Should Your 8 Year Old Play Travel Baseball?

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Күн бұрын

In this podcast, We tackled this pressing issue of early travel baseball.
How to spot the coaches that are just out to use your kid to win games and how to avoid them.
What no major leaguer ever said about travel baseball success, this alone will shift your perspective on how much your son should play.
Why Dads have more control, then they are led to believe they have.
Why a Dad MUST set parameters for his son’s travel baseball participation if you do this too late you could get sucked into a year-round program that leads to early burnout.
If a travel ball coach says __________ to you, you should run away fast and protect your son from this type of coach.
What’s a healthy dose of travel baseball that allows your son to develop and protects his love of the game (and arm health)
The two things experts swear determines if your son will play at the next level and knowing these changes how you let your son train
What a legendary high school coach told me players should do during the off-season (HINT: It’s not baseball related)
What to do when your son has the passion for baseball and baseball is all he wants to do.
The absolute worst thing you can do with your son’s baseball passion
The one thing that will limit your son’s ability to reach his potential
You can’t make your kid love the game, but you can make him ______ __. (Every Dad needs to hear this quote)
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@noahsoundz1048 2 жыл бұрын

My son has this crazy passion for the game it's great to see he is only 8. I never played baseball beyond little league so it's been a lot of KZfaq and researching . Love resources like this

@sangaman 9 ай бұрын

Great clip. It's not just about travel vs rec but about balance and allowing (not pushing) your kid to develop as an all around athlete, competitor, and person.

@REALNOTPOPULARTV 18 күн бұрын

Indeed

@jackmurray8931 Жыл бұрын

My son is 7 and plays “travel” baseball. The furthest we travel is 30 minutes. I’d never go back to rec

@virginiamira1856 2 жыл бұрын

Mario here… Great video I wish that I had 12 dads just like you. I no longer coach travel ball anymore due to the wrong going on from within travel ball. As an ex college player, ex coach, and ex USSSA site director. Best advice I could give any parent is try not to focus on the now. Focus on the future and ask yourself what’s more important. Winning a meaningless game, playing high school, college,or pro? The answer is neither. Focus on getting your son with a coach who knows baseball preferably a older experienced ex player, but one that has his rules and goals given to you up front and that he use’s the great game of baseball to teach life lessons. His main goal should be to create good young men and good husbands. A good coach can take any situation good or bad and turn it into a positive. I could go on and on but remember communication is key. If the coach isn’t having a thorough meeting 1st day of practice to get everyone on the same page I’d find another coach. If I could fix it I would. I’d love to coach again lol. Good Luck to all!

@gandolfgrey5385 Жыл бұрын

Great video, what I see in the small town I have moved too from a big city, is that the travel ball at all ages here is nothing more than money ball with sub par coaches that don't really know the game or how to develop kids. A couple years ago I got approached by some parents of my team that I coached and had no kids of mine on to move to travel ball. They even tried to pay me to do it and I didn't want too because it would put the rest of my kids with parents that didn't want that long of a season without a coach. So I stayed and kept those kids and developed them they made the highschool team and were phenomenal when I had them. However when they went to highschool they rode the pine because there were other kids that played travel ball and they played eventhough they were not as well rounded and it showed with their record of not winning a single game. Then there were 3 kids that just so happened to be kids of the coaches for that travel team and they all played JV and varsity even though they were not at the top of that group of kids in size or talent or ability. Varsity only won 6 games out of 25 or so. Basically what I'm saying is that unfortunately this town is all about who you know and not what you can do. So my predicament is that I have a team of young kids that are incredibly talented and are 10 and 11 now. But if we stay rec my feeling is they will be overlooked because they are not on a travel team. However if I try to make a traveling team I will lose my team. Great video.

@atl3630 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this

@chi21no 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video..my son just got accepted to a travel team..well we all decided that he won't be going..

@RyanPHill77 Жыл бұрын

Excellent ending!

