Kobata clinic

[Mike]

I am impressed with his dvd's, I incorporate them into our practices with great success. I am now looking at hosting a clinic in our area, I have only heard of a couple of bad reviews compared to many many good ones. I am assuming some of the players were not ready for his intense teaching stlye. My question is, what can I expect, how intense is it, does he conform to each age group, if you had a bad expierence what was it.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[obbay]

there's some info here
http://www.discussfastpitch.com/softball-discussions/832-howard-kobota.html
starts out talking about the DVDs but they get into the clinics a little bit too.

 

[SBFAMILY]

Plan on sweating ! The DVD's don't even come close to one of his clinics in teaching drills. After my 6'th page of notes , I gave up. You are better off filiming it. He is so intense and goes so fast hard to take notes. He is a little rough at times, but he has good intent. I had told the kids that attended his clinic what to expect. So When he yelled at my DD in Russian about something she did wrong it was funny. The younger ages do struggle, but so can the older ones if they have bad skills.