Little League Coach

[txfiremn]

Does anyone here coach Little League? I've either coached or help coach my son's basketball and t-ball teams in the past. This will be his second year in coach pitch. The league he is in has a shortage of coaches so I decided to step up and coach this year, despite of my 1 day on 2 days off schedule. Tball seemed pretty easy, just teaching the very minimum basics. Where to run after hitting the ball, catching and throwing .
This year, I want to be able to not only coach but teach these kids. Does anyone have any experience with the 6-8 yo age group? Any good sites to check out? All help is appreciated.

[03MachMe]

My dad has coached kids in his church before and says just to be patient. Just keep doing what you were before and I'm sure you will be fine. But then again if you are a firemen then I'm not so sure lol. My wife wants me to coach our sons team when he is old enough to play but I am scared I will be too hard on them because I was such a perfectionist with my sports when I played. Good luck!

[txfiremn]

No worries machme, my assistant coach is an leo! I think we are gonna name the team Guns N Hoses.

[03MachMe]

Originally Posted by txfiremn No worries machme, my assistant coach is an leo! I think we are gonna name the team Guns N Hoses.

Prefect lol talk to the guns and hoses foundation they might help y'all out

[re-rx7]

Coaching is like being a 2nd father figure. Point blank.

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by re-rx7 Coaching is like being a 2nd father figure. Point blank.

This.

[txfiremn]

Originally Posted by re-rx7 Coaching is like being a 2nd father figure. Point blank.

It's pretty cool. I still have kids high five me from teams I've helped coach in the past. It's a great feeling knowing you made a positive impact on a kid.

Originally Posted by blownaltered Are you coaching in Garland?

No, I'm down in Waco.

[blownaltered]

Originally Posted by txfiremn It's pretty cool. I still have kids high five me from teams I've helped coach in the past. It's a great feeling knowing you made a positive impact on a kid. No, I'm down in Waco.

Ok I was just curious because a few leagues around here are looking for multiple coaches. I'm the assistant coach for my boys team so I am going over to the coaches house tomorrow night to go over the draft. If sounds funny as hell to say that about 7-8 year olds but we have a draft.

We did a lot of working on ground balls, catching and throwing. We spent the first few practices on that. Then we worked on batting, you wouldn't believe how many kids that age don't even know where to stand to bat.

[txfiremn]

Originally Posted by blownaltered Ok I was just curious because a few leagues around here are looking for multiple coaches. I'm the assistant coach for my boys team so I am going over to the coaches house tomorrow night to go over the draft. If sounds funny as hell to say that about 7-8 year olds but we have a draft. We did a lot of working on ground balls, catching and throwing. We spent the first few practices on that. Then we worked on batting, you wouldn't believe how many kids that age don't even know where to stand to bat.

My boy is 7, his birthday is later in the year so he misses the next age group. He's in 5-7 yo group and we had a draft too. Your plan is pretty much whatwe did, we had our first practice yesterday. Mostly it was for us to find out who has what abilities. We have a kid thats never played or even thrown a ball. His dad said he started to work with him about 3 days ago and hit the poor kid in the head twice!

[blownaltered]

Originally Posted by txfiremn Does anyone here coach Little League? I've either coached or help coach my son's basketball and t-ball teams in the past. This will be his second year in coach pitch. The league he is in has a shortage of coaches so I decided to step up and coach this year, despite of my 1 day on 2 days off schedule. Tball seemed pretty easy, just teaching the very minimum basics. Where to run after hitting the ball, catching and throwing . This year, I want to be able to not only coach but teach these kids. Does anyone have any experience with the 6-8 yo age group? Any good sites to check out? All help is appreciated.

Are you coaching in Garland?

[BERT]

I don't have any kids but I've "helped" coach my little cousins tball teams and 7-8yr old team last year. I loved it. I really enjoyed teaching them something that they'll use for a few more years. It's taught me patience and that you might have to tell certain kids the same thing over and over again lol

Obviously put the kid that can catch the best at first base, then set your infield. We were one kid away from having an outstanding infield. Outfielders are easy to find, sorry to say. 7-8 over here is machine pitch and it took awhile for the kids to get the timing down of the ball coming out of the machine.