@atl3630 3 жыл бұрын

The age from 8 to 9 is when a lot of kids transition from coach pitch to kid pitch. Rec teams and coaches don’t exactly get the time or resources to help players handle that transition

@baseballumpires6901 2 жыл бұрын

Depends on the league. Our evolution was Tee at 5. Coach Pitch at 6/7. Machine pitch / kid pitch at 7/8 (Kids pitched first 2 innings then machine the rest of the game). Kid pitch at 8-10. In Little League kids are seeing kid pitch starting at 7 to a limited degree. 8 year olds that get to play up see all kid pitch. In rec league (in most cases same coaches as travel ball) our LL owned fields so we had plenty of time / resources. Just depends on the league and what resources they have. Travel is heavy in our area so most coaches in LL are also travel coaches or travel parents.

@Monkeyshine911 3 ай бұрын

How much time does it take? 🤣 They're 8. I've been coaching baseball for 2 decades and travel ball is the worst thing that's happened to you sports. That's why the high school teams suck. It's all rich kids playing while the talented kids don't get a shot.

@619sandiego8 3 жыл бұрын

Good video

@sikorskybama1 4 жыл бұрын

My son has been playing rec baseball for 4 years now. He loves the game and when there's no more rec baseball to play, he wants to play more. Best thing we did was sign up for travel ball. It improved his skill level when going back to rec baseball and his confidence, in-between times he plays rec basketball and flag football. I think its great that travel ball is there for the months that rec BB isn't there. He is a 10 year old with more passion for the game I ever had, a 50 year old Dad. I grew up on skateboards and surfboards. As long as I can afford his passion I will provide for it. Will he be able to make it to the big leagues ? I don't know but travel ball fills the void of no baseball at all.

@baseballumpires6901 2 жыл бұрын

This is what travel baseball was originally intended to be. Kids that wanted to keep playing at the end of the Spring season a chance to keep playing and also play as a community team against other community teams. Travel Baseball has evolved into a chest thumping my kid is the best of the best and only the best deserve to play travel baseball. In the old days (I say that as a 50 year old myself) we played Baseball in the Spring, swimming in the Summer (or travel / all-star baseball), football in the Fall, and basketball in the winter. Now you have in rec league alone Spring and Fall baseball. Year around baseball (and other sports). No more time to expand athleticism and just have fun as kids.

@shsfootball7478 2 жыл бұрын

@@baseballumpires6901 100% agreed. Kids should try more sports and activities when they are younger. It’s hard to not get caught up in the “rat race” of keeping up with the Jones’s in early specialization. You’re only young once. You can’t try and play these sports when you get older.

@reddhole3422 2 жыл бұрын

Great video on minimizing the damage from Travel baseball. To me, playing Travel baseball during the rec season is absurd. It is killing the rec leagues and boxing out many kids who can be great one day. In my town, the travel kids must play rec ball, but the kids are going to destroy their arms. Travel ball should be made of all-stars from rec leagues and play during summer and possibly Fall. Finally, 8U Travel ball is ridiculous as those kids don't have the arm strength to pitch properly.

@corygoode8928 Жыл бұрын

Most 8U kids playing travel ball aren't pitching. They are playing coach pitch. Only certain teams play 8U Kid Pitch. I agree that Travel Ball has destroyed Rec Leagues. But there is soooo much money in Travel baseball now that there is almost no going back.

@SportTraining-kp2hl 7 ай бұрын

Great work, you gained a new follower.

@DACALLUP 9 ай бұрын

My son is 8 and he's been on a rec team for the past year over the summer he really wanted to train since he took a break from rec now it's the fall and he wants to train more was thinking should i put him in travel ball or look for a rec league that is more competitive based

@Monkeyshine911 3 ай бұрын

He's 8! Chill out. When he's 10 and you see 8 year old play, you'll think "wow. Those 8 year olds are just little tiny kids. I can't believe I took that so seriously." You'll see

@chuckm1961 Жыл бұрын

Are baseball moms supposed to find somewhere else to go?

@Monkeyshine911 3 ай бұрын

@buffalobaseballkid Жыл бұрын

@jeffmichel4312 3 ай бұрын

All these vids pods and articles about travel ball is ruining baseball… I think it’s a conspiracy to talk people out of playing more baseball. The only thing stopping us from playing more baseball is turkey hunting deer hunting and fishing. I guess football and wrestling too. We need 48 hours per day and 8 days per week.