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    Cost per game?

    Most single day tournaments are 500 or more this season, which puts our organization out based on several things. We have an organization near us that does 3 team round robins on one field for $150. Those tournaments are more fun, less serious. A four team so you could be guaranteed 3 games...
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    Drills for improving posture

    My dd has a bad habit of leaning forward a little while pitching. What tips or drills does anyone have to help get rid of this? She is 12, moving up to 14u next year and has been injured alot the last couple years but hopefully has turned the corner from that.
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    Playing time and competitiveness vs age. Thoughts?

    The program my kids are in is through the community ed dept at their schoole to n a small town, we do not have big numbers in softball once school ball starts which is in 7th grade. The team I coached this year was mostly 2nd year 12u player going into 7th grade with 2 8th graders and 1 new to...
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    new jersey town forces argumentative parents to be little league umpires

    Interesting point, but either way it should not be completely off the table
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    Team pitching practices

    (Big Sigh) the parents here dont seem to get it. I have one girl who wants to pitch and enjoy it but needs alot of work. I showed mom one thing she was doing that needed to be watched and worked on and mom kind of shrugged it off as her not knowing anything about pitching or softball and...
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    new jersey town forces argumentative parents to be little league umpires

    As much as nobody wants to: give one warning and after that eject the kid along with the parent. Kid comes back next game, parent misses several games. If you dont you will deal with it all season, do that once with one parent and it would stop immediately. Most of these that are really over the...
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    Team pitching practices

    I am helping coach a local 12u softball team in what is mostly a volleyball small town, so for most kids softtball takes a back seat to volleyball. We struggle with pitching, right now many of the girls are still on the fence about pitching where they want to pitch, bit have not taken the step...
  8. J

    Obstruction timing

    Is obstruction called immediately? Or does it depends on the outcome of the play? If they are obstructed in a run down and end up safe at another base is it dead?
  9. J

    First base safety bag/obstruction/runners lane

    Ground ball, pitcher toss to 1b, 1b juggles the ball as the runner is coming in and backs up awkwardly almosst falling, she has a foot on the far foul side of the runners first base, and is streached towards second base, completely blocking the base. The runner slowed and almost stopped and...
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    1st year 14 u team development

    A little more detail: Of the 11 on the softball roster 10 play club volleyball and school volleyball. School volleyball is august-nov club is late jan-early may. School softball starts practicing in mid march and ends in late may, summer ball starts early jume and runs until mid July, fall...
  11. J

    1st year 14 u team development

    posted in the coaching forum, but it has not gotten any resonses so Ill try here: My Daughter is on a 14u team in our local league. We have a pitcher that is one of the stronger ones in the league, and a group of athletic girls, but almost all of them have volleyball as a higher priority than...
  12. J

    14u team development

    I am helping with my daughters first year 14u local league team, and not sure how to best develop them. They can hit lower level pitchers and are competitive locally, but struggle against quality pitching. They need better mechanics and better hitting and pitching strategies that is above my...
  13. J

    Team Rules~No player/parent interaction at the ballpark

    I have one girl on my team who is very talented, amazing attitude, thinks brilliantly at game speed at 9yo and is very very well composed. When I had a conversation with mom about her pitching mechanics mom who played at a high level herself didn’t know anything about why they had changed, just...
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    Team Rules~No player/parent interaction at the ballpark

    In my case I am the coach, and normally that would be best to keep the team coach and parents/pitching coaches on the same page but lets be realistic here, most people do not communicate that well. I could not even get my kids parents to tell me when they were going to miss a game let alone talk...
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    Team Rules~No player/parent interaction at the ballpark

    So at what point is this policy disclosed ? At tryouts? Before the first tournament? Weather I like it really doesn’t mean jack, weather a potential player likes it, and will play better under it is the issue. MY biggest concern as a parent is did I know what I was getting the kid into soon...
  16. J

    Team Rules~No player/parent interaction at the ballpark

    I see so many parents yelling way to many directions at kids it confuses the crap out of them and is negative most of the time. Once in a while there are exceptions to that though my youngest has a few bad habits that are mostly removed but occasionally come back. A two word reminder will...
  17. J

    Can I Make the HS JV Team with Almost No Prior Experience?

    Also, if you dont make the team, dont stop playing. As long as you are having fun keep playing somewhere
  18. J

    Run-Rule BLOWOUTS IN COLLEGE BALL

    I dont have the foggiest idea how college recruiting works! Not much to add First I thought recruiting, or is it just different scheduling? Are they teams that just shouldn’t be playing each other? Homework Rad: Think of the last handfull of blowouts you speak of and look up history that is...
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    Run-Rule BLOWOUTS IN COLLEGE BALL

    Maybe not so much giving up, but just playing better with a lead and some confidence. Or not playing their best when down. My point is that this trait is stronger with young people now, both ways. What I have seen that makes me believe that could easily be a separate thread. One brief example A...
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    Run-Rule BLOWOUTS IN COLLEGE BALL

    Fair enough question. Partially (almost completely) a guess simply because I watch little to no ncaa softball (although I should try to watch more) partially an observation after watching the my kids at 11 and 13 in their endevors in volleyball, softball and other sports combined with working in...

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