My Top 10 Baseball Coaching Tips

Written by David Harrison


If you are new torepparttar game search out veteran coaches and ask for coaching tips. Find websites like this one that will teach yourepparttar 133122 fundamentals. What ever you do, always look for new ways to reach your players.

Times are different then when I grew up, and I have found that attention spans are short and patience is thin so you need these coaching baseball tips to find ways to keep practices interesting and competitive.

I hope these coaching baseball tips work as well for you as they have for me.

1. Have a preseason parent’s meeting. This should be mandatory for every team. More problems can be eliminated than you can imagine, if you plan this meeting right. Spell out your coaching philosophy, and parental behavior at games. Playing time isrepparttar 133123 #1 parental complaint. Deal with this up front at this meeting and you will avoid problems duringrepparttar 133124 season.

Enlist your assistant coaches and find a couple of scorekeepers.

Inform them ofrepparttar 133125 importance of punctuality in bring their kids to practice and picking them up after. Otherwise you will spend half your practice waiting for players to arrive, and spend your dinner hour waiting for them to be picked up.

The parents meeting is #1 of all my coaching baseball tips.

2. Find assistant coaches. You can never have to much help when coaching baseball. If you can’t find qualified coaches enlistrepparttar 133126 help of parents to help you run drill stations and handle administrative details like uniforms and scorekeeping.

3. Emphasizerepparttar 133127 fundamentals. The proper mechanics for throwing and hitting are seldom emphasized enough. Injuries occur when children use poor mechanics. Teach proper warm ups and insist they are performed before practice begins.

4. Have a plan and work your plan. If you are serious about coaching baseball takerepparttar 133128 time to develop a practice plan based onrepparttar 133129 skills you need to teach. Pick outrepparttar 133130 fundamental skill sets appropriate to your age group and practice drill and practice again.

5. Spend 30%-40% of every practice on pitching. This is why you need assistants. Someone should spend this much time at every practice with your pitchers. This does not mean they pitch all of this time, they can work on mechanics and drills like balance drills, and towel drills. Ifrepparttar 133131 players can lead off at your age group, you would also include holding runners on and fielding bunts. Players should throw batting practice once they can throw strikes on a regular basis.

2004-05 NBA Season Preview

Written by Leigh Douglas


2004 NBA PREVIEW by Leigh Douglas

If there was one single theme to this off-season forrepparttar NBA it was ‘change’ not only was there quite a bit of significant player movement, butrepparttar 133121 league itself underwent a makeover of sorts, finally expanding to a 30th franchise, and realigning to six divisions of five teams each. Of courserepparttar 133122 biggest headlines this off-season surroundedrepparttar 133123 ongoing saga that has becomerepparttar 133124 Los Angeles Lakers. Basicallyrepparttar 133125 Lakers surrendered to Kobe, and he got all that he asked for – namelyrepparttar 133126 exit of Shaq, and Phil Jackson. Shadowed byrepparttar 133127 Shaq move to Miami was what could end up being an even bigger deal with Tracy Mcgrady going from Orlando to Houston for Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley. Many speculate thatrepparttar 133128 tandem of Mcgrady and Yao Ming will berepparttar 133129 new Shaq-Kobe, but what is being overlooked isrepparttar 133130 potential for Steve Francis to re-establish himself as “the franchise”. Other moves of note this off-season, was Phoenix getting a whole new back court of Steve Nash and Quentin Richardson, Dallas having wholesale changes after losing out on Nash inrepparttar 133131 open market, they proceeded to unload Antawn Jamison and Antione Walker, and replaced Nash with Jason Terry (and rookie Devin Harris) and replaced 6th man Jamison with Jerry Stackhouse. One very interesting move that went relatively unheralded wasrepparttar 133132 trade of Al Harrington from Indiana to Atlanta for Stephen Jackson. Both players and teams should benefit greatly from this trade, especially Indiana, as it now allows Reggie Miller to come ofrepparttar 133133 bench. Then of course there arerepparttar 133134 defending world champion Detroit Pistons who by all indications should be even stronger this year, having Rasheed Wallace for a whole season, as well as adding Antonio McDyess and Derrick Coleman to their bench (both of whom would probably start for some teams) plus if they get anything at all out of last years lottery pick Darko Milicic it would be a bonus. When all is said and done this season all ofrepparttar 133135 shuffling will have gotten a lot of teams closer, and it might have closed some gaps, but come next summerrepparttar 133136 final four should be very similar to what it has been recently, Detroit is stillrepparttar 133137 team to beat inrepparttar 133138 East, and Indiana isrepparttar 133139 only team with a chance to do so. Inrepparttar 133140 West San Antonio will once again be a force, and Minnesota should continue its recent success behind perennial MVP candidate Kevin Garnett.

2004 Forecast: Atlantic Division 1KnicksMarbury is a sleeper for MVP, will not miss Allan Houston at all 2CelticsPayton will be on a mission to regain some status, Pierce another MVP candidate 3NetsLosses of Martin & Kittles too big to overcome 4RaptorsHow high a ceiling can Bosh have on such a small frame? 576ersIverson will be demanding a trade by January

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