Two hours on days off from school — and often two camps in a day, so kids can stay for four. All-skills, hitting, pitching and catching. They almost always sell out, so book early.
Two hours, indoors, on the days school is closed. Institute days, teacher conferences, the long weekends where nobody knows what to do with a nine-year-old who wants to be moving.
We often run two camps back to back on the same day, on different subjects. Book both and your player gets four hours — hitting in the morning, catching after lunch, or whatever the pairing happens to be.
The whole game in two hours — throwing, hitting, defense and baserunning. The right one if you are not sure which to pick.
Two focused hours on the swing — path, direction and contact quality, at a rep count you cannot get anywhere else.
Mechanics, arm care and a delivery they can repeat, scaled to age and where they are now.
Receiving, blocking, footwork and throwing. The position with the most to learn and the fewest places to learn it.
New for this season, we are adding camps built specifically around our Pelotero AI system. Not part of every camp — these are their own thing, and they come in two forms.
Swings analysed by the system rather than assessed by eye. Players leave with a read on what their swing is actually doing and one specific thing to work on.
A full run through Pelotero’s Universal Rating System. A number you can track against yourself over time, and a straight answer about where a player stands right now.
Your player will walk out better than they walked in. That part we are confident about — two focused hours with a coach and a lot of reps does real work.
But the value is not in the two hours. It is in what they do with them afterwards. A kid who takes one thing home from a camp and works on it for three weeks gets more out of it than a kid who does six camps and never picks up a bat in between.
Grab the coach on your way out and ask what your player should be working on. You will get one specific thing rather than a list, in language you can both remember on a Tuesday night in the driveway.
Twenty minutes a day is enough. It is not about volume, it is about the reps happening at all.
Two hours. Long enough for real work, short enough that a young player is still engaged at the end.
Often, yes. We regularly run two camps on the same off day covering different subjects, so a player can book both and be with us for four hours. Check the booking page for what is paired on a given date.
As early as you can. Off day camps almost always sell out, and the popular dates go first.
Not for the all-skills camps. The position camps assume a player already plays that position or wants to start.
No. Camps are open to everyone, and most of the players at any given camp are not on our teams.
A glove, a bat and helmet if they have them, gym shoes or turfs, and a water bottle. Catchers should bring their gear.
Yes. Thanksgiving week and winter break camps run in the same two-hour format. Dates go up on the booking page as they are set.
Summer is a different animal — all day, across a full week, rather than two hours on a day off. Same coaches, a lot more time. Dates and details go up in the spring.
Tell us their age and what they play and we will point you at the right one. If a camp is full, ask — sometimes there is movement.
Gorilla Baseball Academy
958 Corporate Woods Pkwy, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
Mon–Thu 4:00–10:00pm · Fri 4:00–7:00pm · Sat & Sun 10:00am–5:00pm
