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Polk Drill Series

CL Coach Labeots100+ posts
We are looking to use the Ron Polk drill series( From his Baseball Playbook) in our practices this coming season. The series seems to cover most skills and would accomplish this in an efficient amount of time.

Practice would be Jog, Stretch, Throw, Individual position drills (15min), 3-4 Polk Series Drills (rotating them to cover all in a week)20-30min, and then on to our main focus for the day.

Have any of you used these drills as a series? We're wondering what we might run into as problems. I'm sure we will adjust them after the season, but we'd like to hear from experience. Or, do you have a better drill series that you use?

I will post results of using the series at the end of the season.
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S Sorpe10+ posts
I used the series with my Legion team last summer. I modified some of the drills as practice time was short and we had to adjust. I think the series work well. My players moved through them (once they learned; there is a learning curve)well and liked doing them because of the variety and quick pace. I will use them again.
CL Coach Labeots100+ posts
Sorpe,

That's good to hear. I feel it will be alot of work to impliment this , I'm hoping it will pay off in the long term. Did the players ever get to a point where they knew what drills to do? Also, did you name each drill or just use the #s given?

After running these with the HS team I am going to attempt to run them with my 13U team in the summer. I feel the 13U will need more of the coaches reteaching each time.
S Sorpe10+ posts
Hi Coach L.

The players did get to the point of being able to move to the next drill without prompting. As far as naming them, I don't recall doing so. In the teaching phase, we just described what we wanted done. After that, if the players were unsure of what drill was next, we used a short description rather than a name or number.
GoodieGoodie10+ posts
Coach Polk is a well respected coach and I have heard him speak at several clinics, the most recent was at the Baseball Bash in Richmond, Va.
We have developed a 12 drills series to fit into want we wanted to accomplish in our practice. It is fast paced and the kids love it. This summer we were fortune enough to be able to put it on DVD.
As any coach knows, the key is to keep everyone involved.


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StyleMismatchStyleMismatch100+ posts
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We had to rotate kids, mainly pitchers who also played other positions. I tried to keep track so that everybody split time more or less evenly. Life would be easier if everyone only played one position!


That's EXACTLY what I've run into, plus limited practice time. The concept is great, but often requires some adjustments to implement.
redbird5redbird510,000+ posts
Coach,

My college coach was a Polk disciple. We used these drills for he 1st half of practice and intersquad'd for the last half.

We didn't get to know the drills, per se, but our coach would call out: "Pitchers...PFPs and pickoffs at 2B with SS and 3B. Catchers and 3B...pop up communications. OF...flyball communications. 15 minutes...go"

I use it with my travel teams. The hardest part in doing it exactly as Coach Polk describes is having the sheer number of players needed to do them all.
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GoodieGoodie10+ posts
Redbird,

I agree totally. The number issue stumped me for years.

We sat down and tried to come up with a way that everyone stayed involved and, with only 2 coaches, keep an eye on each portion of the drill.
As you know, time management is such a key ingredient to running a successful program. With the drill series, fundamentals (PFP's,bunt "d", picks, rundowns, communication, ect.) are covered with time left for offensive stations.

Where do you coach in VA? I coached up there for 5 years.



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