BRUCE BOLT BLOG

As parents, we want sports to help our kids learn teamwork, become leaders, build mental toughness, and develop social skills. We want sports to be fun. Sometimes this doesn’t align with the way we assess their performance. Instead, we measure by winning/losing, mistakes, and comparison to capabilities and expectations. Viewed from the bleachers and the folding chairs, repeated mistakes, bad decisions, and perceived subpar performance cause us to heat up. Threat sensors in the primitive part of the brain fixate on what’s upsetting us. This information becomes brighter, louder, and crisper than everything else. We dive headfirst into a negative thought/feeling loop, creating a...

  * * * Stay in the know Find out why Tanner Carson, Instagram's @raised_in_baseball, loves BRUCE BOLT batting gloves and rocks 'em at the plate.   "Three reasons why I love Bruce Bolt batting gloves. The first is comfort. I've used tons of different types and brands of batting gloves throughout my years playing baseball, and I can by far say that BRUCE BOLT has the most comfortable batting gloves. The use of cabretta leather is really, really soft.It feels amazing on my hands, and they have articulation in the knuckles, which makes it feel like your hands aren't...

  * * * Stay in the know   Founder and CEO, Bear Mayer, has been on the road to catch up with our BRUCE BOLT pros and show them the newest Signature Series glove we're about to drop.   Also, Bear may or may not have revived his pitching career!   Get all the juicy details in this new episode of the BRUCE BOLT Podcast (now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts).

   * * * Stay in the know Big news! We've grown so fast that we're moving warehouses. Stay tuned all this month as we run a Moving Sale on select items—we want you to get in on special deals as we pack up our inventory. We're doing our best to make sure the transition is seamless. Watch your inboxes and stay tuned! We're working on exciting things...

As a mental skills coach, I define high performance this way: High performance is the ability to execute the task at hand when the situation requires it. This execution happens in the present moment, and the most valuable mental resource to make it happen is attention. The brain’s default is to SQUIRREL… wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, it’s the brain’s tendency to wander off. For an athlete, there are 3 unconscious processes that pull attention from the task at hand. Stay in the know Number 1: Assessing the Current Experience as Bad This is mindfulness 101, as I...

The Ralph S. O’Connor Center for Recreation and Well-Being, located on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, closes at midnight during the week—a reflection of the culture at the elite Baltimore college where many students hit the gym only after long days and nights of hitting the books. One student, about a decade ago, pushed those limits even further. “If you could get in before midnight, our baseball facility was in the basement,” Raul Shah recalled in a recent conversation. “So I could go down there (at about 11:45) and stay there the whole night. Nobody would ever check. I...