Knowing how to communicate to the player is an essential component of being a coach. Our clinics are designed to provide coaches of all skill levels the best professional instruction available. The clinics are "hands-on" as we encourage active participation by BOTH the coaches and players to enhance the clinics effectiveness.
"The Tiburon Little League has been involved with the Sportstime Baseball and Softball Company for the past 6 years. Sportstime is an integral part of our coaching and player development program. Steve and his staff bring a professional, positive and enthusiastic teaching approach that we want our coaches to incorporate into their practice and game routines." - Dan Hipple, Tiburon Little League President
Coaches and Team Clinics
- How to organize and effectively run practice from pre-season to season end to All-Stars to tournament play!
- The most important skills to teach at each age and level of play!
- Coaches do's and don'ts, your duties as a volunteer coach, parent-player issues, league official issues and umpire/on-field issues!
- Selecting the right equipment for players and team practices!
- Each Manager will receive the Sportstime Skills & Drills Training Booklet!
- Receive Sportstime and it’s participating sponsors giveaway and promotional items!
Team Training & Development
Our staff helps you deal with the critical problem faced by all coaches: how to make available practice time as productive as possible. We'll assist you in organizing and running your practices in ways that make the most efficient use of your time and helps ensure that all your players are continuously practicing proper mechanics.
Professional 3rd Party Tryout Evaluators
Professional On-Site Tryout Evaluators are now available for your leagues tryout programs. We help take the heat off of your board members during critical player ratings and placement! This program has become a very, very popular way for leagues and its board members to bring in 3rd party professional evaluators to rate and classify your kids. We can set up, run and rate players at your tryout or just provide your league professional evaluators to rate EACH player that participates in your tryout.
Topics to be Taught & Demonstrated:
Pitching/Throwing
- Arm care, proper arm action and various finger grips on the ball
- Stretch and wind-up delivery motions
- Control, movement and change of speeds
- Pick-off moves and base covering responsibilities
- Body & Arm Strengthening
- Body & Arm Mechanics & Motions
- Throwing Program, Accuracy, Mental Aspect
Hitting/Bunting
- Strength development for power
- Correct stance, grip & swing
- Hand-eye skill training
- Over 50 effective hitting drills
- Aggressive and confident approach
- Lots of quality supervised swings
- Description of a Good Hitter & Equipment Selection
- Productive Body Positioning
- Ball Tracking Skills
- Warm-up...Form-up...and...Time-up!!
- Timing, Rhythm & Balance
- Positive Swing Plane & Contact Points
Infield
- Ready position and field coverage
- Backhands, forehands and diving plays
- Tagging runners, rundowns, base positioning and pop-ups
- Infield team play for putouts, double plays and relaying throws
Outfield
We emphasize the importance of being competent at the outfield positions, especially when players begin at the teen level. Outfielders are schooled in fielding ground balls, judging line drives and fly balls and making accurate throws to all bases.
Catching
We teach our catchers the proper skills for: calling pitches, stances, receiving and framing pitches, throwing quickness and accuracy to all bases, blocking balls in the dirt, tagging runners, catching pop-ups, fielding bunts and setting the team defense.
Stretch-Flex and Agility-Quickness
The ability to coordinate movement effectively and economically in every direction is a common denominator of great athletes. Our training sessions begin with our stretch-flex program. The players warm-up by jogging and stretching each part of the body. We then begin work to improve each player's agility & quickness by jumping rope and performing multiple direction running drills.
