Coaching Tips for Youth Baseball – Fear of the Ball and The Talk Ball
When you're working with younger and/or first time players you have many areas to cover besides teaching skills. One of the most frequent is "fear of the ball".
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Coaching Youth Baseball – Warm-Up Drill & Throwing Tip
My favorite baseball warm-up drill at the start of practice is to have half the players at the pitchers mound (for 8U) or at the short stop position (for 10U)
How to Teach or Correct Batting Stance
I noticed after looking at pictures and videos of my players last season that alot of them had all kinds of different batting stances. Some looked good and some just
Coaching T-Ball Tip – How to Keep Their Attention
With 4-year-olds, the greatest challenge is getting everyone to pay attention and not horse around. I have found that you have to constantly interact with the players to accomplish this,
Fun Baseball Drills – COACH SAYS Drill & GLOVE SIDE Drill
These are two fun baseball drills I use with my younger players a lot. They enjoy these and forget that they are practicing drills. They're great for teamwork as
Youth Baseball Baserunning Drill – Running 1 through 4
This is one of my favorites for youth baseball coaching and I don't see other teams doing in our league. It is a simple base running drill that I call
Youth Baseball Practice Drills – Face the Base & Fielding & Hitting Drill
Try these two youth baseball practice drills to help you assess your players skills at the start of the season and then to help them with their fielding and throwing
Fear of the Ball Drill
When I was coaching youth baseball I started doing this to help the coach pitch kids (ages 6-7) get use to catching above their head. My hopes are to
Youth Baseball Fielding Drills – Tennis Baseball Drill
I have never seen another coach use a tennis ball and Racquet like I do to teach outfield skills.I have played a lot of tennis in my day and have
Nerf Ball Catch and Foam Bat Hitting Drill
Let's face it, coaching youth baseball has it's own set of challenges. Playing catch is an advanced skill for the vast majority of 5 and 6 year olds. To me,
Basic Skills & Visualization Drill
For coaching youth baseball I like to reinforce basic skills as well as use a visualization drill for the mental aspect of the game. The practice drill allows all
Coaching Youth Baseball – Team Captains & Communication
As I'm coaching youth baseball, to keep their attention and make practice important to my players (7yrs -9yrs old), I select team captains and give them a job that would
Training for Baseball – Youth Training Drills
One of the many challenges in coaching youth baseball is training for baseball. With kids you can meet this challenge by keeping the drills fun and often competitive. By
T-Ball Coaching Tips – Fear of the Baseball
Here are some T-ball coaching tips that I’ve been doing with my T-ball teams. I’ve been coaching 4, 5, and 6 year olds for the last couple of years and