I use a tee station into a net, soft toss into the fence, heavy ball and live BP. I've seen the mini whiffle balls. How good of an investment do you find them to be? I coach little league and middle school.
7 and 8u machine pitch. We have 3 tee stations, heavy ball station and live pitching in cage with 2 bunts before swinging away. 12 kids on team and we pair them up. Tee stations vary. One high tee the others are normal but one is feet together and stride to get them to turn hips.
I coach a 9U-11U Little League baseball team so practice and game stations differ. Practice stations: 1. Tee station into a net. 2. Heavy balls. 3. Side toss into net. 4. live pitching at plate. Game warm up stations: 1. Heavy balls. 2. Side toss into net. 3. Live pitching at batting cages.
My buddy and I have coached Little League together for many years now. The system that has worked best for our kids has been different hit-stick methods, to cage work, then on the field hitting practice.
We do mini balls side toss in the garage and put a bed sheet over our net so the balls won’t fly thythe net. We also do short bat swings with the left and right hand.
I'm not a coach but I do alot of batting practice using weighted training balls with my two boys ages 8 and 10 They play travel ball and I'm going to start incorporating the mini wiffle ball training Thank you for the tips
I work tee and soft toss into 2 different nets. So 2 stations. Then I have another station where it’s Heavy Balls and Wiffle balls mixed, then a hit stick station. 4 stations going, all are rotated. Then we break the team up and scrimmage. Coaches play outfield and 1 coach pitches. We do regular BP and go to cages too, this was just a sample of 1 practice.
Usually try to vary it depending on where we are in the season. To make it fun, we will make it a 6 vs 6 "game." Live BP with 5th swing "live" and defense has to get 3 outs, then rotate. Winners get out of equip pickup or setup next time.
On my team we have no Left handed players so we all go to left field because they all pull off of my coach. Basically we do everything you showed but don't have a mini wiffle ball machine.
When we do hitting stations, we typically do 1 tee(usually working on something specific), one soft toss machine, two live BP(in cages), and then we have the mini wiffle ball machine. We break our team(10 players) up into 5 groups of 2 and rotate through all 5 stations.
I work 3 stations, the tee in net, small wiffleball, then live BP. I haven't acquired a set of heavy ball yet. As an added drill I line the whole team along the fence and work on keeping the hands in.
Typically we do bp on batting cages, tee drills, soft toss heavy balls and I'll do my best to pitch at the players. Thanks for the video, I'm going to incorporate this in the actual practice field.
I was wondering what your opinion on running the first practice of the season with a youth team. Like what drills would you do to see the talent you have on the team? I've tried googling but I definitely prefer your videos.
Marcelo Hernandez You could time them from home to home or in the 60 yard dash (or shorter) but definitely get everyone’s 1st to 2nd time to know who can steal if you’re playing open bases.
Stations: High T, T Swing to Extension, T location, Double T bat path, 45° Toss, pizza toss, front toss for live with sting free balls or wiffles with skinny bat (with various mechanics and mental approaches - menu for the day).
well normally for practices we have two a week, one on Monday and the other on Thursday. We like to have more of a defensive approach on Mondays and do infield-outfield and then a little baserunning. Then we normally do a type of scrimmage we call a rooster game (basically a scrimmage just we have to play our hardest and be very aggressive) at the end of practice. Thursdays we do hitting, pitching, and catching in the academy. All around a very fun time playing travel baseball. (recommend travel baseball if bored of little league, and or want to play way more competitive baseball) Hope you read this John I am a very big fan. Love your vids. Keep it up.
For my 6U instructional team (just after tee-ball), having only 9 players, I've been doing a tee station hitting into a net, followed by live BP with the 4 infield positions filled, and 3 kids in the outfield with another coach or parent just working on throwing and hands-up catching. They rotate from the throw & catch station into 3rd base, moving around the infield positions with each rotation, then from 1st into the tee station, then into live BP then back to throw & catch. BP is about 20 to 25 pitches. Getting through the whole team takes about 35 to 40 minutes. That gives just enough time for a little warm up at the beginning, like practicing running through 1st base a couple times, and something fun at the end to round out the hour, like a distance throwing competition or a race around the bases.
When doing a quick toss drill I have them take normal quick toss cuts, loading when my hand drops to toss the ball. I then have the hitter close his eyes. I verbalize my hand dropping, they load, I toss the ball and the hitter swings with their eyes closed visualizing hitting the ball. Even if the hitter doesn't hit the ball with the few closed eyes cuts the last 5 swings with their eyes open are almost always more successful then the initial swings with their eyes open.
