Thursday, February 10, 2011

How To Teach Your Child To Play Baseball

By Elvis White


Patience is the key to mastering the art of hitting a baseball. It has always been pretty difficult to learn how to hit a baseball properly and will obviously take your child some time to learn. You must thus patiently work with your child to get better.

The key to succeeding in this not getting frustrated. Make sure you work out for short periods of time thus keeping your child interested and try to make the drills fun so that your child enjoys the game rather than getting frustrated.

Never neglect the basics of hitting. Your kid may have a rough idea of what to do but it is always better if you instill the fundamentals in him. Take him to the batters box and show him the proper stance and how the bat is held and other pointers and tips.

Always a reminder to your kid is that even major league players do this and practice the basics every day.

You could try keeping the ball on a tee and making your kid hit it. This would help train your kids eyes to focus on the ball while hitting it and increase your hitting ability. This would work better initially rather than normal hitting practices.

Teeing off can be done any where. You could work with your schedule and use your free spare time for practice. There are no restrictions on the number of times you need to hit a ball. In fact the more you practice the better you will get.

Fun is a major part of playing baseball. The part where you hit is fun for every one and you must make sure your child enjoys even practice sessions as much as games. There is no end to the joy your child will get while playing.

Remember that your kid may get bored after some hitting. This is why it is better that you planning your session. To keep up his interest it is better that you change activities or end your whole schedule.




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