Youth & Travel Baseball Blog, Updates, Coaching & Instruction

How to BoostHitting Confidence

Practice is when a hitter can think, make adjustments and work on different aspects of hitting. Coaches can boost hitting confidence in practice by knowing the right things to say and do. Of course, working on the hitting fundamentals is a never-endingprocess and the best coaches know how to keep players focused and willing to practice through thick and thin, and there are always more thin times for most ballplayers.

Sports Parents Guide - Don't Worry, you can still be a positive parent

This sports parents guide suggests you can still be a positivecoach and parent and teach life lessons along the way.

It seems as though positive parenting and positive coaching get a bad rap these days. People assume it means nothing but praising kids and attempting to build up their self-esteem all the time.

Developing staff chemistry is a must

Giancarlo Stanton What The Heck

Sports Parent's Rules for Athletes

Nowadays, nothing having to do with youth sports is easy as it was many years ago. Believe it or not, there was a time when parents would send theirkids off to practices and games without it being a big deal. At least, that is how I remember it when I grew up. Today, drama seems to surround the youth sports scene. I guess it is understandable with the big business that youth sports now entail. Money seems to change things and usually not for the better.

How to Rock Batting Practice Everytime

Learning how to rockbatting practice is a joint effort between coach and player. As players advance in their understanding of the fundamentalsand hitting strategies, they can start to make decisions to help their hitting plans.

Sports Parent's Rules for Athletes

Nowadays, nothing having to do with youth sports is easy as it was many years ago. Believe it or not, there was a time when parents would send theirkids off to practices and games without it being a big deal. At least, that is how I remember it when I grew up. Today, drama seems to surround the youth sports scene. I guess it is understandable with the big business that youth sports now entail. Money seems to change things and usually not for the better.

Self-confident athletes are not born, they're made

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Ideal Balance Position Determines Stride Length

Before even finding the best stride length for players, I want inexperienced players to understand what ideal balance position is. This concept is crucial for everything in sport and all sports. It is especially necessary with the most challenging skill of all hitting a baseball. Balance is often misunderstood when it comes to the initial stance and stride, as many people mistake style for fundamentals.

The definition of poise is no different on the playing fields as it is in other aspects of life. The dictionary definition of poise says it well "a state of balance." With athletes, I believe this relates not only to the mind but also to the body's state of balance.

Do you want to play like the pros, but don't want to have to pay what they do for their gear?

Tired of struggling to find a helmet that fits with your head and size just right?

Looking for a sleek and dashing helmet to complement your baseball attire?

Need to stay safe yet run fast at the ballgame?

Do you wish you could make the most out of each game?

Do you want to play with top equipment like a pro yet stay within your budget?

Are your kids always causing trouble by dragging dirt into your house?

Need the right traction on the field, even without spikes?

Want the ease of a light helmet but don't want to get smashed by a ball to your head when you're playing catcher?

Do you wish you could see better out of your helmet to find and catch the ball before it hits you?

Want professional, tested equipment to bring your baseball performance to the next level?

The Rawlings Velo bat is a baseball bat for high-school and collegiate level baseball players, but it is also a reasonably-enough priced bat to be used for intermediate minor league players.

It is a BBCOR certified bat meaning that it meets all of today's most up-to-date industry standards for high-school and collegiate play. A BBCOR certification is the only allowed bat certification in high school and collegiate play.

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Baseball Strike Zone Tips

Coaching the baseball strike zone to youth baseball players is a continual process and a complicated one. I say complicated for a couple of reasons. First, many beginners have little understanding of the game of baseball, mainly because today's kids do not watch the game much as they did years ago. They must learn what constitutes a strike, a ball and the overall strike zone. Secondly, just telling a ballplayer what the strike zone parameters are, do not make it easy to follow and automatically pick up.

Baseball Triple Crown Difficulty

Something as seemingly minuscule as batting gloves are often overlooked when examining baseball performance. You'd be amiss to brush aside the importance of proper batting gloves,however.

Batting gloves were originally invented inadvertently by Ken "Hawk" Harrelson when he used a golf glove to protect a blister he had gotten earlier in the day while playing a round of golf.

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