Youth baseball coach should build a culture of hitting with your kids. Dave has a strong viewpoint about how to look at bunts and walks in the pre-high school player development years. You might want to check this out and make sure you are developing hitters for high school or you might be a ‘ring-chaser’.

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It is estimated that 85% of youth baseball coaches have their own child on their teams. Everyone is familiar of the term ‘Daddy-Ball’. Dave talks about several items that can help coaches successfully maneuver the coach/parent-child/player scenario and avoid the ‘Daddy-Ball’ label. Want to have a healthy relationship while coaching your child? Here arr some ideas to make it work. Dave talks about playing for his own Dad while in college and how he made it work.

Dave Holt explains why adding competition to your baseball practice plans is vitally important for baseball coaches. Many competitive baseball drills are discussed as examples of  easy ways and methods to incorporate mini-competitions in your everyday baseball practice planning. Competition in practice starts with catch and throw warm-ups and is embedded in your entire youth baseball practice, including batting practice and ending with the sandlot scrimmage. Want to make baseball fun, enjoyable and exciting…then you want to listen in.

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Dave Holt talks about the benefits and features of playing a “sandlot’ style scrimmage at every practice. Want to build baseball skills and increase the ‘fun-level’ then make sure you incorporate some type of scrimmage in your practices. Using the 3-Team format it is pretty easy to plan and execute an incredibly fun practice scrimmage in under 30 minutes. Listen to some of Dave’s suggestions to increase your player’s fun-level and bring back the sandlot days of baseball.

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How do we as youth baseball coaches provide practice opportunities to help our players build ball handling and throwing skills? Dave Holt’s Rapid Fire Fungo Drill is an excellent drill template to follow and use at any level of baseball. Our kids need to be able to perform the most basic ball handling skills at a pretty high level and at the same time build arm strength to prepare to excel on the 60’/90’ fields. And, this drill is an instantly ramps up the player’s fun-level by embedding mini-competitions. Use this drill to Increase reps, build up arms, improve ball handling skills and provide an action packed, fun practice.

Dave Holt helps baseball coaches understand the real important stuff that coaches should emphasize during ballgames. Are you really a ‘baseball coach’ or are you performing for the parents. Often times much of the game coaching is just a show. Find out how to best serve your players and give them room to do what they do. Games are the player’s “time to shine”. Coaches step aside and release the kids to play the game…just like the pro’s do it.

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Maybe more important than baseball knowledge is being able to ‘manage’ a group of (12) players. Being able to communicate verbally and non-verbally, teach, complement, critique without being critical and establish your rules, procedures and expectations is vitally essential for effective coaching. Having ‘classroom management’ skills can carry a coach a long way to being a good leader and getting the most out of your ballplayers. More on Team Management

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Dave dives deeper into your baseball coaching mind to see what you are thinking about your coaching approach and philosophy. Are you going to be a difference maker and leave a life-long impression with your players? What do you think about winning, hitting approach, playing time. baseball practice, game coaching, teaching the intangibles, communication styles, player development and what is your 'end-game' goals. At the end of the day are you going to make a difference.

One the best if not the best baseball practice planning tool is the 3-
Team-it template. Dave explains the way he organizes baseball practice to make coaches look like baseball experts. Your players maximize their time, get plenty of rep, touches, and swings while embedding the drudgery of drills into mini-competitions. No standing around anymore. No boring practices that chase kids to play soccer. Highly energized practices and kids have a ton of fun at the same time. For more baseball info go to: Coach and Play Baseball.com

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Dave Holt explains advises youth baseball coaches to put all their cards on the table and communicate with baseball parents. Parents want to know who they are dropping their kids off with. This is a great time to share with parents about your style, philosophies and approach to coaching youth baseball. As the season ebbs and flows you can always fall back on your style, approach and procedures when issues emerge.

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