Base running took some time, especially with the stuff they didn't see all the time. Like holding up when the ball is hit in the air. They just want to take off as soon as it's hit. That was fun trying to explain that to some of them why they had to stay on the bag lol

Something I learned too, don't be afraid to hurt their feelings, most of them won't get their feelings hurt. I tend to be hard on the boys that I knew were really good and had potential. So when they would start goofing off or not do what I knew they could do I would get on them pretty hard. Then later after practice I would go and explain to them why I did so. I'd tell them "I get on you more cause you're one of the better players on this team and I know you can do better than that". They would usually smile real big and run off

Damn, I actually miss the little shits

[BERT]

And no offense to parents on here, but some of these kids are real shitheads and apparently their parents don't get on to them at all. Cause I haven't pissed off a parent yet while coaching or "yelling" at their kid. Hell, most of the time when I've felt I shouldn't have been so loud or yelled I'd go and apologize to the parent and they would say "oh no, you say whatever you need to, he doesn't listen to me" WTF?? lol

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by BERT And no offense to parents on here, but some of these kids are real shitheads and apparently their parents don't get on to them at all. Cause I haven't pissed off a parent yet while coaching or "yelling" at their kid. Hell, most of the time when I've felt I shouldn't have been so loud or yelled I'd go and apologize to the parent and they would say "oh no, you say whatever you need to, he doesn't listen to me" WTF?? lol

Parents are scared to be a parent to their kid nowadays to avoid them "rebeling" or shying off. Which by doing exactly what they are doing, causes that to happen. That's the part that would be hard for me to coach is if a kid is being a little prick, and I get on to him, his parents turn it around on me, which would not end well for them.

[Grandpa]

Originally Posted by BERT And no offense to parents on here, but some of these kids are real shitheads and apparently their parents don't get on to them at all. Cause I haven't pissed off a parent yet while coaching or "yelling" at their kid. Hell, most of the time when I've felt I shouldn't have been so loud or yelled I'd go and apologize to the parent and they would say "oh no, you say whatever you need to, he doesn't listen to me" WTF?? lol

Yes, it's true some kids are a serious pain in the ass. Some kids you can get away with yelling, others not so much. My little 5 year old girl is so sweet you just look upset with her and she will start to cry. So yelling at her isn't necessary. As a parent, I wouldn't allow my kids to play for a coach with a yelling and screaming style. Especially some of those coaches I have seen who scream profanities at the kids. If some coach tried that shit with my kid he'd be quickly finding out the nutritional value of his teeth.

Originally Posted by DirtyD Parents are scared to be a parent to their kid nowadays to avoid them "rebeling" or shying off. Which by doing exactly what they are doing, causes that to happen. That's the part that would be hard for me to coach is if a kid is being a little prick, and I get on to him, his parents turn it around on me, which would not end well for them.

LOL, you have no clue what you are talking about. You have no experience as a parent to draw any conclusions like that. People without kids telling other people with kids how to parent absolutely crack me up.

And what exactly would you do if a parent turned on you? That attitude is playing with fire in a big way. It's not your place to parent someone else's kid. If you're a coach and the kid is being a shit, you sit them out and they don't play. That's the extent of your involvement with it. You trying to turn on me and saying it wouldn't end well would be a big mistake on your part. Never attempt to get between a parent and their kid, it's not your place and the parent will always protect right or wrong in the situation.

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT LOL, you have no clue what you are talking about. You have no experience as a parent to draw any conclusions like that. People without kids telling other people with kids how to parent absolutely crack me up.

I don't remember specifically telling anyone EXACTLY how to parent? I just said be a parent, and not a best friend. Read, dipshit. Here we go with your bullshit "experience" rants again. I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about, but yet that's what I see everyday. Just because someone doesn't have kids of their own doesn't mean they don't know how to be a parent. What I said is exactly what happened to both of my cousins in high school, of whom I watched become drug addicts and constantly run away from home. I watched it with my own eyes. But again, it's something that differs from your opinion, and because it doesn't agree with your opinion, it's not true/fact/believeable/whatever the hell you want to call it.

Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT And what exactly would you do if a parent turned on you? That attitude is playing with fire in a big way. It's not your place to parent someone else's kid. If you're a coach and the kid is being a shit, you sit them out and they don't play. That's the extent of your involvement with it. You trying to turn on me and saying it wouldn't end well would be a big mistake on your part. Never attempt to get between a parent and their kid, it's not your place and the parent will always protect right or wrong in the situation.

Did I say it would get physical? Or are your just automatically assuming that so that you can go ahead and form an opinion off of very few words? I vote the latter. This forum has started to become a bust lately with all the same old shit that continues to pour out of a few mouths from some of the same old people.