Coaching Little League

Little league can be a great source of enjoyment for your kids provided they receive the proper type of coaching. The problem with many little league teams and organizations is that coaches are all volunteer and consist primarily of Dad's with kids playing. This is fine provided the new little league coaches receive the proper training required to help them teach the kids the skills required to play little league.

Often many of these new coaches have some background in baseball that they learned as a kid in little league, middle school or high school baseball programs. While this experience is great, they may not have learned the proper batting techniques for becoming an effective hitter. There are many baseball skills that have advanced over the years and new little league coaches should become familiar with them. This includes proper hitting, pitching, fielding and base running techniques. I suggest all coaches especially new ones take some time reading and learning before passing on knowledge to their little league teams.

Here are a few inexpensive ebooks and tutorials to help you better prepare your kids for years of baseball enjoyment. You can learn some great little league batting drills from this ebook. Pitching seems to be the area most coaches lack when it comes to baseball knowledge. Teaching a youngster how to pitch in little league can be quite a challenge. They need to have adequate strength, flexibility and accuracy. Here is a guide that will help you teach your kids proper little league pitching techniques