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    Favorite Games at Practice

    With Spring practice starting back up, I thought it would be fun to start a thread with everyone's favorite games. What is your go-to game during practice? What game do your girls like best? What is your favorite hitting game, fielding game, throwing game, etc.?
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    Should a parent tell a HC of potential team problems?

    Some do, some don't....My experience observing some of the mom drama surrounding my kids sports/friends tells me that the 'being included/excluded drama" transfers from the moms (and dads)to their kids very quickly.
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    Interference or obstruction

    I agree. Batter should be out.
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    First Lesson Tonight...

    Little League. I will say this however. I've had the same core of 6-7 great, athletic girls for 2 years now, and this will be our third (first year with kid pitch). After the spring season, and getting accustomed to actual pitching, we'll be taking this core and forming a club team. So, rec...
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    First Lesson Tonight...

    Glad to see I'm not the only one! Was talking with the dad of one of my players (not a girl that wants to pitch) last night and he asked how the pitching lesson went. I told him "It went...ok..." He instantly started cracking up, and said "the look of horror on your face when you said "ok" was...
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    First Lesson Tonight...

    I agree. The reason for the group lesson is that I'm the head coach for DD's team. We're moving from machine pitch to kid pitch starting in spring, and have ZERO girls on the team that have pitched before. This was more of an "establish a base for the girls interested in pitching." Might do...
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    First Lesson Tonight...

    Absolutely, and I'll definitely bring that up next lesson.
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    First Lesson Tonight...

    First lesson went well. Mostly worked on set-up, release point, glove-hand action, etc. At one point, DD told the instructor "my dad has been having me lead with the pinky..." Instructor had a slightly confused look, but didn't really say anything as she wasn't really going into that level of...
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    First Lesson Tonight...

    Pretty excited...taking my daughter and 3 other girls to their first pitching lesson tonight. Start our first season of kid-pitch in the spring, so hoping to get a little bit of a jump on the pitching aspect! I've been working with my daughter a bit in the front yard, trying to go over some of...
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    Drills for 3rd base

    A ball, a glove, and a brick wall!
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    Classless or part of the Game?

    2 years ago, I built my team from Cheerleaders. My daughter was doing cheer in the fall as one of her many sports that she does. I was looking at the squad, saying, "these girls are athletes! How many of you want to play softball this Spring?" Only my daughter and 1 other girl had played...
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    Classless or part of the Game?

    Was at my nephew's game the other day. Opposing team was making noise right as the pitcher was making his delivery. Ump gave the bench a warning, and it stopped right there. He told them cheer your team on, but slam the bench during the pitch, and I'll send you packing.
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    letting kids play other sports

    Wow, this thread went from interesting topic, to....something! lol. I think it's important for kids (girls especially) to play mulitple sports. So many things out there that they're not typically introduced to. They'll never know what they'll fall in love with. Also help against over-use...
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    What Dynamic or Static Stretches do you do?

    Before we throw, I have my girls do the stretches that start on page 6 of the link below. We follow that up with a set of good slow push-ups, and the blood is now flowing! http://www.udptclinic.com/journalclub/sojc/09_10/Nov09/Active%20Warmup%20George.pdf
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    Allister Departing Minnesota for Stanford

    Is she taking most of her staff with her?
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    How do you teach them to catch a ball? (Rec League)

    I second this 100%! My son is in T-ball. Was doing ok for a 4 year old, but you know how it is... He got the velcro disk for easter, and was snagging everything I through to him. I was pretty amazed. It helped him a lot when we were playing with it a lot, got busy, stopped playing with the...
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    The Ethics of Softball. Your Input.

    We always had a code. It would change often, but as an example, if you saw a curve ball called, you'd use their number. Fastball was last name. "Send it for a Ride, 24!" Or "Send it for a Ride, Johnson!" Mostly, so that we wouldn't tip off the other team when we were on to their signs...
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    UCLA vs LSU Obstruction Call

    Sometimes, we let the wording of rules override common sense. In this case, the defense made a great play. Ball beat her by several steps, and she was tagged out. Yet, the defense was punished for making a great play. Bad call, IMO
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    Thoughts on DD's swing

    I think that cue is fine, and use it myself with a lot of my girls that want to have everything moving forward at the same time. Currently, in her load/stride, she is moving her hands back with her leg kick, and then letting them come forward as she strides. A good way to explain it to her is...
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    Thoughts on DD's swing

    Looks like a pretty solid swing. One thing that stuck out to me was the timing of her stride. It looks like she may be striding late. Her hips are already starting to open up, and her hands are coming forward by the time her front foot is planted. Getting that sequence down should help.

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