by DBA, www.baseballakademie.de
The German Baseball Academy (Deutsche Baseball Akademie/DBA) held its annual winter training camp “DBA Winterball” from January 6 to 11 at the indoor facilities of the Ahorn Sportpark in Paderborn last weekend. 43 players participated in the training camp. They were coached by the DBA staff of Georg Bull, Sven Huhnholz, Michael Franke, Ulli Wermuth and Udo Happ. Additionally Martin Brunner of the Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg and Jens Hawlitzky of the HSV Stealers helped out.
Two more guest instructors were on hand. Dave Schuler of the Colorado Rockies, who is currently at the DBV Academy, did work with the pitchers. New York Mets minor league catcher and Germany’s current hope for a big leaguer in the near future, Kai Gronauer, took his time to give advice to the four catchers in training camp.
Split into four groups the players worked intensively for three days, doing drills for infield, outfield, pitching and core plus some batting practice. Martin Brunner introduced them to some new strength exercises, which are not only suited for baseball, but also are age appropriate. Overall the training camp is supposed to help the players get new impulses for their regular practice schedule at their home town clubs.
Photos: © Wolfgang Schulz