Teaching Baseball Hitting Fundamentals

teaching baseball hitting fundamentals




Teaching your Child the Fundamentals of Catching Baseballs.?

My son just turned 5 yrs. and we missed Tee Ball sign up. He’s really good at hitting even without the Tee but I want to work on his catching.

Here are some interesting articles about how to teach catching. I especially like the last one’s suggestions:

http://www.hsbaseballweb.com/baseball_basics.htm

http://www.recreate.com/Pages/articles/ssingle2.shtml

http://www.stayinthezone.com/news/186.htm

http://www.qcbaseball.com/skills/playingcatch1.aspx

A nice, brief video that I like:

http://sports.expertvillage.com/videos/baseball-training-catching-throw.htm

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