In the NE/Mid Atlantic you have to do what you got to do! Local facilities taken up by indoor soccer, WTH. So try to work with what you have when you need to get in that 30 pitch pen.
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Originally Posted by PA2016Backstopdad:
In the NE/Mid Atlantic you have to do what you got to do! Local facilities taken up by indoor soccer, WTH. So try to work with what you have when you need to get in that 30 pitch pen.
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Nice pics PA. Glad to see my son isn't the only knucklehead who doesn't know how to dress for the cold weather.
My kids in the garage with the net setup and a hitting Tee. Put the portable heater in there.
joes87-JR. has a tee in the basement and hits into a thick moving blanket, still found a way to tear up the insulation. Also has a Swing Away but prefers the tee, good thing his uncle paid the $400 for it to collect dust and not me.
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Let's do this....Will you Be Ready...
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We used the basement when they were younger. Ours is finished and we recently had it remodeled so he's been moved to the garage.
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Let's do this....Will you Be Ready...
Classic, I love the video! I remember doing January/February long toss with my son at our local field when he was in HS. He would take a 5 gallon bucket filled with balls and throw them to me while moving backwards. I do remember many times where the field was frozen.
Fortunately, through college, the local indoor baseball facility allowed college guys to work out from 7-10 AM for a small fee.
A few years ago I ran a cable across the top of the garage, attached a section of batting cage net and attached a throwing pad (I got it from Oates). He used the net to hit off a tee and the pad to do weighted balls. Recently doing off season work it rained everyday so my son rotated weighted balls and then simulated long toss by moving closer to the pad and net and throwing as he would to a partner in long toss. Not perfect but really not bad at all. We took a 5 day family vacation and brought a ball and long sock and did his throwing 4 of the 5 days with the sock drill. Necessity is the mother of invention.