Red Cap - Fundamental Movement Skills
Red Cap - Fundamental Movement Skills Coordination – Juggling 2 balls with 2 hands for 5 seconds using transfer or cross method Drill: Juggling in pairs Goal: Introduce the importance of eye-hand coordination to athletes. Description: Players are placed in pairs. Holding a ball in their right hand, the players are exchanging (under hand toss) their ball to their partner at the same time, making sure they throw the ball with their right hand and receive it with their left hand...
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Red Cap - Throwing
Red Cap – Throwing Roll 5 balls to a player standing at the shortstop position and have the player throw 3/5 balls to a player positioned on 1st base. At this stage it is possible to judge a player’s ability to throw the ball the full distance to 1st base without the ball bouncing. Below is a drill which can be used to prepare players for this task: CHAMP Objective: Practice throwing and receiving Description: - 1 adult for every 2 players or players in partners if they are capable of throwing and catching the ball back and forth - Every time a ball is caught by one of the two players, they get a letter from the word “CHAMP”...
Red Cap - Receiving
Red Cap – Receiving With a coach standing in front of the player at 15 feet, the player will receive 5 ground balls, 5 fly balls and 5 thrown balls. The player must catch 13 balls out of 15 total. Below is a drill that can be used to prepare players for this task: “ALL MESSED-UP” Goal: Help players catch the ball from every direction Description: In pairs with no gloves, players face each other about 6 feet apart...
Red Cap - Baserunning
Red Cap - Baserunning A coach is standing down at 3rd base. The player takes a position at 1st base keeping only one foot on the base. When the player is ready, the coach says ”Go” so the player can leave...
Red Cap - Hitting
Red Cap – Hitting - Able to hit 3/5 fair balls from a pitching machine (44' and 32-34 mph) or overhand. The accurate hitter Goal: Drill allowing players to hit at all fields Description: You will need 4 cones for this drill. Cones #1 and #2 will be placed at shortstop at 15 feet apart while cones #3 and #4 will be placed between 1st and 2nd base at 15 feet apart...