When you drop your child at school, you expect him to learn the things needed to progress to the next level. In school, they call each level a grade. To move on to third grade, you need to show competency of second grade requirements. These requirements are tested and developed with strategies and lesson plans. Parents trust teachers know how to develop those second grade skills. So why are sports different? When a parent drops a kid off at youth baseball practice, how do they know the coach is capable? Teachers go to school for education and continue to learn their craft. Coaches sign a paper and are in charge of such development with possibly no education. It is the wild wild west. Your son or daughter may know as much about the sport at the end of the year as they did to begin. Now, one year older, they move up to more difficult levels. Are they ready?
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Improving the way your team prepares
Youth sports continue to grow at an incredible rate year after year. Instead of recommending that kids play multiple sports, we only seem to add more games to the schedule and make it mandatory to stick to one in order to stay in the rat race. More games during the year means more practices, more at bats, more innings pitched. On top of that, it’s getting ridiculously competitive at the youngest levels.
Peak Sports Performance 