At Prime Time Hitting™ we believe that sports are meant to be fun. This basic, fundamental concept is too often forgotten as we pursue our athletic dreams of team and individual success.In our opinion, a clinic, class, team practice or game is only successful if the participants leave with a positive feeling and sense of well-being.Smiles and laughter are a greater measure of our success as instructors than are runs, hits or errors.
Does this mean that we don't care about athletic achievement; that we don't strive to be the best baseball teachers in the baseball world?Absolutely not!It is just a matter of perspective and emphasis.
The chances that our students will leave our lessons, clinics, and camps feeling like stars on a particular day are as high as the odds of Manny Ramirez hitting over a hundred RBI’s next season.Baseball logic dictates that we play the percentages.We strive to teach to the best of our ability with a smile and sense of humor!
Does this mean that we are more concerned with our students as individuals than as ballplayers – you betcha! It is also true that most players have more fun playing when they have acquires a level of proficiency and a feeling of self-confidence.This brings us to the teaching aspects of our philosophy. Our teaching philosophy is to keep things simple, easy to understand, and fun to practice.We believe it is important for anyone learning a skill to first view the movements as a whole, understand the relationship between those movements and success and physical safety between the lines.It is often helpful to show students pictures of the greatest players who have played the game.Emulation has always been a great teacher. Once the students understand the whole, it is time to break the movements into small techniques, and advance through a series of progressions, until the skill becomes easy and natural to perform.Multiple repetitions of the small techniques burn in proper muscle memory. Our staff is trained to use positive reinforcement as the powerful teaching tool that it is. People like to know that their efforts are appreciated.Young athletes, in particular, need encouragement every step of the way.Our goal is to create a learning environment that is fun, rewarding, and challenging.
It is our belief that as instructors of young children, we should serve as a positive role model as well as being a knowledgeable and competent teacher of technique. The principles of honesty, integrity, fair play, and good sportsmanship are the real lessons to be taught and learned.This is not to say that we do not teach our students to play hard and to compete.It is the spirit of the competition that we must constantly address and help the players understand.Poor sportsmanship is rampant.It is easy to criticize, easy to argue and to complain.Players can fall into the trap of blaming others for their shortcomings.It is up the coaches and instructors to help players through difficult times and keep them practicing.A few hundred extra swings, unlike a thrown bat or helmet, can bring a player out of a slump and into a "zone."
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