Good Afternoon All,
While college softball has started, and the long journey into darkness finally behind us as pitchers and catchers report down in FL and AZ, rec league practice is still at least a month away for most of us.
This season we'll still be using coach pitch, but with the girls now being the catcher. I have an idea of what I want to teach them, but wanted to see what the rest of you are teaching, and how you go about it.
1. What do you consider the basic skills?
2. How do you teach them? (drills, correct what you can during the course of a regular practice, send them to clinics, special "coach and catcher" time before/after practice, etc.)
Thanks in advance for your input.
--Gags
While college softball has started, and the long journey into darkness finally behind us as pitchers and catchers report down in FL and AZ, rec league practice is still at least a month away for most of us.
This season we'll still be using coach pitch, but with the girls now being the catcher. I have an idea of what I want to teach them, but wanted to see what the rest of you are teaching, and how you go about it.
1. What do you consider the basic skills?
I guess you could even break this down even further into:
- What basic skill should they have before you even let them get behind the plate?
- What are the basic skills you plan / expect to teach them?
2. How do you teach them? (drills, correct what you can during the course of a regular practice, send them to clinics, special "coach and catcher" time before/after practice, etc.)
Thanks in advance for your input.
--Gags