Proper Catching

[panthercoach]

Why are you afraid of that? It's actually one of the best things that can happen to a young player. It teaches them to keep their fingertips up, palm pointed towards the ball and it also shows them that coach really does know what he or she is talking about.

As an 8 coach I disagree with this we don't use the softee ball like a 6u team and we've had one victim this year. Poor kid was scared of ball before now she is mortified it was a bloody mess. Happened during warm ups so she missed game. Problem still not fixed if anything worse now shes jumps out of way and does the basket move before she at least would'nt move. A lot of the issues I think are confidence and fear I think a face mask is a great confidence builder if they lose some of the fear feet seem to stay planted