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[QUOTE="manleyzoo, post: 2968801, member: 519"]
Sounds like you and your son have a special relationship. That's always good to see.

The only experience I have with youth sports is baseball in California. At the travel ball and high school levels, it doesn't matter if you hit .900 with 80 bombs and 200 rbi. In youth ball you can do that just by being big and strong. It doesn't matter how much you're pushed if you don't have enough fast twitch muscle fiber, if your hand eye isn't good, if your bat speed isn't at least average, you're not getting on the field in college. Those are things you can't teach. You can take BP in the cage off the tee to improve your mechanics, you can take a million ground balls to fix your routes, you can do the same in the outfield but at the end of the day if you don't do something better than the guy you're competing against, you ain't playing.

Guys who go in the gym on their own to shoot 500 jumpers have learned how to push themselves. Guys who hit off the tee for an hour after practice push themselves. At the upper levels, it's much more about talent than anything. In my experience it's the talented kids who learn how to push themselves. At the high school and travel ball levels, in my experience good coaches teach kids how to push themselves. It's at the college level where coaches bring talent out and develop kids. At the high school level it isn't at all about being great it's about teaching kids to develop great habits. That's not molly-coddling vs demanding. It's understanding that player development takes time.
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