Youth Education

Lessons from other sports

Some lessons learned in youth soccer coach has really helped me in coaching other sports I know very little.

In 2002, the Screaming Eagles Youth Football Program has decided to start a baseball. The problem was that I did not before the baseball coach and over 90% of our children never had a glove, while the popularity of baseball has declined in the city center.

How we were able to completely turn around our football program from the bottom of the league at the beginning of the intensive training of trainers and develop a system of heavy research, I decided to do the same for baseball:

My experience with baseball as a coach was non-existent. I played that until my last year of Junior High School and was only average on a good day. I felt my lack of expertise on the subject has been minimal, and I had no authority or credibility, a new system to the entire program Screaming Eagle impose. Baseball “program” I was was created for my personal team.

Started the project as another to teach research on the videos and books available to the youth baseball coaches. I bought a tape by Marty on the practical organization Shupack baseball. I went to the local mill baseball practice in and bought a few books and tapes that were all specifically targeted to young coaches. I asked around and found out who the best manager consistelntly have been obtained. Many of them practice in an indoor practice center, so I went and saw some of the top youth teams will receive their education in the year.

I then sought advice from the best coaches youth baseball in the region. If you learn from someone, why not jump on the guy who had the most success? Here in Omaha is a guy named Bill Olsen. Coach Olsen has trained national championship teams at youth level. It is made high school coach and he also has an assistant coach on the U.S. Pan American Games and Olympic teams. Coach Olsen knows his stuff and has a passion for the development of young baseball players and he likes to teach, how to teach coaches, players.

I had the good fortune to visit, four large hospitals Coach Olsen, and when I played 9 years of competition organized baseball, I found:

1) I knew nothing about baseball coaching

2) My former baseball coaches knew I either had not cheated as a player.

I have not committed the same thing happen to these children.

Coach Olsen has shown good fundamentals, but also how to break down and teach each movement. He gave us a lot of progress just to correct Hitting, Fielding, and cast to teach the pitch. I was surprised to see how his methods in parallel, as we teach our children how to play youth football.

I saw some of the best “Select” and rec level coaches, as they were running their practices. I’ve learned to teach the movements and how to shave tons of time in my practice. Back in the days that I played, there was an eyelash practice of a player strike, while the balls Who Shagged 11 players on the field, how boring. Rarely were the points of the coaching provided, we should be better, “the practice. I learned a lot in fact much less time. I had the chance to watch Mike Evans implementation of certain practices of its own, Mike has taken several Pacesetter” Select ” team of young national championships and now coach a team Junior College. I got some real games will net him the interest of the children, such as the establishment of assessment teams and fun exercises that we do for our youth soccer teams.

Long story short, I developed a plan and put it on the expertise of these men not know what I knew from my own experience. My first team was described as follows are the “Land of Misfit Toys” from the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” movie. Our first few practices, most children have shown how to put a glove, and about a third of children do not even gloves, they were terrible. I went to the store and the army has acquired Hi used gloves, the oil and were ready for the second session. The children were always better and we have every practice, as we have made progress very slowly to our destination. Just as in youth football, which we identify the critical success factors, nothing was wasted no time or movement. We have a lot of things that we as increases in football, the focus is “ready” group, to limit the contracts of the players in form and frost Scramble live, etc. Discipline model, etc. With Coach Olsen’s ideas and what I have on the Videos have seen we have the ability, each player plays 16 minutes with an eye practice in two hours we had every practice. We live not even touched until the three weeks when we have a lot of “beating” the lessons and exercises no bats and no ball goes, then tea, then soft-start, then the ball on five farm equipment division, which my wrists hurts.

We do not “mixed” or make a lot of live and infielder area we have a lot of exercises without the ball and ball exercises for buckets. We did not play ball, he would have been a total waste of time (for search, no seizure to be), we worked frozen on the mechanics of throwing (yes, good exercises and freezing). I did everything 100%, since the proposed Bill Olsen.
We went to our first game not knowing how to play the game terribly well, but we have real progress in the basics. We ended up winning this game and we played all 14 games this year, to the surprise of all. Each of my children was hitting the ball, also very defensive about 190 pounds overweight in the first missed practice on every ball, a T-shirt! We have consistently over the handles 1-2-3 defense, etc. Over the next two years I stayed at this age level, the original group proposes on the other teams. Next year my team won all 12 of our games and we are in the next 14 years another three years, the dominant team won the championship without a loss in this age group and we passed miles a year in Little League, which regularly produces State Champions. We have never played in every major tournament we did not have the money, unfortunately, we decided to do this and usually for a much more low-key baseball, as we did in football. Baseball was our only “filler” until the football season to come.

The moral of this story is, are the major priorities of educational advancement, the details of fundamental importance for all sports, “Rush” is overrated and the practical organization of large time-saving use towers critical. Take some time and from experts who teach me to children so that they could have more fun learning allowed. As in football, kids have more fun if they did not lose any games, as in baseball, they do not have much fun when they come out of either all or lose games. were was the saddest that we have so much better than the other teams in each of the three years I have trained, we have actually played a competitive age group. Many coaches I have against the hospital was maintained to Bill Olsen I, but I could do during the warm-up phase, not them, which suggested the coach Olsen, that it to say, heating, or how they kept their gloves, or how their infielders returned to their position or how their club was in their position. Let these coaches were asleep, while coach Olsen said, or they just decided not to own “best”. I decided to do so Olsen’s coach and if it does not work, I would do more research and make changes. In my opinion, roll these young coaches really the players, our more fundamentally sound, it looked like we practiced five days a week, although in reality we were much less comfortable than any team in the league, and most other teams had children with the experience of their teams.