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re: Looking for parental advice from the ot re: kids travel ball
Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:09 am to mandevilletiger34
Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:09 am to mandevilletiger34
Travel ball for coaches pitch is pretty pointless unless you have the time, the money, and a child that can handle the bullshite. Whatever you do, dont become a year round player at that age..
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Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:13 am to mandevilletiger34
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Have parents noticed that kids in travel ball tend to have a much better chance at playing in high school than kids who have the skills but only grew up through rec league
In most cases, yes. but there are exceptions for really good athletes that don't necessarily need tons of reps to be good. Baseball, unlike football, is very much a repetition game.
My opinion, but my kid played travel ball and football his whole life. Now he is a pitcher only in High School, and gave up football in 9th.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:13 am to mandevilletiger34
I don't want to have kids because I don't want to spend every summer weekend watching twelve year olds play baseball in Huntsville, AL.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:22 am to mandevilletiger34
He is 7. How do you know this just isn't a phase. Next week he might be obsessed with Power Rangers.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:25 am to mandevilletiger34
Travel baseball for a 7 year old is crazy. No way I would ever go for that. Some parents are just suckers.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to pick my 9 year old son up early from school to drive him 2 hours for an off season wrestling workout all weekend.
Like I said, some parents are just stupid crazy. Not me, we are under control..
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to pick my 9 year old son up early from school to drive him 2 hours for an off season wrestling workout all weekend.
Like I said, some parents are just stupid crazy. Not me, we are under control..
Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:29 am to Winston Cup
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when did select baseball start being called travel ball?
When talent was no longer a requirement.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 11:31 am to mandevilletiger34
7 is too young. When he gets to middle school find a team that only plays in Spring/Summer. 10 years ago when I played select ball I was on a team like that. I played football in fall, basketball in winter, and travel baseball from March/April until about school started back and then football started. The team I was on also didn't play every weekend. A couple weekends a month and we had enough players where a kid or 2 could miss for vacation or whatever.
Playing one sport as a kid is bullshite unless you have Bryce Harper type talent when you know the kid is REALLY a stud.
Playing one sport as a kid is bullshite unless you have Bryce Harper type talent when you know the kid is REALLY a stud.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 11:40 am
Posted on 6/9/17 at 12:27 pm to mandevilletiger34
Look, if your kid has the physical tools to help a high school team, the coach won't give a crap if he played travel ball growing up.
Your son just needs to play and learn the game and enjoy it.
He also needs to be well rounded and do other stuff on the weekend like go to the pool and have sleep over and all kinds of other stuff that won't happen if he plays travel ball all weekend every weekend of the summer.
Your son has a chance to get burnt out and it really isn't making him a better ball player. In fact if he is a pitcher it will hurt him in the long run rather than helping.
Play rec call and maybe join a team to play a couple of tournaments after the season and let your son be a kid and not a baseball robot the rest of his summer.
Your son just needs to play and learn the game and enjoy it.
He also needs to be well rounded and do other stuff on the weekend like go to the pool and have sleep over and all kinds of other stuff that won't happen if he plays travel ball all weekend every weekend of the summer.
Your son has a chance to get burnt out and it really isn't making him a better ball player. In fact if he is a pitcher it will hurt him in the long run rather than helping.
Play rec call and maybe join a team to play a couple of tournaments after the season and let your son be a kid and not a baseball robot the rest of his summer.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 12:33 pm to HottyToddy7
Travel ball has absolutely nothing to do with any development, nothing. The development comes from the competition, training, and the amount of time your kid plays. Are 10 rec league games as good as 10 rec league games plus 30 travel ball games? Of course not.
You are much better off just taking your kid to the ball park on the weekend mornings for an hour of hitting and throwing then taking a kid under 13-14 all over the state.
Pay for your kid to go to some legit camps, that kind of thing.
Yeah of course most HS and All-state teams play travel ball, because most of those kids want to put in the time, money, and effort to play more. Its more about that then needing to travel.
You are much better off just taking your kid to the ball park on the weekend mornings for an hour of hitting and throwing then taking a kid under 13-14 all over the state.
Pay for your kid to go to some legit camps, that kind of thing.
Yeah of course most HS and All-state teams play travel ball, because most of those kids want to put in the time, money, and effort to play more. Its more about that then needing to travel.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 1:03 pm to mandevilletiger34
I have 2 sons, the younger played travel ball for 6 years, the older 4 years, so TIFWIW.
7 is too young for travel ball, IMO. Let your kid be a beast in league ball for a couple more years, then re-consider.
My experience is that yes, you can easily see the difference between the kids who played league, and those who played travel ball. We have a relatively small district where baseball isn't supported at all, so there is usually never more than 15 or 16 on the team. My youngest just graduated, and I don't know of any kids who played much travel ball at all who weren't starters by their sophomore year. Both of mine started as freshmen.
