As the new year approaches, many of us will begin getting ready for the
youth baseball season. Sign ups, coaching plans, and even some youth baseball practices will start. As a gentle reminder I wish to put out a little reminder one of the most important things youth baseball coaches should teach is the ready position.
My son has used Louisville Slugger TPX Baseball Bats during his entire playing time of youth baseball. He always said he liked the feel of the Louisville Slugger TPX baseball bats of other brands of youth baseball bats. He practiced hitting off from a tee , soft toss and short toss . He quickly became one of the top batters in his age group. He was what is considered a contact hitter. Very high on base percentage with practically no strikeouts.
If you’re coaching a little league, high school, or college team, it doesn’t matter; make youth baseball practice drills should be fun for your players. Do your youth baseball practice drills, situations, etc. but then play a live game, set up some competitions, or play some stickball. There are many ways to work on the skills and have fun in the process.
Underwater kickboxing , surely there is no such thing as underwater
kickboxing. However, as much attention underwater kickboxing has received lately some may try it.
I don’t think physics will allow much to happen in underwater kickboxing but who knows?
Even it it is started..that means some you tube videos of course, I still do not see it an Olympic sport and definitely nothing I sign my children up for . Myself, I hate water, scared to death of it . I swim, a little but I for sure am not going to try underwater kickboxing.
If you must persist and want to know why there is underwater kickboxing at all you can learn more here
New Blog just in time for Christmas. Kids Christmas Crafts are a part of
family tradition. Kids Christmas crafts have been going on for generations. Don’t think doing Christmas crafts with kids can be time consuming and messy. http://kidschristmascraftsblog.blogspot.com makes it easy.
Whether it be Christmas ornament crafts, crafts for teens, Christmas crafts for the little ones, Christmas coloring pages, or even candy cane Christmas crafts, you will find the easiest no mess, fun kids Christmas crafts.
One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. There is now a Sarah Palin book quickly rising on the charts. Sarah Palin Going Rogue
In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom’s-eye view of high-stakes national politics—from patriots dedicated to “Country First” to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost.
Sarah Palin Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizen’s extraordinary journey and imparts Palin’s vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth.
On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world.
As chief executive of America’s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. And while revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also beat the political “good ol’ boys club” at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel.
Like her GOP running mate, John McCain, Palin wasn’t a packaged and over-produced candidate. She was a Main Street American woman: a working mom, wife of a blue collar union man, and mother of five children, the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest, an infant with special needs. Palin’s hometown story touched a populist nerve, rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket.
But as the campaign unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. Supporters called her “refreshing” and “honest,” a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests. Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership. But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin.
The Blind Side is about a poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect. Based on Michael Lewis’ book, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.”
The Blind Side – Evolution of a Game
Description
By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school such as, say, how to read or write. Nor has he ever touched a football. What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest vulnerability: his blind side. .
“The Blind Side” depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher’s presence in the Touhys’ lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle. In the latest chapter of his inspiring story, Oher was a First Round draft pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, selected by the Baltimore Ravens. The Touhys were there to share the moment with him.