In all the years I have coached I have never had a team quite like the one I have now. It is Juniurs Level LL But about 5 of my players could play Travel ball, The rest of them have never played before so getting them all "in the groove" has been hard. They could not even take infield with out about 20 balls , Couldnt play catch, And looked what seemed worse and worse every game. I began haveing real doubts about my ability to coach at all.
I have always had a conditioning type warm up and am a pretty hard disiplinarian. Well if it doesent work try something Right? So last night I had them play a silly little keep away game for 15 minuets as a warm up. Man they were gassed, But giggley and acting plain silly at the end. BUT Batting practice went well wich has been our strong point . Then we did some fielding drills and they looked like a different team. We did some base running stuff and the same siliness ensued. Then we took infield, we only needed one Ball and only made ONE over throw at first.
Our game for tonite was cancelled but I really think things would have been different than most of the year. I lightend up and it did wonders for them. Guess Ill try a little more of that if I Coach any in the future.
I have always had a conditioning type warm up and am a pretty hard disiplinarian. Well if it doesent work try something Right? So last night I had them play a silly little keep away game for 15 minuets as a warm up. Man they were gassed, But giggley and acting plain silly at the end. BUT Batting practice went well wich has been our strong point . Then we did some fielding drills and they looked like a different team. We did some base running stuff and the same siliness ensued. Then we took infield, we only needed one Ball and only made ONE over throw at first.
Our game for tonite was cancelled but I really think things would have been different than most of the year. I lightend up and it did wonders for them. Guess Ill try a little more of that if I Coach any in the future.