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    hitting or defense?

    good insight from all here. we are a coach pitch team. I try to keep it pretty balanced but i try to really emphiasise throwing and catching. They get so tired of hearing elbows up, watch youre feet etc.... Try to keep situations fairly simple throw ahead of runner most outs are forces at third...
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    hitting or defense?

    Just wanted a good friendly debate. Coaching 8u again this year, which do you think is most important hitting or defense?
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    7-year-old girl kicked off baseball team

    Sounds like this coach is in it for the wrong reasons, and if he were in my rec league he would be dismissed immediatly. What a jackwagon!!!!!!
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    8u practice and drills

    good stuff ya'll thought I'd use like a 2 liter bottle or a milk jug for ease or maybe a big stuffed animal
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    8u practice and drills

    great advice guys the throwing drills are pretty much exactly how I start every practice. This is rec league, so we get a mix, about 7 of my 11 players have been together for 3 previous seasons so that helps. Love the water bottle idea going to use that one. One thing I do with catching is toss...
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    8u practice and drills

    Wow there is some really knowedgable folks on here. Coaching 8u this year. Have 7 players returning that I've coached or been assistant for 3 previous years. All started in kindergarten together. Anyways just wondered how you guys lay out practice at this age always trying to learn and see what...
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    teaching a 7 year old timing

    help my dd all of a sudden late on the ball choking up a little seems to help I think it is a mental thing she started out the year fine but the last couple weeks is late on everything I let her try a lighter bat in practice but still late not as late but still down the 1st base line everytime...
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    Proper Catching

    As an 8 coach I disagree with this we don't use the softee ball like a 6u team and we've had one victim this year. Poor kid was scared of ball before now she is mortified it was a bloody mess. Happened during warm ups so she missed game. Problem still not fixed if anything worse now shes jumps...
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    u6 tips

    great advice everyone. For the first couple practices we have some soft kind of foam balls we'll use for throwing, that way if one of the new girls gets hit in the head it won't make her scared of the ball for life. Probally hit off the tee the first practice to get them used to holding the bat...
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    u6 tips

    Howdy ya'll this is my first year coaching softball I was an assistant last year with our 6 u team and will be the head coach this year. Just wanted to see if anyone had any tips or ideas to help me do a better job. I know a good bit about the game mostly the fundamentals from the baseball I...
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    Increasing rec ball registration

    You are right the most important thing is the bonds you make at this level. We are pretty much modified t ball we use a softer ball and the 4 pitches format we just let both teams bat around twice. we do try to get outs (or at least the better coaches emphisis it) We mainly focus on fun and...
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    Increasing rec ball registration

    woo hoo my first post. we are having the same problem here, we have only one 10 year old whose signed up and no 12s. We have a about 12 each for 8u and 6u teams. Spring soccer and travel ball are killing us. I've just got involved with softball we started a 6u program last yearand it was awesome...

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