LSU #1

Team Name
LSU #1
Location
Buffalo Trail
Date
03/20/2021
Start Time
5:30
End Time
7:25
EARLY ACTIVITY DRILL STARTS AT 5:15 (BELOW GOLD)
EARLY ACTIVITY Wiffle Circle stopwatch 5:15-5:30 timer 15 Minutes
Wiffle Circle is an Early Activity drill that can be run during the 15-minutes prior to practice start time.  It can also be ran as a pre-game drill...Read More
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Wiffle Ball Home Run Derby
PRACTICE STARTS AT 5:30 (BELOW BLACK)
WARM UP Dyn Warm Up LIVE stopwatch 5:30-5:45 timer 15 Minutes
~ LIVE EXAMPLE OF AN 8U DYNAMIC WARM UP  ~ The Dynamic Warm Up is today's warm up routine.  Gone are the days of standing in a circle and yanking...Read More
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Introductions & Warmups
EARLY BASERUNNING Airplane Take Offs stopwatch 5:45-5:50 timer 5 Minutes
Airplane Take Offs is a simple Early Baserunning drill to teach young players an athletic first step movement.  While categorized under the title of...Read More
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Stay low and go!
Relay Races stopwatch 5:50-6:00 timer 10 Minutes
Relay Races are a baseball friendly version of the standard relay race. Let's not make this more complicated that it is. Two equal lines, everybody runs,...Read More
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Relay Race
QUICK DEFENSE Four Corner Receiving stopwatch 6:00-6:05 timer 5 Minutes
Four-Corner Receiving is a drill to work on catching the baseball (basic receiving for beginning baseball players).  It is easy to execute, safe for beginning...Read More
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Take inventory of where the athletes are at skill-wise.
  WATER BREAK (5min)  
Bucket Free Throws stopwatch 6:10-6:20 timer 10 Minutes
Bucket Free Throws is a fun competition to finish practice with.  It is, as it sounds, the simple challenge of making a baseball into a bucket.  Just...Read More
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Fun if time
Stations (Groups rotate halfway through block)
Live BP
stopwatch 6:20-6:35 timer 15 Minutes
Tee work and live BP
Feet In Concrete
stopwatch 6:35-6:50 timer 15 Minutes
Structured Catch Play
stopwatch 6:50-7:05 timer 15 Minutes
  WATER BREAK (5min)  
Scrimmage stopwatch 7:10-7:25 timer 15 Minutes
A scrimmage is a time for kids to put the hard work into action, and experience the pressure of competition.  Simulate game play by splitting into groups...Read More
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"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."

– Derek Jeter, NY Yankees ('95-'14)

HARD WORK

  •  Working hard is a habit, and habits must be earned. DECIDE to work hard daily!
  •  Find a way. Won’t always feel like working hard. Compete, challenge another, grind.
  •  "Practice is what you make of it,” Raul Ibanez (1996-2014)