Huskerdu
With Purpose and Urgency
- Sep 4, 2011
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This is a great topic for me. I coached at the rec level for a few years then my DD wanted to move up to comp with a few other friends on the team, so I combined my girls with the best of another rec team in the area. I played baseball from the age of 8 into the Atlanta Braves organization.
We are having a good time, but I am finding my knowledge and teaching skill is being challenged because I know what it is going to take for these girls to be able to compete at a higher level yet, I am not sure these girls have the skill or the ability to grasp some of the principals we are teaching them. Sadly it is having an effect on my confidence that I can actually coach these girls to play at that higher level. I am not an A type dictator, I believe that life lessons go along with coaching the sport, so I want them to love the game yet challenge themselves beyond the rec mentality
We have the approach of doing drills and repitition yet they still backpeddle on pop flies, they still lunge when they swing, and they are doubled off their base when the other team catches our pop fly.
I know they have the skills and the desire to be better, it is just hard breaking bad habits and what would come natural to them...backpeddling on fly balls after taking three steps forward when the ball is hit.
I want to know what makes a good coach.
We are having a good time, but I am finding my knowledge and teaching skill is being challenged because I know what it is going to take for these girls to be able to compete at a higher level yet, I am not sure these girls have the skill or the ability to grasp some of the principals we are teaching them. Sadly it is having an effect on my confidence that I can actually coach these girls to play at that higher level. I am not an A type dictator, I believe that life lessons go along with coaching the sport, so I want them to love the game yet challenge themselves beyond the rec mentality
We have the approach of doing drills and repitition yet they still backpeddle on pop flies, they still lunge when they swing, and they are doubled off their base when the other team catches our pop fly.
I know they have the skills and the desire to be better, it is just hard breaking bad habits and what would come natural to them...backpeddling on fly balls after taking three steps forward when the ball is hit.
I want to know what makes a good coach.