7 is too young for travel ball, IMO. Let your kid be a beast in league ball for a couple more years, then re-consider.
My experience is that yes, you can easily see the difference between the kids who played league, and those who played travel ball. We have a relatively small district where baseball isn't supported at all, so there is usually never more than 15 or 16 on the team. My youngest just graduated, and I don't know of any kids who played much travel ball at all who weren't starters by their sophomore year. Both of mine started as freshmen.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 1:37 pm to mandevilletiger34
Gonna depend on how things are run at the school. If they're good enough they'll make it. If the coach is bedded in and has favorites then you gotta worry about that
Soccer and baseball are the sports this happens the most. Basketball and football, the kids skillz will speak for themselves.
Soccer and baseball are the sports this happens the most. Basketball and football, the kids skillz will speak for themselves.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 1:44 pm to mandevilletiger34
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This one is in game day clothes before he walks out of his room in the morning ready to watch or play something athletic.
Just because he likes to dress like a player doesn't mean he's destined for the big leagues.
7 is too young for travel anything.
One thing I can't stand is when parents dress their kids in the stupid under armor or nike shirts that say shite like "BEAST IN THE GOAL" and shite like that.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 1:52 pm to mandevilletiger34
Baseball is all about fundamentals.
Doesn't matter where you learn those fundamentals as long as you learn them.
Travel ball would give him a chance to compete against better pitchers though.
Doesn't matter where you learn those fundamentals as long as you learn them.
Travel ball would give him a chance to compete against better pitchers though.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 1:53 pm to HottyToddy7
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He also needs to be well rounded and do other stuff on the weekend like go to the pool and have sleep over and all kinds of other stuff that won't happen if he plays travel ball all weekend every weekend of the summer.
but on travel ball, the kids make very close friendships and spends lots of social time with each other, stupid arse beotch.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 1:55 pm to mandevilletiger34
7 is too young.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 1:57 pm to HottyToddy7
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Look, if your kid has the physical tools to help a high school team, the coach won't give a crap if he played travel ball growing up.
Unless his competition for a roster spot has similar physical skills but is far more developed.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 2:12 pm to Don Johnson
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Unless his competition for a roster spot has similar physical skills but is far more developed.
If your kid has to worry about competition to even make the HS team, then wasting money on travel ball is not going to make any sense. I'm sorry.
Again, this wears off slowly over time but its all about the time spent practicing. Until you really start seeing good breaking balls, travel ball is pretty worthless. Your time and money are much better off spent spending 2-3 days a week for 1-2 hours with your kid at the local ball park or park throwing, practicing throwing, and hitting. Most of that can be better practiced with a dad then in a game.
One game your kid gets 3-4 ABs and a handful of plays on Defense. Pitching is not much better. You can get much more work than that in with 30 minutes and 10 baseballs at the local park.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 2:31 pm to Chad504boy
Mother fricker I have done both. Don't get pissed that you pay all the money in the world for your kid to play travel ball and someone makes an argument against it.
Seeing the same kids every weekend is not making the kid well rounded. The kids that play rec ball have tons of other interest and are just not good at sports a lot of times. Does that mean your son shouldn't learn to enjoy what they enjoy? How in the world is it bad to learn different skills and different activities rather than just baseball with the same kids and not giving him a chance to learn who and what he likes to do it with?
I will put it this way, playing travel ball isn't going to be the deciding factor on if your kid gets on a college team. That talent and mental capabilities are natural and will get developed by any HS coach with his salt.
Seeing the same kids every weekend is not making the kid well rounded. The kids that play rec ball have tons of other interest and are just not good at sports a lot of times. Does that mean your son shouldn't learn to enjoy what they enjoy? How in the world is it bad to learn different skills and different activities rather than just baseball with the same kids and not giving him a chance to learn who and what he likes to do it with?
I will put it this way, playing travel ball isn't going to be the deciding factor on if your kid gets on a college team. That talent and mental capabilities are natural and will get developed by any HS coach with his salt.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 2:33 pm to HottyToddy7
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he kids that play rec ball have tons of other interest and are just not good at sports a lot of times. Does that mean your son shouldn't learn to enjoy what they enjoy? How in the world is it bad to learn different skills and different activities rather than just baseball with the same kids and not giving him a chance to learn who and what he likes to do it with?
your fat arse kid getting guitar lessons isn't taking him nowhere in life.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 2:39 pm to mandevilletiger34
He's 7 years old. 7 is most kids first year playing without a tee. Give it a few more years and see how good your kid's talent level is. Then if he's obviously more skilled than the rest of the rec league, look at travel ball in a few years.
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