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The 4 Stages of Motor Learning (and How Baseball Flows Takes You to #4)
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October 13, 2025
Athletic Development 101: Baseball Flows™ Newsletter
Flows Family,
🧠 The 4 Stages of Motor Learning — and Why Fall Training Matters Most
At CatcherCON 2024, Dr. Gallo broke down something every parent and coach should understand:
The 4 stages of motor learning.
Here’s how it works 👇
1️⃣ Unconscious Incompetence — You don’t know what you don’t know (the player is unaware of key movement deficits).
2️⃣ Conscious Incompetence — The player begins to see the flaws (movement feels awkward; they’re aware of what’s wrong).
3️⃣ Conscious Competence — They can move well, but only when focused.
4️⃣ Unconscious Competence — Movement becomes automatic and fluid.
That final stage — Unconscious Competence — is where the magic happens.
It’s what we call Flow.
And that’s exactly what our Fall Flows program is built to develop.
⚾️ Why Fall Is the Key Season for Flow
If a player doesn’t train proper movement patterns in the fall, they’ll carry flawed patterns into spring.
Baseball Flows helps players build clean, efficient movement through developmental motor patterns — the same patterns we learned as kids (crawling, walking, rolling, rotating).
By training these neural pathways now, players learn to:
✅ Move efficiently and powerfully
✅ Stay athletic under pressure
✅ Let their body respond, not overthink
When spring comes, the best movers Flow — everyone else is still trying to “think” their way through the game.
👇 Train Smarter This Fall
Ingrain clean movement now to Flow this spring.
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Let's train smarter, move better, and flow in the game.
Best Regards,
Dr. Ismael Gallo DPT, MBA
Founder, Baseball Flows