Tee Ball Coaching & Tips

Things like that are great and I'm sure lots of coaches use them, but when is it that playing gives way to drill after drill, after monotonous drill?

It sounds to me like lots of people know about these ways to allow the players to play, but I wonder how many really use them as a regular part of teaching the game. I'm a proponent of drills, but not a big fan of having players standing around waiting for their turns.

We've seen lots of posts describing how to keep that from happening by having several "stations" for many different drills to keep from wasting time, but when do the players get to try that stuff in a game situation?

Doing it in a real game only works for the kids in the line up, so it seems to me that these "make shift" practice games are very important. But, I don't see them used as a regular part of practices very often. Usually, by the time a coach gets through working on the normal stretching, infield, outfield, BP and anything special what he wants to emphasize, time has run out.

For sure I don't have all the answers, but I know when the kids are allowed to play in those kinds of games, they show a heck of a lot more interest than they do in the routine practice things. And, unless my son's teams are the only ones in the world where the coaches are constantly having to try to get them focused, I'd say having them do things that keep that focus while getting to use the things they're taught are good things.