Fundamental Youth Baseball Coaching Tips!
Getting young players to keep their attention span at a high level is always a challenge for the youth baseball coach.
My Suggestion is to incorporate a games type scenario into your practices.
Heres is a great game you can use to keep your players practicing at their peak.
1st run some ground ball drills maybe cross field throws and after a while stop the practice and tell the players you are going to make it a friendly competition!!
Here is the game: get 6 players on ea side defense is pitcher, catcher, 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base, and shortstop. Offense is 6 base runners, put them behind home plate and tell everyone you are going to hit ground balls at the defense and their objective is to get the runner out at 1st. Award a point when they get the runner out. After the play is over have the runner come back to home and get back in line.
Continue on with this drill go thru the defense 2-3 times and then switch sides.
Now continue on with this game. once you have done this again with the other team you can put a runner on 1st and run the same game but now they have the option of trying to get lead runner and then on to 1st possibly for the double play.
This is just 1 example of how to keep it interesting for your players. The main Secret for coaching youth baseball is to keep in exciting so you have the players focus the entire time you with them!!
Remember bottom line Keep it fun!
One of the reasons i am able to coach youth baseball is because I have home based business on the Internet which gives me the freedom to have a flexible Schedule.
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