline and pitch recognition skills that can be taught, or does success in these areas more rely on things like eye-sight and reaction times? What methods work best for working to improve pitch recognition for young hitters?

[Beans]

Ask him how he would help Kevin Smith after the year he had.

[Beans]

Are a hitter's early-age mechanics/swing form grooved into his neurological patterns and thus important to develop hitters at a very young age?

[Spanky99]

That's my Birthday, I'd love it by'

[TheHurl]

I'd ask him how he'll be celebrating Spanky's birthday?

 

Also he talks about countering spin rates as a hitter. I'd love to hear a bit more about that and does he feel that hitters would benefit from attending some of the pitching programs?

 

Lastly did they look at other programs like Rapsodo or Trackman over hittrax? And why HitTrax?

[Spanky99]

I'd ask him how he'll be celebrating Spanky's birthday?

 

Also he talks about countering spin rates as a hitter. I'd love to hear a bit more about that and does he feel that hitters would benefit from attending some of the pitching programs?

 

Lastly did they look at other programs like Rapsodo or Trackman over hittrax? And why HitTrax?

 

I like my Birthday entail... that's awesome!

[Abomination]

On February 11th, we will be interviewing Rob Ciaravino, founder/director/hitting instructor of The Hitting Academy in Tampa, Florida.

 

As we previously did for our interview with Josh Winckowski, we are looking to crowd-source for some good questions to ask this man.

 

Here's a brief background of Rob:

 

 

 

While I'm certain that Rob has some specific things he'd like to talk about, we'd also like to ask him some smart, engaging questions that would make for a good interview.

 

For reference, this was Rob on the Going Yard Podcast in June of 2019:

 

https://goingyardpodcast.podbean.com/e/gyp-baseball-rob-ciaravino/

 

Maybe something about what they can do to improve pitch recognition / reaction time. There's got to be more they're doing than just suggesting more reps.

[The Cats Ass]

WTF did you lose those 3 games?

[Terminator]

The flyball revolution has taken over MLB where the athletes are much stronger. Does he instruct younger hitters differently than he does a college or big league hitter? Seems like ground balls can be more effective in high school where the defenses aren't always fundamentally sound. If he does instruct younger hitters differently then at what point would he try to get them to hit more flyballs?

 

There's a better way to word that question so feel free to tweak it but I think you know what I mean.

[P2F]

Thanks for contributing to this, guys.

 

Last call for questions!

[P2F]

You can listen to the interview here:

 

https://bit.ly/3bLaZrp

[DigitalRock]

Will anyone ever touch Reese's bats again?

[TheHurl]

This guy can just talk baseball. I find it fascinating.

[Boxcar]

This guy can just talk baseball. I find it fascinating.

 

Care-a-veeno

 

Another guy who can't pronounce his own last name