My son started playing baseball just this fall after many years of playing soccer... When we go to the field we normally do the small whiffle ball with the skinny barrel bat and the normal bat. I have a bad shoulder so I can throw to much and going to batting cages are just too expensive for me... I would love to get some of those heavy balls but also can't get to fit them into my budget... That grip seems to be a very awesome way of teaching proper bat grip which he says feels weird.. Love your videos...
I coach 14, 15, 16 yr olds. One thing I like to do is put a tee on the foul line and have kids try to hit directly down the line. This ensures that they drive through the ball and don't pull off. Thanks for your tips!
For hitting practice with my 9/10u team I like to setup a station with two hitting nets, one with a kid hitting off a tee and another soft toss from a coach and another station with a coach doing BP on the diamond. Heavy balls are great too
I split offense and defense Half does infield or outfield (defense) Half rotates tee, coach pitch in cage, soft toss. Gotta bring the perfect pitcher to next practice. Then live batting 5v5 intrasquad scrimmage
Station 1a. Overload/Underload/Regular (+/- 5 oz) with Heavy Balls and Tee Station 1b. Same but with baseballs Station 2a. O/U/R front toss with heavy balls Station 2b..same but with baseballs Station 3a. Cage/overhand throws Station 3b..med ball training
![[UA] NAVI проти G2 Esports | Blast Premier Fall Final](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QWlIm4FGESQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks for video coach !!! The third and fourth drill helped me a lot.⚾⚾⚾⚓⚓💪
We don’t hit during practice but when game time comes and we can’t hit in the game the coaches wonder why
Thomas Maher same here
I use a tee station into a net, soft toss into the fence, heavy ball and live BP. I've seen the mini whiffle balls. How good of an investment do you find them to be? I coach little league and middle school.
7 and 8u machine pitch. We have 3 tee stations, heavy ball station and live pitching in cage with 2 bunts before swinging away. 12 kids on team and we pair them up. Tee stations vary. One high tee the others are normal but one is feet together and stride to get them to turn hips.
I coach a 9U-11U Little League baseball team so practice and game stations differ.
Practice stations:
1. Tee station into a net.
2. Heavy balls.
3. Side toss into net.
4. live pitching at plate.
Game warm up stations:
1. Heavy balls.
2. Side toss into net.
3. Live pitching at batting cages.
My buddy and I have coached Little League together for many years now. The system that has worked best for our kids has been different hit-stick methods, to cage work, then on the field hitting practice.
Tee work, soft toss, live pitching, but we should get that mini whiffle machine, looks useful. Do you recommend that for high schoolers?
Paul Tamsin I do. A lot of pros use it too
Great video⚾️🇨🇦
We do Personal pitcher station, 2 T- stations. 1 bunt station and 1 wiggle station usually outfield.
We do mini balls side toss in the garage and put a bed sheet over our net so the balls won’t fly thythe net. We also do short bat swings with the left and right hand.
I'm not a coach but I do alot of batting practice using weighted training balls with my two boys ages 8 and 10
They play travel ball and I'm going to start incorporating the mini wiffle ball training
Thank you for the tips
Were just doing live bp but the stations will be used
I work tee and soft toss into 2 different nets. So 2 stations. Then I have another station where it’s Heavy Balls and Wiffle balls mixed, then a hit stick station. 4 stations going, all are rotated.
Then we break the team up and scrimmage. Coaches play outfield and 1 coach pitches. We do regular BP and go to cages too, this was just a sample of 1 practice.
Usually try to vary it depending on where we are in the season. To make it fun, we will make it a 6 vs 6 "game." Live BP with 5th swing "live" and defense has to get 3 outs, then rotate. Winners get out of equip pickup or setup next time.
I run tee into net, soft toss then live pitch. Volunteer coach here could really use more equipment thanks.
On my team we have no Left handed players so we all go to left field because they all pull off of my coach. Basically we do everything you showed but don't have a mini wiffle ball machine.
great stuff! Keep em coming!
btw..try adding a pinto.bean station before wiffles..it is a great precursor to those
I have 9u coach pitch and batting practice we do three stations one is a side toss one is hitting off a tee into the fence and last one is love BP.
We do most of the things in this video but on game days we do heavy balls , whiffle balls, and the tee and sometimes cage
How far do you set up the mini wiffle ball pitching machine from the plate?
Or how far for youth (10-13age)?
Emmanuel Martinez there’s different speeds so you’ll have to play with it but I usually set it up around 25 feet or so. I just eye ball it tbh
We have tee station, then side toss and bp right after.
we do BP & tea .
