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[quote=Anonymous]I would recommend getting him a few lessons if it is in the budget. We have 2 boys that play, and DH found that his ability to help them with hitting maxed out right around that age. He could take them to the cages etc and get them making contact, but he had no idea how to help any more beyond that (for example, one of our sons was just hitting really weak grounders and getting thrown out like 90% of the time...DH didn’t know what to advise). He took them to lessons and listened to the coach’s advice/corrections and then could reinforce that if he took them to the cages himself. My sons’ coaches were always great, but didn’t have time to sit with every kid and rework their swings (or in rec ball didn’t know how to). I think they could have hit ball after ball off the tee at home but if using bad form etc would just reinforce flaws and possibly make things worse.

Pitching lessons are great, too, but DH was able to look a bunch of online tutorials etc and get our boys pitching fairly well. He’d take them to our local baseball field and catch for them, and then the boys coaches would give advice/make adjustments as needed. Both boys have a had a few pitching lessons over the years if an issue cropped up, but never on a regular basis.

DH works with them himself on any fielding practice they need- again, at the baseball fields. At the younger ages it was just a lot of playing catch, hitting grounders/fly balls etc and DH got pretty good at it after awhile.

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