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1st Indoor Practice

H Halfmoonslider100+ posts
Morning folks...We don't start our HS season until mid May here in WI. Our HS coach asks me to take both the JV and Varsity indoors which starts this afternoon. On Sunday's we are in a Junior High gym so the longest throw is about 70-90'. I've always had the pitchers after going through some mechanics and drills, throw from 50' at 50-60%. This early I've had them throw 10-15 FB, 10-15 CU and 10-15 breaking balls for mechanics and location. This has worked very nicely for us in the past.

I am looking for some of your suggested drills for indoors for all phases of the game. I have had my routine, but I don't want it to get stale. Also if you put a percentage on time spent indoors, what is your optimal breakdown. In other words do you spend 33% on hitting drills, 33% on fielding and 33% on throwing...or something else? I appreciate your thoughts.
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R rocket100+ posts
I would consider stations for indoor practice. Your players are old enough to get in some good work, without needing a coach to stand over them at all times. I believe stations would allow you work on many drills for every aspect of the game.

Set up tees for opposite field, up the middle and pulling the ball. Have short toss and a station for them to hit live. Also, have stations for fielding drills. Try to get as much accomplished as possible in a short period of time. I would let the pitchers throw after everyone has completed all the stations. This would allow you to supervise the pitchers.

I would also consider doing a lot of conditioning while indoors. You don't want to spend your outside practices trying to get in shape.

It is almost impossible to long toss indoors, but I have found that giving a kid a bucket of balls and telling him to throw into a net across the gym works nicely. Tell him to focus on long tossing through the net, and not just throwing to it. It isn't great, but it does allow them to stretch their arm out a little.

Have a nice day.
H Halfmoonslider100+ posts
Swingbuster & Redbird, I just bought a hands back hitter as well and frankly I'm not getting it. Are you using the balls that came with it only? I wrap my regular sized wiffles in duck tape normally and they are definitely too heavy. I get the concept of the device, but frankly I can go through "relax, set, trigger (or similar) and then soft toss and get the same effect. Am I missing something?
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