Nathan Hall drums the hot start in Columbia

Nathan Hall knew he was good in baseball. He was just not sure what else he had.

Like most college athletes, the starting center of South Carolina Baseball began playing the game at a young age.

But when it came to the talent show of his primary school? The crowd would not be entertained on stage and throwing a ball around. The show was only open to the fifth graders, and Hall went home after seeing her as a fourth grader. He loved the performance aspect, the showmanship, the entire event.

He only needed a talent.

Fortunately, a gift from his grandfather was the catalyst.

“My father at Christmas happened to bought him out of the blue, one of these small electrical drum pads” Daniel told Gamecockscoop. “He opened it and really seemed to like it.”

A dozen years later, Hall still slips away.

Learning the drums was like everything else. Hall admits that at first he didn't really know what he was doing and only “shattered” when he started.

“It was a little annoying because I wasn't good yet,” Hall said to GameCockscoop. “But it was just fun, and then I wanted to take lessons at that time.”

A year after the lessons began, he found himself back in this talent show and did exactly what he was up to.

“He started taking lessons,” Hall's mother, “Hall's mother Magdalena told Gamecockscoop. “And in the course of the year it was his whole goal to appear in the fifth grade talent show. He was the hit of the show. He carried out a whole compilation of U2 and some other songs. “

Smashing played and played. The rock songs that he heard his father on the guitar or piano at family meetings and public holidays began on the way to his drums, a challenge.

The first of them – Tom Sawyer through rush – was the turning point.

“It was a kind of really difficult song that I learned when I took lessons,” recalled Hall. “It was one of these moments when I could learn this song that I thought: 'I would like to do it for a while.'”

He hasn't stopped since then. Of course, baseball is currently a priority, but he still takes time to play whenever he can. Especially with his father, who still lives in South Carolina and plays himself. Hall holds its drums in his apartment in Columbia. About once a month he meets his father to play. Def Leppard, Billy Joel – Billy's ballad to the child is the favorite of his father – and many other cover.

“There is a cool chemistry that develops,” said Daniel. “Similar to a team sport. If you play music with someone, you can predict what you do. “

Of course it is easy to draw the parallel. They swing a drum stick, they swing a baseball bat. They contact the goal and make a sound. The movements are not exactly the same, but both still require precise timing and mental focus. You can catch a grade wrong and a song will ruin, just as you can roll down with the loaded bases when you hit the end of the bat to a pitch.

“If you learn to make a little reef or a beat, it is one of these things in which you have to think about it first,” said Hall. “But it is repeated so that at some point you have to trust yourself and your limbs will do the same. I think that also applies to the goal. “

He switched to a crowded outdoor field with a new team of coaches. The talent was obvious, but his college baseball life was thin. Hall played in Clemson in two years in two years in two years and had only 96 college bats to his name when he arrived in Columbia.

His relationship with the former Clemson head coach and current South Carolina hit trainer Monte Lee Was enough to bring him to the door. Lee recruited him and knew what he could do. Throughout the autumn practice, winter training and pre -season -Hall worked to get a place on the squad.

After all, it was obvious that he was not only the best midfielder on the squad, but also the ideal mixture of strength, speed and energy to determine the sound in the order. He deserves enough daily measures in Scrimmages where everything was only muscle memory. After all, he had consistent repetitions to perfect this swing and to gain the repetition he uses in music.

“You work as much as possible,” said Hall. “You think about what you have to do with your swing, and then just let it happen. You trust your body to do what he has to do. “

Just like drumming.

Hall's start as a Gamecock was noteworthy. The Clemson Transfer started all nine games in the Center Field, steps on a blister .433, has already heard twice and is tied to the team leader with 10 RBIs.

“I look at him and see a future Major Leaguer,” head coach Paul Mainieri said. “I had some really good players in my coaching career, and Nathan has the skills of being right with one of them.”

He is not the first player to cross the bridge in the most intense rivalry of College Baseball, but his immediate success as a GameCock will make him a flashpoint figure of the 2025 series.

“It was one of these situations in which I really had to put my feelings aside and find out what was best for me,” said Hall. “These trainers support me and see the kind of players I am. I am so grateful to be here. “

Since South Carolina (9-0) is preparing for his annual rivalry series against Clemson this weekend, Hall will be in the middle of itself. The former tiger will almost surely take the first bat of the series on Friday evening, undoubtedly to a choir of Boos in the baseball, which he once called at home.

But as soon as this first pitch flies, it will be back in his comfort zone.

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