A room built on evidence
Rip City Academy opened in 2019 to give Berkshire County athletes access to the kind of development that used to require a drive to Boston or a college roster spot.
The premise is simple. An athlete who can see what changed will keep changing. So every part of the building produces information: bat speed and batted-ball data in the cages, spin and movement off the mound, load and velocity on the strength floor.
That information is only useful with people who know what to do with it. The staff here has played and coached Division 1 baseball, worked in college strength and conditioning and athletic training rooms, and holds NSCA and NASM certifications. They are in the building at 6am and they are here after dark.
What has grown out of that is less a facility and more a culture: youth players, high schoolers, college athletes and pros working in the same rooms, pushing each other, tracking the same numbers.
Technology we actually use
Not a logo wall. Each of these produces a number that changes what an athlete does the next week.
- HitTrax
- Swing and batted-ball data on every rep
- Radar guns
- Throwing and pitching velocity tracked session to session
- Driveline
- Pitching modules used at the pro level
- Strength tracking
- Weight moved, speed and testing logged so progress is measured, not guessed
George "Buddy" Pellerin
Founder of Rip City · January 9, 1939 - July 4, 2016
Rip City carries Buddy’s name for the game forward. The standard he set for how you treat players, and how hard you work for them, is still the standard here.
Come see the building
Book online in a couple of taps, or call us and we will get you in.