Combined Pitching/Catching Practices
Tonight was pitching practice. I combine my girls and boys for this practice and it works pretty well. We have balls flying all over the place. I am fortunate enough to be blessed with the best co-managers on the planet. My softball manager has been able to be there when the baseball coaches weren’t and visa-versa.
It is very good to have such great people surrounding me. They are managers in their own right. I am the assistant on the boys minor team and my assistant was a manager for years on the girls softball team. I really consider us all equals. We all have great knowledge and skill sets that compliment each other.
The progress both teams have made in the pitching department is amazing. Our first game we didn’t throw hardly any strikes on either team, and now we hardly walk any players. The progress the girls have made is awesome and the boys are developing such confidence.
It is important to hold special practices just for pitchers/catchers. It is tough to work them during the normal practice schedule and a separate day is required to provide proper instruction.
Again, I go back to the best lesson I ever learned, it came from a customer of mine who also coached softball. He said “I found that the team that practiced the most usually won the most, so we practiced the most”. So simple, yet so brilliant.
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