adantew1965 wrote:I am not saying that non-athletes cannot teach or that great players make good coaches. But for parents to blame a coach, with years of playing and coaching experience, for their child's hitting woes, is ridiculous..
I blame them for taking money to teach things that a half hour of studying video of elite hitters would disprove.
adantew1965 wrote: Players sometimes don't connect or understand. That's OK! It'll come with experience. .
Or they will be one of the majority who drops out of the game along the way.
adantew1965 wrote: Our problem as parents is we don't have the patience to let it happen...
I'd say our problem as parents is we don't do the due diligence study to know for sure who we should let instruct our kid but instead trust resume or title.
adantew1965 wrote: If your child has the talent, he/she will get it done..
If your kid has good to great physical ability and a swing that takes .23 seconds instead of .13 seconds they will never hit good pitching. Why is hitting the only sport where people say it's all about talent rather than skill? I think it's because few have studied it enough to understand it.
http://thetalentcode.com/ adantew1965 wrote: And it won't be because of their hitting coach (coaches who never see the kid in live action)..
Some do go see them in live action but setting that aside, yeah, most of the credit goes to the kid who out worked everyone. A bad swing can often beat a good swing if the good swing kid doesn't work hard. All a good instructor can do is shorten the trial and error process. In a brief youth athletic career, that can be huge.
adantew1965 wrote: There are lots of people who can teach hitting.
Well yeah, but most of them teach something that a short review of video of elite hitters will show to be horse puckey. As always, compare everything you hear about swinging a bat to lots of slow motion video of the best in the world.
adantew1965 wrote: Only someone with playing experience understands that you don't over analyze...it just creates confusion...
I'm pretty sure we all understand that concept.
adantew1965 wrote: That's why I hate to hear parents barking instructions in the middle of a kid's at-bat. Trust me...they don't want to hear it.
Yeah it's seldom in game instructions can help anything unless you are the one who works with their instruction and it's a reminder of something they already know and that should be kept to a minimum.