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  1. Here is a fairly good resource for youth coaches and parents of young players. There is a lot of free content that you can use in your practices or to help your kids. Hope you get some use out of it. Youth Baseball Insider
  2. A very common problem and I've seen it on my rec teams and travel teams over the years. Bottom line is you need to give the players a skill to ensure they are prepared to get out of the way of the ball if it's coming at them. Teaching them how to get out of the way correctly will usually give them confidence going forward to stand in and hit. Here is what I do: 1. Assume right handed batter. reverse for left handed. 2. Teach them the minute they see a ball coming toward them to turn to their right ducking their head and placing the end of the bat on the ground behind them. What I'm saying is they quickly turn to the right and teaching them to put the end of the bat on the ground will automatically make them bend over. 3. The player should now have his back to the pitcher and is bent over. 4. The players back is also at an angle so if he does get hit the ball will most likely just glance off the back and hit the screen. That obviously will hurt much less than if hit straight on. 5. Teaching kids to jump back out of the way is a sure fire way to get them hit very hard and keep them from standing in to hit. This could be a little confusing to explain in an email so please reply back if you need further clarificaion. You might also check out other baseball coaching tips at our website: Youth Baseball InsiderMy link
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