Powerful and Explosive Tee Ball Batting Tips:

Powerful Tee Ball Batting Tips:
Transform batting swings from average to awesome. 

Purpose:  The purpose of this list is to help touch on some key points when observing the batting posture of one of your players.  Most of the time, new coaches don't know what to look for when teaching a player how to swing a bat and make contact.  Utilizing these guidelines to help adjust the stance, swing and follow-through of the hitter and create explosive results.

Equipment: A batting helmet for safety, batting tee and ball.

Execution:

1. Have batter stand in the batting box and adjust the tee so that it is waist level to the batter.
2. Have batter face the tee, knees bent and shoulder width apart. The balls of the feet should support the players weight.  Have batter place a slight curve in their back.
3. Batter should grip the bat firmly with knuckles pointing up. The hands should be above the knob of the bat and knob pointing down.
4. Instruct the player to hold the bat steady and bring the bat out, up and towards their back without changing their grip.  Remember knot of bat should be pointing in a downward direction. 
5. Shoulders should be level and eyes focused on the ball.
6. When player is ready to swing, have them take a small step with their leading foot and swing with their eyes on the ball.
7. Swing should be level, head down and bat swung through the ball.
8. Player should shift their weight to the forward foot while the back foot pivots with toes facing forward and heel up.  Observe the hip rotation.
9. Watch player complete the follow through and drop the bat at the completion of the swing.
10. Note: Keep these things in mind. Eyes on the ball, grip and knob position, foot position, weight shift, hip rotation and swing.

These things should be observed when batting.  Additionally, having the player raise their back heel prior to the swing prevents them from lunging forward toward the tee and helps them focus on weight shift and proper foot pivoting.  Practice these often and your team will develop strong batting skills.  Always give positive encouragement and keep it fun.

If this is your first time coaching a tee ball team, take a look at my post on A FIRST TIME TEE BALL COACH'S SURVIVAL KIT:

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A FIRST TIME TEE BALL COACH'S SURVIVAL KIT:

A FIRST TIME TEE BALL COACH'S SURVIVAL KIT:
This is an absolute must have.


    If it is your first time coaching a tee ball team or even if you have coached in the past but are a little rusty, than I encourage you to pick up a copy of Baffled Parents Guide to Coaching Tee Ball by Bing Broido.  You will find that for those of you who are first time coaches, there are plenty of new tools in this book to fill your coaching tool box.  Additionally, for those that have coached in the past, you will find that this will sharpen some of those tools and improve your ability to coach young athletes.

    This book is very easy to read and provides a practical roadmap for success for new and experienced coaches.  It provides expert tips on how to conduct a game, plan an effective practice session, and gives expert advice from an experienced coaching team.  The book does a great job covering the aspects of what a first time Tee ball coach really needs to know and gives them the confidence in their own coaching abilities.  Once you read this book, you will have just about all you need to effectively teach young ball players and have a productive and successful season.  It even covers how to survive your first practice and reach all the children.  It also thoroughly explains the need for kids to be engaged and it covers some practical and creative ways to accomplish that.    You will learn how to be the coach you never had, how to make team improvement your goal and not so much winning or losing.  It covers how to create a positive atmosphere and foster team spirit and learn to just have fun with your team. 

    This book should definitely be a must read for all coaches and parents because the information and insight are life changing.  There are not many books that cover tee ball and coaching like this one does, so take advantage.  Sometime parents don't want to get involved because they don't know much about the topic of tee ball.  If that is the case then have them read this book, it will eliminate that fear immediately.  They will know what the game is all about and will have the knowledge to effectively participate and get involved.  I provided a  link below, so take advantage and prepare to be a very valuable asset to the team and watch your team become teerrific.

 


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Catching Drills

DRILL #1: NOVICE CATCH.
Purpose:  The purpose of this tee ball drill is to help the tee ball player focus on maintaining correct form when catching a baseball.  Additionally, this will also build confidence for the tee ball player when catching baseballs.
Equipment:  This drill can be performed with a tennis ball or a reduced impact safety baseball (RISB) and without a tee ball glove to prevent pop-up injuries.  Place a training disc or cone on the ground and another about 15 feet from that position to mark the position the player should stand.
Execution:

1. Have the player stand at one training disc or cone in a fielding position with their least dominant hand in front with fingers up.
2. The coach standing at the other training disc will throw the tennis ball or RISB underhand to the player.
3. The player is to catch the ball with their least dominant hand with fingers up.
4. Observe how the catch is made and make corrections as appropriate.
5. The player will throw the ball back to the coach.
6. Repeat previous steps several times.

DRILL #2: NOVICE GLOVE CATCH.
Purpose:  The purpose of this tee ball drill is to help the tee ball player focus on the maintaining correct form when catching a baseball.
Equipment:  This drill will be performed with a tee ball glove and tee-ball.  Place a training disc or cone on the ground and another about 15 feet from that position to mark the position the player should stand.
Execution:

1. Have player stand at one training disc or cone in a fielding position with gloved hand in front with fingers up.
2. The coach will throw the baseball underhand to the player.
3. The player is to catch the ball with their gloved hand with knuckles up.
4. Observe how the catch was made and make corrections as appropriate.
5. The player will throw the ball back to the coach.
6. Repeat previous steps several times.

DRILL #3: INTERMEDIATE GLOVE CATCH.
Purpose:  The purpose of this tee ball drill is to help the tee ball player focus on maintaining correct form when catching a baseball.
Equipment:  This drill will be performed with a baseball glove and baseball.  Place a training disc or cone on the ground and another about 30 feet from that position to mark the position the player should stand.
Execution:

1. Have player stand at one training disc or cone in a fielding position with gloved hand in front with fingers up.
2. The coach will throw the baseball overhand to the player.
3. The player is to catch the ball with their gloved hand with knuckles up.
4. Observe how the catch was made and make corrections as appropriate.
5. The player will throw the ball back to coach.
6. Repeat previous steps several times.

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