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Cost per game?
Most single day tournaments are 500 or more this season, which puts our organization out based on several things. We have an organization near us that does 3 team round robins on one field for $150. Those tournaments are more fun, less serious. A four team so you could be guaranteed 3 games...- John 800
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- Forum: Coaching Softball
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Drills for improving posture
My dd has a bad habit of leaning forward a little while pitching. What tips or drills does anyone have to help get rid of this? She is 12, moving up to 14u next year and has been injured alot the last couple years but hopefully has turned the corner from that.- John 800
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- Forum: Softball Pitching
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Playing time and competitiveness vs age. Thoughts?
The program my kids are in is through the community ed dept at their schoole to n a small town, we do not have big numbers in softball once school ball starts which is in 7th grade. The team I coached this year was mostly 2nd year 12u player going into 7th grade with 2 8th graders and 1 new to...- John 800
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new jersey town forces argumentative parents to be little league umpires
Interesting point, but either way it should not be completely off the table- John 800
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- Forum: Being a Softball Parent
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Team pitching practices
(Big Sigh) the parents here dont seem to get it. I have one girl who wants to pitch and enjoy it but needs alot of work. I showed mom one thing she was doing that needed to be watched and worked on and mom kind of shrugged it off as her not knowing anything about pitching or softball and...- John 800
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- Forum: Coaching Softball
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new jersey town forces argumentative parents to be little league umpires
As much as nobody wants to: give one warning and after that eject the kid along with the parent. Kid comes back next game, parent misses several games. If you dont you will deal with it all season, do that once with one parent and it would stop immediately. Most of these that are really over the...- John 800
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- Forum: Being a Softball Parent
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Team pitching practices
I am helping coach a local 12u softball team in what is mostly a volleyball small town, so for most kids softtball takes a back seat to volleyball. We struggle with pitching, right now many of the girls are still on the fence about pitching where they want to pitch, bit have not taken the step...- John 800
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Obstruction timing
Is obstruction called immediately? Or does it depends on the outcome of the play? If they are obstructed in a run down and end up safe at another base is it dead?- John 800
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- Forum: Softball Rules Questions
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First base safety bag/obstruction/runners lane
Ground ball, pitcher toss to 1b, 1b juggles the ball as the runner is coming in and backs up awkwardly almosst falling, she has a foot on the far foul side of the runners first base, and is streached towards second base, completely blocking the base. The runner slowed and almost stopped and...- John 800
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1st year 14 u team development
A little more detail: Of the 11 on the softball roster 10 play club volleyball and school volleyball. School volleyball is august-nov club is late jan-early may. School softball starts practicing in mid march and ends in late may, summer ball starts early jume and runs until mid July, fall...- John 800
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- Forum: Softball Discussions
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1st year 14 u team development
posted in the coaching forum, but it has not gotten any resonses so Ill try here: My Daughter is on a 14u team in our local league. We have a pitcher that is one of the stronger ones in the league, and a group of athletic girls, but almost all of them have volleyball as a higher priority than...- John 800
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14u team development
I am helping with my daughters first year 14u local league team, and not sure how to best develop them. They can hit lower level pitchers and are competitive locally, but struggle against quality pitching. They need better mechanics and better hitting and pitching strategies that is above my...- John 800
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Team Rules~No player/parent interaction at the ballpark
I have one girl on my team who is very talented, amazing attitude, thinks brilliantly at game speed at 9yo and is very very well composed. When I had a conversation with mom about her pitching mechanics mom who played at a high level herself didn’t know anything about why they had changed, just...- John 800
- Post #166
- Forum: Softball Discussions
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Team Rules~No player/parent interaction at the ballpark
In my case I am the coach, and normally that would be best to keep the team coach and parents/pitching coaches on the same page but lets be realistic here, most people do not communicate that well. I could not even get my kids parents to tell me when they were going to miss a game let alone talk...- John 800
- Post #160
- Forum: Softball Discussions
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Team Rules~No player/parent interaction at the ballpark
So at what point is this policy disclosed ? At tryouts? Before the first tournament? Weather I like it really doesn’t mean jack, weather a potential player likes it, and will play better under it is the issue. MY biggest concern as a parent is did I know what I was getting the kid into soon...- John 800
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- Forum: Softball Discussions
