Youth Baseball & Softball Instruction Simplified
- Demystifying How to Teach the Game to Kids -
The Baseball Positive Website Is For…
Coaches: Reduce planning time. Gain confidence that your kids will ‘get it’. Instruction that players can translate to their performance on the field.
Leagues: A one-stop resource for your coaches. Create better quality of play across your organization. Increase player retention.
Parents: Activities and Drills to with do at with your kids; improve their confidence and increase their passion for playing the game.
Softball: The Baseball Positive website is geared for the 12u level of play. All content is applicable to the youth level of Softball.
The Process
What do we teach first? - building a foundation
Sequence of adding skills, drills, and approach to instruction
Recognizing what will go wrong, and how to make fixes
Coach Kids More Effectively
Communicate at their level
Coaching based on the capabilities of younger bodies and minds
Step-by-step, building block approach for teaching skills, running drills, and coordinated team play
Thoughts to Ponder
How is game on the small diamond different from the game on the large diamond? What modifications in coaching are needed?
Does the order in which skills and concepts are taught really matter?
How do we define ‘Fun’? (Hint: constant activity…)
--- It’s not what We Know, it’s what They Understand ---
Novice and beginner coaches (and parents): great knowledge and experience is not needed to teach the game at the kids level. The Baseball Positive website gives you everything you need. Your only requirement is a love of kids and desire to see them have a great experience playing the game.
Coaches with experience at higher levels (HS, college, pro) is not a guarantee for success working with kids. It is easy to unconsciously talk over their heads, and use terminology they don’t understand. The Baseball Positive website helps identify which info to put out there, and what to hold onto.
Come inside and discover how coaching youth baseball and softball can be easy, enjoyable, and fulfilling.
