After reading Cannonball post about school ball and the parts about their trophy case and many better off not playing school ball got me doing some self analysis. What makes me have such anti school coach stance. So I started analyzing my likes and large amount of dislikes and where they come from. After asking many questions and answering them in my head I came up with two things, knowledge and source of knowledge.
Little story/background/rambling. With a lot of shortcomings in DD first t ball coach, RH step with right foot to throw. Nxt yr I AC on team, inherited a rec team. Coached rec, DD picked up here there in TB. Another coach/parent approached me about starting a 10u tb team. DD gets into pitching. I take her as far as I can. Someone suggests PC x. Ok I see some things improve some goes backwards. I strart researching and come up with this site learning new terms HE,IR,ROTATIONAL VS LINEAR HITTING etc. IR brings up who teaches this. Local friend gives me name. I Google it and wow it brings me back to this site where he is mentioned several times in Postive light. DD takes lessons and the improvement begins and find out he is also member on here.
Now this brings me to my hypothesis: demographics of this site.
The majority on here are people seeking to learn some aspect of SB and contributers who have been there done that and share their results.
Knowledge seekers
These are parents, parent/coaches of rec low TB. Then same grouping just up a level, repeat.
Main contributers
High level TB, private instructors both producing results.
What I perceive is there are few HS coaches on here compared to non school coaching.
This makes me "assume" my local school coaches think theirs is the only way and correct way, so why have i invested so much research, downloaded so many gifs and vids from here since HE and bug squishing is correct. Why have I put so many $'s and time in pc lessons and working on hitting with her when it's all incorrect by the assumption of the school coach that dfp is wrong. All parents, rec/tb, and school coaches are on here to help these young ladies get better. But we keeping running into naysayers. Yes there are good school, rec, tb coaches and it seems most are on this site.
So I guess I unloaded my thoughts and have some isues to work out. I would like to know the demographics of this site. Is there a way to poll and break it down.
1. School coach
2. Tb coach
3. Rec coach
4. Parent coach
5. Parent
6. Private instructors
Little story/background/rambling. With a lot of shortcomings in DD first t ball coach, RH step with right foot to throw. Nxt yr I AC on team, inherited a rec team. Coached rec, DD picked up here there in TB. Another coach/parent approached me about starting a 10u tb team. DD gets into pitching. I take her as far as I can. Someone suggests PC x. Ok I see some things improve some goes backwards. I strart researching and come up with this site learning new terms HE,IR,ROTATIONAL VS LINEAR HITTING etc. IR brings up who teaches this. Local friend gives me name. I Google it and wow it brings me back to this site where he is mentioned several times in Postive light. DD takes lessons and the improvement begins and find out he is also member on here.
Now this brings me to my hypothesis: demographics of this site.
The majority on here are people seeking to learn some aspect of SB and contributers who have been there done that and share their results.
Knowledge seekers
These are parents, parent/coaches of rec low TB. Then same grouping just up a level, repeat.
Main contributers
High level TB, private instructors both producing results.
What I perceive is there are few HS coaches on here compared to non school coaching.
This makes me "assume" my local school coaches think theirs is the only way and correct way, so why have i invested so much research, downloaded so many gifs and vids from here since HE and bug squishing is correct. Why have I put so many $'s and time in pc lessons and working on hitting with her when it's all incorrect by the assumption of the school coach that dfp is wrong. All parents, rec/tb, and school coaches are on here to help these young ladies get better. But we keeping running into naysayers. Yes there are good school, rec, tb coaches and it seems most are on this site.
So I guess I unloaded my thoughts and have some isues to work out. I would like to know the demographics of this site. Is there a way to poll and break it down.
1. School coach
2. Tb coach
3. Rec coach
4. Parent coach
5. Parent
6. Private instructors