When we do hitting stations, we typically do 1 tee(usually working on something specific), one soft toss machine, two live BP(in cages), and then we have the mini wiffle ball machine. We break our team(10 players) up into 5 groups of 2 and rotate through all 5 stations.
I work 3 stations, the tee in net, small wiffleball, then live BP. I haven't acquired a set of heavy ball yet. As an added drill I line the whole team along the fence and work on keeping the hands in.
Typically we do bp on batting cages, tee drills, soft toss heavy balls and I'll do my best to pitch at the players. Thanks for the video, I'm going to incorporate this in the actual practice field.
We do the work and live b.p.
Awesome video!! I've always wanted to know your opinion on how to do this.
We do soft toss and hit into fence, also do the tee work then live B.P. great advice with the small wiffle balls and the weighted ball.
We do tee work, soft toss and live bp
We do tee and mini ball stations. Great vid!
I was wondering what your opinion on running the first practice of the season with a youth team. Like what drills would you do to see the talent you have on the team? I've tried googling but I definitely prefer your videos.
Marcelo Hernandez You could time them from home to home or in the 60 yard dash (or shorter) but definitely get everyone’s 1st to 2nd time to know who can steal if you’re playing open bases.
Tee live batting soft toss them mini balls
Batting cage then heavy balls and after that live bp
Stations: High T, T Swing to Extension, T location, Double T bat path, 45° Toss, pizza toss, front toss for live with sting free balls or wiffles with skinny bat (with various mechanics and mental approaches - menu for the day).
well normally for practices we have two a week, one on Monday and the other on Thursday. We like to have more of a defensive approach on Mondays and do infield-outfield and then a little baserunning. Then we normally do a type of scrimmage we call a rooster game (basically a scrimmage just we have to play our hardest and be very aggressive) at the end of practice. Thursdays we do hitting, pitching, and catching in the academy. All around a very fun time playing travel baseball. (recommend travel baseball if bored of little league, and or want to play way more competitive baseball) Hope you read this John I am a very big fan. Love your vids. Keep it up.
What about while your alone
For my 6U instructional team (just after tee-ball), having only 9 players, I've been doing a tee station hitting into a net, followed by live BP with the 4 infield positions filled, and 3 kids in the outfield with another coach or parent just working on throwing and hands-up catching. They rotate from the throw & catch station into 3rd base, moving around the infield positions with each rotation, then from 1st into the tee station, then into live BP then back to throw & catch. BP is about 20 to 25 pitches. Getting through the whole team takes about 35 to 40 minutes. That gives just enough time for a little warm up at the beginning, like practicing running through 1st base a couple times, and something fun at the end to round out the hour, like a distance throwing competition or a race around the bases.
When doing a quick toss drill I have them take normal quick toss cuts, loading when my hand drops to toss the ball. I then have the hitter close his eyes. I verbalize my hand dropping, they load, I toss the ball and the hitter swings with their eyes closed visualizing hitting the ball. Even if the hitter doesn't hit the ball with the few closed eyes cuts the last 5 swings with their eyes open are almost always more successful then the initial swings with their eyes open.
My son started playing baseball just this fall after many years of playing soccer... When we go to the field we normally do the small whiffle ball with the skinny barrel bat and the normal bat. I have a bad shoulder so I can throw to much and going to batting cages are just too expensive for me... I would love to get some of those heavy balls but also can't get to fit them into my budget... That grip seems to be a very awesome way of teaching proper bat grip which he says feels weird.. Love your videos...
I coach 14, 15, 16 yr olds. One thing I like to do is put a tee on the foul line and have kids try to hit directly down the line. This ensures that they drive through the ball and don't pull off. Thanks for your tips!
Now this was a solid video!
For hitting practice with my 9/10u team I like to setup a station with two hitting nets, one with a kid hitting off a tee and another soft toss from a coach and another station with a coach doing BP on the diamond. Heavy balls are great too
We start on the tee, then soft toss, then wiffle balls, finally live hitting.
I do the same stations but I do add a 4th in which is the fence drill to teach them to keep their hands inside. Thanks for the great videos!
We do a tee station, soft toss station and live BP station with our team.
Nice shirt...Nice to see the support for us Vets
I split offense and defense
Half does infield or outfield (defense)
Half rotates tee, coach pitch in cage, soft toss.
Gotta bring the perfect pitcher to next practice.
Then live batting 5v5 intrasquad scrimmage
Station 1a. Overload/Underload/Regular (+/- 5 oz) with Heavy Balls and Tee
Station 1b. Same but with baseballs
Station 2a. O/U/R front toss with heavy balls
Station 2b..same but with baseballs
Station 3a. Cage/overhand throws
Station 3b..med ball training