- May 1, 2018
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Hi everyone. First post on DFP, glad I found it, seems like a great resource.
I'm the head coach for a 10U travel team. I'm having trouble with some of my players being scared in the box and simply not swinging during the game. They are all great hitters in the batting cage and have received excellent instruction over the last few years -- form and technique are not really the problem. When it's a pitching machine, or a coach pitching, they can crush the ball, but when they're facing live pitching in a game some of them just freeze. We've taught them how to get their timing off the pitchers windup and they can do it fine in practice.
I think the biggest part of it is fear. Some of them are actually stepping back in the box as the pitch is coming, or are only thinking about jumping out of the way.
How do you help a player overcome that?? I've exhausted all my options of what I can tell them as far as the physical process, routine, and approach, they're just not doing it. I want to see these girls crushing balls, not jumping out of the way of a strike!!
I'm the head coach for a 10U travel team. I'm having trouble with some of my players being scared in the box and simply not swinging during the game. They are all great hitters in the batting cage and have received excellent instruction over the last few years -- form and technique are not really the problem. When it's a pitching machine, or a coach pitching, they can crush the ball, but when they're facing live pitching in a game some of them just freeze. We've taught them how to get their timing off the pitchers windup and they can do it fine in practice.
I think the biggest part of it is fear. Some of them are actually stepping back in the box as the pitch is coming, or are only thinking about jumping out of the way.
How do you help a player overcome that?? I've exhausted all my options of what I can tell them as far as the physical process, routine, and approach, they're just not doing it. I want to see these girls crushing balls, not jumping out of the way of a strike!!