Finally! An instructional video on how to run a youth baseball practice (8-15 year old players).

Coach Steve Smith discusses the basic principles for a successful baseball practice. These principles include how much time to spend on each area, using groups and stations to keep things moving, focusing on the major issues, varying routines to fit your needs, and keeping practices creative. Smith and the Midway All-Star team demonstrate a day of practice. Coach Mitch Thompson explains the factors in determining the correct position for each player, how to put together a batting order, and how to put together a good system of signs for your style of coaching. This is a great instructional baseball DVD for those who are coaching youth baseball.

2000. 54 minutes.

Learn and develop the skills you need to play the most demanding position in baseball.

Ryan Shotzberger takes you through the three "Catching Musts:"

For each "Catching Must," Shotzberger explains the common flaws associated with it and demonstrates drills to correct the problems. He demonstrates 15 targeted drills in all including a blocking series, the six shooter series and catching drills with a pitching machine.

Solidify your defense behind the plate and make better use of your practice time.

36 minutes. 2010.

Get more range from your infielders and make more plays.

Todd Whitting delivers a step-by-step overview of the fielding mechanics needed for sound infield play. See how your athletes can get to more balls in the infield using Whitting's stance techniques, ball reading tips, glove and body positioning and throwing technique.

Develop vital skills for attacking five key ground balls:

• Footwork Ball - Get a great first step on the ball hit right at you.
• Glove Side Angle - Tutor your fielders to stay behind the ball.
• Glove Side Retreat - Teach your players to field the ball on the best hop.
• Back Hand Side - Learn four ways to field any ball hit to your throwing side.
• Slow Roller - Get the essentials for making this do-or-die play.

Learn to set up and run 14 key drills for training your athletes to field slow rollers, short hops, in-between hops, recover after a "kicked" ball, dive for a ball and more.

This baseball DVD is filled with the essential skills and drills you need to improve your infield and solidify your defense.

76 minutes. 2010

Learn how to develop a hitting plan for swing mechanics and gain over 30 drills to improve your at bats.

Todd Whitting breaks down the swing into five main components, provides a thorough walk through of each component and identifies key principles that must be present during each part.

He then shows you how to customize your hitting plan to improve your players' individual weaknesses.

Whitting demonstrates over 30 drills pulled directly from the TCU hitting program. Each drill includes in-depth instruction for proper execution, key points, how it corrects your swing, and more! These drills will improve critical areas such as hip rotation, swing path, rhythm, and head movement.

Finally, Whitting incorporates all of TCU's hitting philosophies and techniques into a live batting practice.

Give your hitters more confidence at the plate and create a hitting program that will put more runs on the board.

63 minutes. 2010.

Through good mechanics your pitchers will produce more strikes.

Randy Mazey, with more than 15 years of coaching experience at the Division I level, gives a head-to-toe demonstration on how to establish proper mechanics, and develop the ability to repeat that delivery through every pitch. Coach Mazey addresses three fundamentals of pitching mechanics: balance, direction and finish, and relates the fundamentals to each part of the body.

Learn how the head, shoulders, arms, hands, hips and legs work together at each stage of a pitch. See live pitching mechanics in action as Mazey provides a frame-by-frame video analysis of his athletes exemplifying both good and bad mechanics.

Mazey identifies the five most common mechanical problems seen at all levels of competition, and explains how they affect a pitch. He runs his TCU athletes through five drills that work specifically on correcting the common problems of head tilting, shoulder tilting, throwing across the body, over rotating and falling off the finish.

If you have good balance, direction and finish, the ball will go where you want it to go.

70 minutes. 2010.