Ahead Of The Curve with Jonathan Gelnar

About Ahead Of The Curve with Jonathan Gelnar

Host Jonathan Gelnar and an array of guests from differing backgrounds discuss how to develop the complete baseball player. This will be your source for the most up to date coaching strategies for baseball player and coach development.

Publisher

Jonathan Gelnar, bleav

Category

sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jul 2017

Latest episode

15 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

36 of 364 episodes have a transcript.

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   15 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Best of 2019: CJ Gillman, Tyler Gillum, Matt Talarico, Ryan Folmar, James Vilade.

   AOTC Officially Retired. So for episode 1, we're joined by Air Force Assistant Coach CJ Gillman, South Mountain Assistant Coach Tyler Gillum, Wright, Stealbases.com and Wright State Assistant coach Matt Talarico, ORU Head Coach Ryan Folmar and Oklahoma State's James Vilade. CJ Gillman on getting one percent better in BP every day AND we even touch on bunting…(1:30-32:36) Tyler Gillum on the Growth Toolbox, infield play, and a little bit of green light special (32:40-56:00) Matt Talarico on all things base running (56:06-1:17) Ryan Folmar on building culture in your program (1:17-1:25) James Vilade on a coaches number one job. (1:25-1:34)

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   8 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Best of 2021: Robin Lund

   Bio Born in Northern Alberta, Canada in an area where there is very little baseball, his parents let him move to Lewiston, ID when he was in the 9th grade and live with a host family and play high school baseball. He then played at Spokane Falls Community College and  Whitworth University After playing he coached at Spokane Falls CC for 4 years working with hitters and outfielders and  also serving as the S&C coach. During that time, he got His Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Eastern Washington University. Robin then got out of coaching and pursued a PhD and While working on it, he was Ed Cheff’s S&C coach at Lewis Clark State College. Robin completed his degree in 2002 and landed a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Kinesiology in cedar falls Iowa. After 18 years, he got back into coaching and became the volunteer assistant for the University of Northern Iowa softball team in the Fall of 2018 and then in January of 2019 he took a job at the university of Iowa,  where he started as the hitting coach and then became the pitching coach in the Fall of 2020. On the show, we go over player assessments, developing motor learning plans, and blending the art and science of coaching. Time stamps 3:50 - Player Assessments 16:00- Blending art and science of coaching 18:30- Motor Learning Plans for pitchers 25:27- Motor learning plans for hitters 33:30- Using in game data for pitchers 37:00- Using in game data for hitters 43:30- Gameplanning 45:00- Pre-pitch routines 46:45- Post Game reports 50:30- Simplifying data 55:30- Quick Hitters Resources Motus Sleeve Trent Otis Google sheets/Pivot tables Functional Movement Screen Frans Bosch

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   1 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Best of 2019: Peter Fatse

   iTunes Stitcher Google Spotify During this episode of Ahead of the Curve, I interviewed Peter Fatse, MiLB Hitting Coordinator for the Minnesota Twins. Peter shares a wealth of information about how to execute decision training, ways to remain competitive during training, the importance of building an adjustable swing, and techniques to implement individualized training for players. Episode Highlights: How did Peter Fatse get involved in baseball coaching? What should we focus on in the off-season? What questions does he ask players to address deeper learning? What does an average week of training look like? How do we train an adjustable swing? What are some ways that he trains for decision training? How do they like to compete during training? What are the things that Peter looks for that he thinks that really good players do? How does Peter issue a plan that maximizes individual development in a team environment? Is there something that Peter Fatse has learned lately that has him really excited? What is something that his players do in training that they love? What is something that Peter believes that other coaches may disagree with? What are things done during Peter’s training that would stand out to people? What are some of Peter Fatse’s favorite books and resources that have benefited his coaching? 3 Key Points: Be honest about your weaknesses, strengths, and areas of development. Adjustability swings are a trait of elite hitters. Stay open-minded to learn from various other people. Tweetable Quotes: “We have a lot of information. But you have to be hungry to apply it and you have to be hungry to learn and dig in for yourself, because, ultimately, it is your career.” – Peter Fatse (02:49) “Make a realistic evaluation of your previous year and really take the time to look and say, ‘what are the attributes that I possess that right now are strengths for me?’” – Peter Fatse (04:06) “When I think about competitive design, there are two ways that we as hitters compete, the internal and the external.” – Peter Fatse (21:48) “When I have guys in the training center, one of the first questions I will ask is, ‘are you right-handed or left-handed?’” – Peter Fatse (30:05) “A lot of the times, the drill passages, from a bat path perspective would change depending upon their dominant hand and then ultimately, how the barrel created early excerration.” – Peter Fatse (30:10) “Be able to utilize bat and ball information to create a plan, because the ball, ultimately, is going to give us the best depiction of what is happening.” – Peter Fatse (32:57) “Every player’s career is extremely important, especially to myself and the rest of the staff.” – Peter Fatse (34:26) “I think you want to kind of look to layer on stress so that when a guy gets to the game, the idea is more about execution and they are not worried about being prepared anymore.” – Peter Fatse (40:45) Resources Mentioned: Ahead of the Curve Podcast Twitter: @AOTC_podcast Peter Fatse: Twitter  Instagram

Inside a recent episode

Best of 2019: CJ Gillman, Tyler Gillum, Matt Talarico, Ryan Folmar, James Vilade.

Published 15 Aug 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] He's probably having a tough day. But it's like, he's like, I'm gonna do this whatever it might be. And it's like something that I would never say. And try to encourage a kid to do. But it's like, if that works, that's a real thing. Like, it's not smoke and mirrors. Like belief is a massively powerful tool. So the idea as a coach being like, get your players to buy in, get your players to coach players. I think that's massively important. And getting players to adopt your beliefs as their own ideas. Like, let them come to those conclusions. And hopefully you, you know, guardrail, you know, bumpers in a bowling alley, get them kind of down the lane. […]

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• Greg Brown
• Chase Lambin
• Joe Espada
• George Lombard
• Andrew Wright

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4.8 / 5

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