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Putting Across Your Ideas
- Stick to fundamentals.
- Plan your practices.
- Have a long-range goal. Keep it in sight as you plan.
- Whenever possible, give individual attention.
- Try to encourage players to practice on their own once you
have shown them a skill and corrected their mistakes.
- Progress only as fast as the players can absorb it.
- Interject new skills and drills to dress up the
fundamentals.
- Keep charts.
- Be patient.
- Have Fun
Follow these steps when teaching:
- Explain and demonstrate
- Have players perform the skill
- Correct faults
- Repeat correct form.
Getting Players to Practice
Fundamentals
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Introduce novel and interesting games,
skills and drills when teaching fundamentals.
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Make your drills competitive.
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Change the drill or fundamental before
interest lags.
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Show enthusiasm and genuine interest
yourself
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Have players "buddy up" and work together
after practice, correcting and assisting each other.
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It not only eases your burden, but makes
players stop and think about what they are doing.
This may be used extensively and successfully from novice to senior level.
Understanding Your Players
- No two are exactly alike.
- Adjust your methods and techniques to fit their
differences.
- Get to know each player as an individual.
- Your job does not end when you leave the diamond.
- Be patient and sympathetic to a player's limitation.
- Get the team together occasionally on a social basis.
- Go as a team to see a softball/baseball game if possible.
- You must gain a player's confidence before he or she
will respond to your teaching and leadership.
- Remember how you thought and felt when you were a
child.
How To Do A Better Job of Coaching
- Enthusiasm, patience and genuine desire to know and to
help each girl is essential.
- Constant self-analysis of your coaching methods and
techniques is necessary.
- Search constantly for new and better methods and
techniques.
- Attend coaching refresher courses.
- Talk to other coaches and read authoritative material
on your sport.
Teaching Game Fundamentals
- Whether your team plays "pee-wee" or "senior" softball,
the basic skills do not change.
- The most important factor is to teach the RIGHT
TECHNIQUE EARLY.
- Then constant repetition of the right way will eventually make its execution automatic.
A Few Tips On Teaching Game Fundamentals
- Break down each skill into its parts. It is easier to teach and learn when
presented in this manner.
- Use games, skill and competitive drills to put across fundamentals.
- Be patient, praise improvement but don't be satisfied with anything less
than perfection.
- Analyze each fundamental game skill.
Evaluate your teaching methods and techniques constantly.
- In all drills insist upon good form. Don't let them get sloppy and
careless.
- Stop to check all errors. Time is always too short.
- Once you have taught the proper techniques, pair
the players off so that they may practice together.
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