Practice is very important if a player wants to find any success with baseball, or anything for that matter. You want your team to play the same way that they practice. When they are in a game, tired and behind in the score, you want them to play at the same level that you have been coaching them at.
You want to cover everything in practice, from footwork to batting in a clutch situation, because those same skills are going to come forward when they are playing in a difficult game. You need to give them the skills that they can fall back on.
You should never neglect anything when you are hosting a practice. It may be tempting to focus more on offense than defense, but by doing so your team is going to be hurt defensively in games. How your
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So, how do you plan practices?
In your practice, you want to plan ahead. You should also keep your practices changing, so that you never fall into a pattern where you are teaching the same thing over and over. By keeping the practices changing, your players will not become bored. You also help to keep them concentrated on what you are trying to teach them. This makes the overall practice a more productive experience, and that makes games much more productive as well.
This all comes down to pre-planning.
Pre-planning can begin as early as winter. You should sit down with your other coaches and begin planning what you want to accomplish in your upcoming spring practices. If you are practicing indoors, you can begin practicing in the winter. So, starting early with planning is very important. If you are having practices indoors, you are going to need to plan practices that are right for indoor environments. Taking a grounder off the grass is one thing. Taking a grounder in an indoor area off a rubbery track is a completely different situation. Hence, the importance of planning in all