While working with my summer team 13s I noticed that they would benefit from daily reps of fundamental forms. From an idea I got off the net and then tweaked I put together the following routine which is done in warm-ups every day after run,stretch,short to long to short toss, underhand and dart toss.
FORMS
Done everyday as part of warm-ups
These are dry run “walk throughs” without a ball.
This provides extra reps in a short period of time 3-5min.
Coaches need to be monitoring and correcting.
All players do 1)-5) in unison on coach’s cadence. 6) on their own
1)Defensive stance: On “Ready, Release”
2)Infield:
a.Ball straight at.
b.Glove Side
c.Backhand
***2-3 times each to a command of “Ready, Release, Ball”
3)Ball over shoulder-Drop step
a. Left-Right-Straight over head
b. Right
c. Straight
4)Batting
a. Location on plate according to pitchers speed
b. Slo-mo swing
c. Bunting: location in box , form
5) Base running
a. Lead-off
b. secondary-Lead
c. Steal 1st steps
6)Position Specials (all at once on their own)
MI- Pivots for DP
Pitchers - Perfect Pitches or Picks to each base
Outfield – Fly ball set-up or do or die grounder
1B - return to base and stretch
Catchers - Footwork for throws
****all players fit into one of these categories as all play 2 positions
It worked so well with them thatI will be tweaking this once more for this springs HS team. Are there any more that you would add?
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