re: T-ball coaching ethics debate.

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quote:Teach your kids to quit hitting to the pitcher, set them up to hit down third base line

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Please don't do as the poter suggests, just teach them what fundamentals and mechanics they can learn. Having them line up to hit the ball a certain way is just as bad and the throwing issues you originally brought up. There is not another league that they would ever "line up" to hit a baseball down the 3rd base line.

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Yea right. You can put the kid in the back of the box and have him pull the ball to the left side of the field and get a hit. Or have him hit it right back to the pitcher or straight to the 1st basekid and get out. Having a kid pull the ball is fundamentally sound.

I was almost to machine pitch at 7. Who are these kids still playing t-ball?

I'd teach my kids to hit it to 3rd every time.

ETA: Either that or bunt

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It was the deliberate avoidance of throwing the ball in the air to prevent overthrows that I thought was poor taste. What are those kids going to do at the next level, roll the ball to first?

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when they are older (at the next level) they will have the hand eye coordination to throw and catch.

At age 4, I could hit, throw and catch. some can. some cant.
we are all different.

It seems the better part of valor to teach your little guys to alligator too. its a skill, at that 'level'.