Pitching Accuracy Game
Purpose: This game helps your pitcher work on accuracy and understanding when he starts aiming the ball. The second purpose of this game is for your catcher and pitcher to work on communication. Equipment: Catcher [...]
Athlete Development Blueprint
The key ingredient to working with pre-adolescent and early adolescent athletes is providing global stimulation from a movement perspective. Younger athletes must experience and eventually perfect, a variety of motor skills in order to ensure [...]
Practice Efficiency
Always have a Written Plan prepared in advance, with time periods stated for each activity and defined assignments for each adult participating. Early on this will take some time, however as the season progresses a [...]
Managing Playing Time
My philosophy has always been that the kids I coach get a lot of playing time. Although all of my kids played some "select sports", in general I think that the philosophy is screwed up [...]
The Commercialization of Youth Sports
What has happened to kids sports? “A $19.2 billion market in the US means the youth sports market rivals the size of the $15 billion NFL,” says a December 2019 report from Dublin’s GlobeNewswire. Totaling [...]
Wiffle Ball Hitting Drills
It is often said that good coaching produces skilled players. The better the coaching, the further players will go. The key to developing great player skills is knowing how to perform drills that will not [...]