Three programs
for BetaBall coaches and teams:
1. Coaching Ambidexterity: I strongly encourage all BetaBall coaches to teach all their players to
become ambidextrous so that their back, shoulder, forearm, leg, and foot
muscles develop in symmetry. This is an attempt to avoid back, joint, and
muscle problems later in life. Two examples are Tiger Woods in golf and Rafael
Nadal in tennis.
Only one out of one hundred people are
naturally and fully ambidextrous. Most of us are
naturally ambidextrous in juggling, swimming, typing, keyboard music, texting, touch screens, buttoning, pouring, paintball, boxing, and martial arts. Here are some benefits to being ambidexterity
in sports:
BetaBall and Cricket: Throwing, catching, and hitting.
Football: Passing,
punting, hand-off, place kicking.
Basketball: Layups,
field shots, free throws.
Tennis: Running
forehand on both sides
Returning
center line serves.
Squash Replacing difficult
back hand returns.
Bowling: Symmetrical arm
and leg development.
Curling: Left and right
in turns and out turns.
Strengthen the
non-dominant arm. Lift weights with
your opposite hand to help strengthen the muscles. Start with light weights and
as you get stronger, use heavier and heavier ones. Start by brushing your teeth, cooking and
eating utensils, comb your hair, paint or trim your nails, soap in the shower,
shaving, signing your name, drawing, using home tools.
2.
Coaching
Diet, Eating habits, and Nutrition.
Coaches
may request a plan to teach good diet and eating habits to all players. Your players will become role models in their
schools, colleges, and communities. The
fundamentals are:
1.
Food: 1 bite per 1 minute. Slow to let mouth bacteria work.
2.
Equal volume of water before each cola, beer, or juice.
3.
Eat all snacks with chop sticks. Left handed for Asians.
4.
No “screens”, and no texting while eating.
5.
No cardboard, foil, plastic or paper wrappers. Plates.
6.
Eat in a respectful environment and with tableware.
7.
Develop a deep respect for food and your body.
I recommend serving lentil soup, pot roast, or roasted vegetables plus
nano-fizz water after each practise and game. Replace the custom of the whole
team heading to a fast food joint after practise or a game to load up on sugar,
fat, breaded flour, and salt.
This program is based on my pamphlet titled “The 10,000 Meal Diet”
currently in English and Chinese.
3. Measuring the Benefits of BetaBall:
Each team paying
a BetaBall royalty for the 2015 season will be offered 20 heart monitor wrist
bracelets on loan free for 1 week. The wrist bracelets measure distance, heart
rate, calories spent, and hopefully blood pressure over a 2 hour time period for
each player. Coaches will organize an intra-mural standard Baseball game on day
one; followed by game of BetaBall on day two.
Compare the readings for each player; and return the bracelets.
BetaBall videos now on You Tube and sport video sites.
BetaBall was created by Denis Braun.
(soon to be formed)
BetaBall Supply Depot in the USA, Canada,
Zhongshan, and Zurich.
Left: A traditional baseball field with an infield
that is part grass and part turf. Bases are 90 feet apart in a square box
shape. Foul lines extend at a 90 degree vector from home plate. Distances to
the outfield wall differ from stadium to stadium.
Right: A new BetaBall
field with an infield that is part grass and part turf. Bases are 28 meters apart
in a slight diamond shape. Foul lines extend from home plate. Distances to the
outfield wall be standardized eventually at approximately 100 meters to the
right field and left field corners (foul poles) and 120 meters to the center
field wall.
A painted arc in the
outfield defines the area that outfielders can catch and throw balls during a
DPP.
The invisible pathway
in the infield is a running swath unique to each player and defines the 3.5
meter wide swath inside which the DPP in progress can be voided if the runner
can touch the ball or touch any defensive player.
Home Plate and
Batters Boxes
Left: Home
plate in traditional baseball. 17” wide and 8.5” sides.
Center: BetaBall
home plate expansion. 18-19” wide and 17” sides. The front “square” is layered
and hinged on the front side so the top layer can be opened 180 degrees like a
toilet seat to extend the plate to + 34”. The
catcher touches the top of the plate and the runner touches the bottom of the
plate.
Right: BetaBall
home plate during DPP. The top layer of the plate is flipped over by the home
umpire when a DPP initiates.
BetaBall
Sevens: 7770. 7 players, 7 innings in a 70 degree vector
field.
Left: A 70 degree vector field for 7 players.( 2
outfielders. 3 infielders, a pitcher, and a catcher). 7 innings. 2 strike strikeouts. 3 balls to
walk.
Right: A 3 field
BetaBall Sevens complex. Center core double octagon for restaurants, utilities,
washrooms, press box, studios, and sponsor suites. From Megazebo.ccm (concept)
Stands and spectator
seating along the foul lines of each field; and adjoining bleachers beyond the
outfield walls allow fan movement around the outer circumference of the complex.
Two level corporate suites will top each spectator stands. Up to 200 suites in
the complex. 40,000 spectator seats.
Note #1: Some measurements may be in metric; others in
English measure. Our primary target market is Asia, India, and Europe where
baseball is declining or in its infancy.
Note #2: All players and teams who register with
BetaBall will receive the following:
1. An
opportunity to borrow 20 medical and heart monitor wrist bracelets for 1 week
to evaluate the conditioning benefits of BetaBall.
2. A pamphlet on diet and eating habits called the
“10,000 Meal Diet”
3. A
core curriculum that we feel is essential to all BetaBall players and athletes
seeking higher education or employment in a foreign country. This study highlights the 5 most important
relationships (pillars) that need to be understood in the international world.
The
5 Pillars of BetaBall’s education philosophy.
1. Space
plan. The full metric system and the
relationship between distance, volume, and mass.
2. Health
plan. The relationship between food,
health, and productivity.
3. Priority
environments. a) your body. b) your home or apartment; and c) the 100mile radius
around your home or school.
4. Economic
plan. The relationship between work, discipline, and reward. This is Asian education philosophy 101.
5. Civility
Plan. The relationship between respect, war, and revenge. ………….
the consequences of dis-respect.
4. Free
tuition to Sam McGee University when it opens on line in 2017. This School of
Communications is for senior students seeking employment or further education abroad.
12 optional languages, text, voice, and facial recognition, sign language,
dress, dinner table, signature communication, and VOP Vow of Poverty.
