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 Division 1 baseball, coached championship high school programs, scouted for a major league club and spent thousands of hours in college strength rooms. 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
- Rip City Athlete Portal
- Our own tracking platform, in development: habits, body weight, weight moved and speed
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
Bookings run through the front desk right now. Call or text and we will get you in.