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Recent Posts Tagged With 'practice'
Southeast Regional Shows How New Pitching Rules Affect the Game
Citrus Park Victorious! A team from Citrus Park Little League in Tampa, Florida just defeated a team from Mobile, Alabama to advance to the Little League World Series . The league has only five majors...
Top Ten Reasons to Practice Pitching
Image via Wikipedia 10. 90% of the game is pitching, the other half is hitting 9. Pitchers have to have their own practices 8. Pitchers must work at home as well as on the field 7. Pitching requires ...
Makes it All Worth it
Image via Wikipedia I had a pitching lesson last night with an eight year old girl that has good core talent. We have been working together off and on for a few months now. In fact, her minor’s...
Final Walk-Through Tomorrow
Image via Wikipedia We’ve worked them until their tongues hung out. We have had shed blood and sweat every night and practice clothes are dirty and stinky. We have swung until we have blisters ...
Individual Training Requested
Image via Wikipedia I am Honored I am honored to announce that today a parent requested that I provide individual training for their child. I will be teaching her pitching and helping to develop her ...
First Day of All-Star Practice
Image by jasonandrewlayne via Flickr Most leagues in the world announced their all-star teams yesterday. While they could have practiced on Sunday I suppose, most, like us, probably held their first ...
What can Tiger Teach Us?
Image via Wikipedia For the two of you out there that haven’t heard, Tiger Woods, with a hobbled knee just out of surgery, obviously in pain, down to his last putt on the final hole to force a ...
Concentration is Key
Image via Wikipedia Great thing happened in our clinic today. We had an end of practice drill where we had to bunt off of a very fast pitching machine . If the batter put the ball in play fair, they ...
An Air of Confidence
Image via Wikipedia As we practiced for our tournament of champions tonight our team had that swagger back. A parent in the stands remarked, "they look good tonight, they are playing with a lot o...
Thank You Little League Moms!
There are not enough kudos to send out to the Little League Mom. She sometimes works all day, runs home and gets dinner on the table, gets the kids to their games an hour early for batting practice an...
Playing Time
Image by Glover Bryant Communications via Flickr Inclusive Little League is inclusive. You don’t have to try out to get into the league , only to balance the talent among the teams. Anyone that...
Quick Play Drill
Image via Wikipedia Quick Play Drill I found this pretty cool "quick play" drill at the Ohio Fastpitch Connection. They have a ton of drills on there, but most of them are not my style, too s...
Get Throws Down at the Knees
Image via Wikipedia Get Your Throws Down When attempting to retire a runner heading to a base, it is very important to get the through down in the "tag range". This is and ofter overlooked m...
Walks Kill
Image by StuSeeger via Flickr We all know that walks are never a good thing , but in Little League they are particularly bad. This was never more true than in the 19-9 trouncing our team major softba...
Must Push Girls To Be Agressive Attacking Fly Balls
Rein in the Boys I spend my entire practice with the minor boys baseball team trying to rein them in! One of the funniest things I have ever seen happen was when our 8U travel ball coach turned aroun...
Good Advice for New Coaches
Coaches Needed! Every year we struggle to fill the coaching vacancies in Little League. This is always inevitably at the lower divisions such as T-ball and Rookie Coach/Machine pitch. These divisions...
Practice Ending Throw Around
You should always end your practice with something that encompasses Running Fun The thing a child remembers about their practice is how they felt when it ended. Therefore, it is very important to en...
Get Their Arm Back First!
More than One Way to Skin a Cat There is a lot of controversy out there about teaching pitching to children. First, there are a number of ways to skin a cat, and I don’t portend to be the end al...
Calm, Comfortable, Confident, Hitting
Tonight we had a small spring break hitting practice. It went fairly well at first, everyone was hitting well and the seven girls that were there were very comfortable. I had to ask a few of them why ...
Pitchers/Catchers Spring Break
It is now spring break. This means that every other team is hanging out at the beach while we practice and gain an advantage on them! Then they wonder why we are better? This gets back to my friend...
Variation of the Around the Horn Drill
Tonight we did a variation of the “around the horn” drill. Everyone has thrown the ball around the horn. While it seems pretty boring, if you get the ball moving fast enough, it can be ver...
It’s All About the Fundamentals!
Teaching kids is actually fairly simple if you break it down to their terms. The problem we adults have is we tend to underestimate the ability of a child to learn and comprehend. I never cease to be ...