(FYI, posted in parents forum as well) hold a practice in an indoor facility where the parents are "not invited" into the facility (10u team)? indoor facility is warehouse in a light industrial center. Team does hitting work at this facility, there is a cage, and several other stations (trunk rotation, bottom hand tee work, tee work, bunting station with soft toss, etc.). Team has had several practices already here, parents milled about or brought chairs in. last practice there, also had a couple of guest players who were going to join us for tournament that weekend (practice was thursday, tournament got rained out), and a lot of siblings, other kids. I think this is why the change (ie parents no longer invited in), several of the kids were pretty rowdy, flinging balls across pool table there, messing with one training tool (almost like a heavy bag on a directional swivel, for developing power I guess).
other things I am not happy about:
have one girl at plate, rest of team lined up along 3rd base line, girl at plate is trying to lay down bunt, rest of team is squaring up to pitch as well?
have ALL girls line up at home, and one by one have them run to first, each time through line varying slightly ( run through, turn, turn and back, turn and go)?
for the entire rest of practice (other than 10 minutes of throwing as warmups) have 6-7 girls in field, coach pitches to a batter, after about 15-20 pitches batter runs, then they play situational as the runners move. once runner comes home second time, they go out in field, another fielder comes in.
given all the above, then, when girls get inattentive/restless/talkative, they talk about "we can just run instead". what do they expect when girls are standing around most of the time, or squaring up to bunt 50+ times in a row?
other things I am not happy about:
have one girl at plate, rest of team lined up along 3rd base line, girl at plate is trying to lay down bunt, rest of team is squaring up to pitch as well?
have ALL girls line up at home, and one by one have them run to first, each time through line varying slightly ( run through, turn, turn and back, turn and go)?
for the entire rest of practice (other than 10 minutes of throwing as warmups) have 6-7 girls in field, coach pitches to a batter, after about 15-20 pitches batter runs, then they play situational as the runners move. once runner comes home second time, they go out in field, another fielder comes in.
given all the above, then, when girls get inattentive/restless/talkative, they talk about "we can just run instead". what do they expect when girls are standing around most of the time, or squaring up to bunt 50+ times in a row?
In any case, unless there are liability issues in the warehouse, you really can't bar them.
