There are as many different coaching styles as there are coaches. I’d like to spend a few lines writing about a couple of coaching styles that I see a lot, and give you my opinion of which one I think is ultimately more effective for kids. The two styles...
Category: Coaching
Coaches Needed – YES, You’re Qualified!
I received an urgent phone call one February asking me to coach some 15 & 16-year olds. The league was to return their sign-up money because they had no coach. After I told them NO for the 4th time (hey, I was really busy running a young but substantial company),...
Organization Leads to a Successful Season
As travel baseball becomes more and more the norm at younger ages, many coaches are starting to see the difficulties in running a team. Since many of the players are traveling some distance to practice and play on your team, organization will insure that the player...
Making Practice Fun and Effective
Baseball practice can be, by definition, a chore. In order to perfect game-related skills, players must perform repetitive, sometimes mundane tasks in a quest to build muscle memory and skill. Even so, beware of making practice boring - players who dread practice...
Are We Playing Too Much?
Perhaps you have heard of a concept that leadership and management guru Stephen Covey calls "Sharpening the Saw." While he was aiming this idea to the business world, it has applicability to those who coach and play sports as well. Basically, the concept goes like...
The 20 Most Wasted Minutes in a Baseball Catcher’s Life
It seems that many players and coaches recognize how little time is allocated during practices for baseball catchers to work on their baseball catching skills, like blocking, exchange drills, pickoff throws, and proper handling of passed balls with a throw to the...
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