When I coach at any level, I try to correct every mistake I see a kid make. My attitude is that if I let a player field a ground ball in a manner contrary to the way I taught him at the first practice; if I see a boy catch a fly ball incorrectly; I [...]
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I’ve talked about this before, but it is important enough that it bears repeating. When you are coaching young players, your main goal is to make the experience a positive one so that they’ll want to come back and play again next year. This doesn’t mean you don’t correct mistakes and it doesn’t mean you [...]
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Great article by Dr. Greg Dale originally published in our CoachDeck On Deck Newsletter Issue, February, 2009. http://www.coachdeck.com/articles/the-seven-cs-of-coaching-credibility.asp
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We’ve all been there. Running a practice with a swarm of kids and trying our best to make it fun and entertaining while still teaching good, solid fundamentals. It is commonly accepted that the longer kids stand in line and wait for turns, the less they learn, the more they fool around and the harder [...]
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