Category: General

The Holidays are over! The Bowl games are over! Its time to get ready for BASEBALL!!! If you have been involved in a strength training program, it’s time to pump it up. If you haven’t been working out, start TODAY! Only the strong survive and there is still time to make a meaningful improvement. Your… Continue reading Players Really Are Made In The Off-Season

As the season starts, we want to get off to a good start with our team and what is expected of them. Of course, youth baseball is unlike a school team sport and you cannot force a player to practice or even force them to be on time. However, there are certain things you can… Continue reading Getting Kids to Practice on Time

Don’t yell out instructions. During the game I’m trying to concentrate on what the coach says and working on what I’ve been practicing. It’s easier for me to do my best if you save instructions and reminders for practice or just before the game.  Don’t put down the officials. This embarrasses me and I sometimes… Continue reading Sideline Suggestions: 10 Things Kids Say They Don’t Want Their Parents to Do

I was recently asked by a friend for some tips about how his sons should approach their upcoming Little League tryouts. They wanted to know how to catch the coaches’ eye. The obvious answer is to play well. But there are a few things they should do to insure an eye-catching performance. Understand that a… Continue reading Tips For A Successful Tryout

In most youth baseball leagues, autumn is the time of year that baseball leagues have registration and also assign players to teams. Tryouts and the player draft are always one of the most interesting times of the year. Some managers try to gain an advantage during this time. There is always a scramble to secure… Continue reading Youth Baseball Tryouts and The Draft

An oft-quoted baseball axiom is that in 65% of baseball games, the winning team scores more runs in one inning than the losing team does in the entire game. Thus, the issue for coaches becomes how do you prevent those big innings that lose games? I believe the answer is through preparing your team to… Continue reading Preventing the Big Inning

The ability to play well under pressure is one of the most desired qualities for any athlete in any sport, and a player who can perform extremely well in practice but cannot duplicate that performance in a game will not be successful and will, in fact, be a very frustrated athlete. The first step in… Continue reading Playing Well Under Pressure

In the world of athletics or other movement skills, we are always searching for practice methods that allow for peak skill in games or performance opportunities. The time length of practices or rehearsals can be a key factor in allowing a student-athlete to perform at peak level. Too little or too much practice can eliminate… Continue reading Distributed (Short) Versus Massed (Long) Practice