Does anyone have any good resources, particularly even Youtube or other videos, that can help me show my team the importance of moving to where the batter is likely to hit, etc.? Even like a softball IQ quiz type of situation...
They think/get super annoyed that I'm "always moving them all...
Thanks so much. With so many kids, and so little coaching staff available right now, one goal I have this season is to put way more emphasis upon building stations/structures that let them operate much more autonomously. E.g., to build in defensive dailies and t work that they understand the...
My educator is showing with this post title. :)
Has anyone here has attempted to do a full season, day by day, practice plan? I say this knowing that we always adjust, and that my team’s high school ball looks different than most.
But does anyone have a compressive season long “game plan”...
Thanks so much!! It’s been a blast. All of it. Your idea about watching games makes me think about something I saw our school’s football Coach do this season in an inaugural girls’ flag football team: a before-school morning meeting watching tape/learning plays, so he didn’t have to waste...
You’ve done this a little, haven’t you? ;) Thank you. Awesome tips. And yes! I’ve been taking pitching lessons myself the last two years or so until I can find a pitching coach. It’s addicting/karma for yelling from the outfield my whole career about how “easy” it is. Do you advocate for a...
I feel your pain. I’m also stuck by HS with pretty limited off-season pieces, too. We did Saturday BP and will again. That was pretty important, for sure. Wishing you luck and solidarity in the struggle!!
Hey all, last season was my first at the helm (with a 6 week shortened COVID season).
We…struggled. Strengths: built awesome culture, traditions. Didn’t lose a single player despite losing all games but one. Wasserman’s program led to great gains in team throwing fundamentals Weaknesses: damn...
Create traditions. The HS team I coached this season was awful. Won one. And since our girls rarely play before coming our way at all, I’m likely to be in the same boat for a while to come. But the smartest thing I did this year in the first full season at the helm (2020 doesn’t count) was...
OH, and Wasserman is AWESOME-rman. :) We exclusively use his stuff for throwing, and it's made a HUGE difference in mechanics, even in a silly 6 week COVID season.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I think you and I have certainly followed similar journeys as far as being voracious readers/consumers of any and all info we can get (with similar heroes, too :)). I started w/ the stickies you mentioned on this forum, which was incredibly...
Wondering who coaches have liked the best? I'm thinking long-term, not just for COVID times, but those who'd already had established practices for this, and who are likely to continue virtual coaching (specifically, with one-on-one classes, or at least options for individualized feedback) for...
Aweseome. Thank you! Coached my first season at a school without really any pitching. I tried recruiting pitching coaches, former players, former college teammates, you name it, but kind of knew I needed to get little bit of pitching experience myself (penance for a career of screaming, "JUST...
Video this season absolutely confirmed they do NOT have good basic mechanics. Lol. But it sounds like you would absolutely emphasize I/R over body awareness, etc., for lack of better term? I just ask because in learning myself, I suppose I hammered home I/R pieces for a long, long time...