Four Steps to Organize Your Little League Practice , Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 12:22 AM, in

The only chance you have as a Little League Coach is try and get yourself organized. I have listed out the very basic steps to organize your practice. You have so so many constraints on you it very difficult to get all the practice completely covered. The amount of practice time is limited maybe to 3 days per week. Getting practice fields is a major problem in most instances. The length of practice is another. You cannot hold marathon practices three to four hour practices. Using a planned schedule will enable you to have practice that are fun for the players therefore they will learn what what you trying to teach them.
Scheduling Practice -
You have a such a short time to prepare your team usually about 3 to 4 weeks. It is important you are organized your practices so that you may over come the constraints that come with being a Little League Coach.
Getting Practice Fields

• number of times you practices: weather, all players can make to all practices.
• practicing to much parents complain
• not practicing enough

Fielding, Defense, Pitching and Hitting
Fielding

• Outfield
• Infield

Pitchers

• Pick off - 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base, and covering home
• Run downs
• Out field: Cut off men, short stop, 3rd base, 2nd base, 1st base, Pitcher
• Throwing to bases -2nd,3rd, home
• Situations - Simulate a game situation with coach hitting and player running

Hitting Stations

• Hitting off of a "T"
• Soft Toss
• Live Hitting - 10 swings
• Bunting

Pitchers

• Throwing a bull pen with catcher

You look at this say wow! You just have organize yourself. Make sure self a template (using Microsoft word) for your practice days. Plug in your dates. You can do A, B C, D and rotate them through your practice schedule. It is a must that you get parents to help. You will need at least two to help to run a practice. You will have to do two of these segments each day and possibly a third.
You will find defense is one of the most important segments you must cover everyday. You can never hit enough ground balls to your infield. So fielding must be done just about every day.




You may want to have just your infield come and work on ground balls and going over where they positions themselves for cut off from outfield. You can do the same for pitchers. Bring the pitchers and catchers to practice their defense and working on their wind up and delivery.
Best thing a you can do is make sure you are organized! Stick to your schedule and make adjustments as you go. Please do not get frustrated and not follow an organized plan.
Practice Makes Prefect

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