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T-Ball Coaching:Successful techniques for fundamental skills
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(3 ratings)
26 students
Created byMarty Schupak
Last updated 10/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • This course teaches how to give t-ball players a foundation and love for baseball and softball they will have for the rest of their lives!
  • Valuable concepts needed to coach t-ball skills including but limited to teaching hitting, throwing, catching, fielding and baserunning.
  • Learners will be taught how to organize drills and structure practices in a way that players will be craving for more and want to come back to practice.
  • Creativity and sound fundamentals are emphasized as a means to both stimulate and instill the correct techniques and give confidence to players.
  • The use of drills in such a way that beautiful manicured fields are not a requirement. So coaches and parents can utilize small confined areas for these drills.
  • Different teaching techniques are addressed that have been battle tested to get certain sports concepts through to young kids in a positive manner!
  • Lifetime sports coaching concepts are shared so learners of this course can use these concepts in other sports they coach no matter what the age.
  • Learners will have access to over 150 creative t-ball drills and learn how to structure a practice using them!

Course content

8 sections8 lectures2h 34m total length
  • Introduction10:56

    The free introduction covers an overview of the course including a video montage that gives the student a taste of what the drills will look like. In addition two complete drills will be shown with an explanation of each that t-ball coaches will learn the benefits of each. A number of coaching concepts will be explained that have been used successfully by the instructor. A complete biography is gone over showing the qualifications of the instructor. This free section will give the student a fair sample of how the course is structured.

Requirements

  • There is no prerequisites for taking this course other than bringing enthusiasm and a love to work with young kids!!

Description

This complete t-ball coaching course will give you everything you need to succeed as a first time or returning t-ball coach. You will be able to teach sound fundamentals to young athletes in such a stimulating creative way that kids will yearn for more of the battle tested drills that are available in this course! By getting them started in such a positive manner, you will be able to build a solid foundation of basic skills that kids will want to continue to play baseball and softball.


You will learn…….how to teach young t-ball players

  • Hitting skills

  • Baserunning skills

  • Catching & Fielding skills

  • Throwing skills

  • Structuring t-ball practices


Included in teaching these skills will be:

 *     Learn why separating skills is important early in the season when teaching t-ball

  • How to recognize common mistakes

  • How to use alternative techniques for slow learners

  • How to put each player in a position to succeed

  • How to avoid common traps most t-ball coaches fall into

  • How to use at home items as props that will stimulate players

  • Using non-threatening items as a means to create success

  • How and why the “no glove” technique works

  • Using the drills shown and how to use them in your own backyard

  • How to integrate fun drills after skills drills

  • Learn how to change a common children’s game into a t-ball drill

  • Build an at home back stop for under $30.00 instead of a $300. net

  • Dealing with parents and how to cut down complaints by 60%

  • Off the field tips that have changed the future ability of athletes

  • Coaching concepts that can be taken and used in other sports

Who this course is for:

  • This course is perfect not only for first time t-ball coaches but for parents who want to learn creative drills that they can do in their backyard or at the schoolyard. Parents who have an unending love for baseball or softball and want their own children's first experience to be a positive one are perfect candidates to take this course.
  • Parents who want to continue to coach baseball or softball will have a great understanding and will feel comfortable teaching fundamentals of basic skills.
  • Parents and even professional sports coaches will learn coaching concepts that can be used in all sports at almost all levels of skill.