What a wonderful evening last night at the softball banquet. From one parent to another, well done junior parents, I know it was a ton of work and in the end it was executed with the same precision the Varsity team executed throughout their season!
It was a bit of an emotional night, as most of [...]
Imagine communicating and coaching your kids between practices and online… that may take some getting used to, but its an interesting idea. NYSCA recently launch a new tool, Shapestuff, that helps coaches do just that.
“ShapeStuff is an easy-to-use tool that enables youth sports coaches to create skill-building exercises for their players to use between practices. [...]
I realize I shouldn’t shares these, but here’s a list of the top 10 things that helped us this season.
Never wear a white uniform, not only does it get dirty, but it’s bad karma –burn it instead.
Everyone and I mean everyone needs a lucky penny.
Never wash your cap.
Never drink from the water cooler without examining [...]
Another tough game this Sunday, you might say another in a long line of anothers this season.
I’ve been reading and referring to The Mental Game of Baseball, a lot this season. It’s a great book, chocked full of “what it takes” and then backing it up with several stories from the pro’s who’ve been there. [...]
I spent this past weekend in Kansas City along with another 217 (some odd) girl softball teams and their parents. And I gotta admit, it’s sorta nice being on the other side of the fence for a change.
One game in particular I was watching caught my attention. It was a heated and close game [...]
You just never know when it’ll happen, but it happened tonight for our boys on the ball field. We only had about half the team tonight so it was a pretty informal practice. And I mean to tell you, the boys looked like pint sized pro-ballers. Diving plays, across the body throws, well [...]
Players make choices, often without realizing they’re doing so. To allow a poor approach to be repeated over and over again — one which greatly inhibits effective performance — is to make a choice, whether it is a conscious one or an unconscious one. For example, a hitter who is confused and fustrated brings the [...]
A great video of Manny Ramirez’s swing mechanics narrated by former MLB catcher Don Slaught. I purchased Don’s Right View Pro software several years ago and it provides insight to a batters swing mechanics you can’t get any other way.
Via the Youth Sports Parents Blog comes the following:
Gretzky on youth hockey
from Youth Sports Parents by Mark Hyman
This is a terrific piece from last Friday’s Toronto Globe and Mail in which Wayne Gretzky speaks out about the overheated state of youth hockey. Basically, he advises parents to back off. Let kids enjoy the game. Encourage [...]
One of the techniques I’ve used over the years to help a child build self confidence is the highlight reel. Most any child who has watched ESPN or any televised sport for that matter, is familiar with highlight footage. In fact they often look forward to it, whether at the end of the game or [...]