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I have this situation with my daughters. My son, the youngest, isn't much interested in baseball yet. I played baseball, not at a high level or anything specia
by NDizzle 6y ago
I have this situation with my daughters. My son, the youngest, isn't much interested in baseball yet.
I played baseball, not at a high level or anything special, but I played and loved it. Then I had kids, the first two girls, and I got them started with fastpitch softball. It took me awhile to get up to speed with what I'll call "modern training methods" - and did a lot of trial and, unfortunately, error with my oldest daughter.
I've coached both of them and I can say that when I started training my younger daughter how to hit, at age 6, I had about 4 years worth of modern training/coaching knowledge fresh in my head. My older kid, who started at 9, had a dad who kind of knew how it worked, but it was rusty.
So what I ended up with is an older daughter who became great, eventually, around 14u, but spent a lot of time on the bench and a lot of time spent re-learning how to correctly do things.
Then I have a 10 year old (at the moment) who was taught the correct way to do everything, from step 1.
Currently, the only objective results I can give you is that I had one kid who didn't make any teams for two entire seasons before making one because we attended 90% of their practices (open practices). Then I had another kid who has only not made one team in the last 2 years. This fall she made 4 out of 4 teams that she tried out for. She finally failed to make a team when we went over a large organization in Oklahoma that plays at an extremely high level, and they were only looking for 2 more players to complete their roster.
- NDizzle 6y agoAnother "hearsay" tale I can relay is from my childhood. We'd play wiffleball very seriously in our neighborhood. To the point that we kept summer stats. The pitchers in those games, those leagues, were little brothers throwing full speed. Because us older boys (10-13) threw too hard. My brother and my friends brother were the main pitchers, at like age 7-8, and went on to be very successful baseball players.
- rmb177 6y agoHa! Keeping wiffleball stats. That's great. The real question is did you make an APBA card for yourself based on those stats http://apbagames.com/apbabaseball http://apbagames.com/apbabaseball http://apbagames.com/wp-content/uploads/baseball/APBA_own_card.pdf http://apbagames.com/wp-content/uploads/baseball/APBA_own_ca...
- ryanhuff 6y agoNot mentioned in your story is birth month of your two daughters, and how that aligned with the sports season. Its been shown that there are a greater percentage of summer birthdays in professional baseball, as an example. Older kids in the age group (particularly at young ages) have a developmental advantage going in compared to younger kids, which can result in more reps, more opportunities to improve, and more playing time. This all compounds over the youth years. https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/why-do-so-many-pro-baseball-players-have-august-birthdays.html https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/why-do-so-many-pro-basebal... https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/why-many-olympic-athletes-have-early-birthdays https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/why-many-olym...
- NDizzle 6y agoI have read about that too. In my situation it's backwards. My older daughter is Feb, younger is Oct. In fastpitch the season turns with the calendar, so the Feb birth month would have the advantage.
- lowdose 6y agoNext year she is ready and going to kill it. I wonder if acting would help kids to get a better grip on reality.