This is on the road with SportsEdTV.
VB: Hello, everyone. This is Howie McCann with Victor Bergonzoli. We are back. And the past three sessions were very exciting. I hope you enjoyed them. Now we are focused between Little League and high school. So things are getting even more serious than last time, 13, 14 the amazing ages. You know, kids are getting into puberty. So Howie. Welcome back. Tell us about these.
HM: I really think this is a big transition age. This is the time your son finished Little League. Now he's getting ready for high school. And as we said in the last couple of weeks, the only time I worry about your son or daughter is making the high school team. So we've got two years to make this happen. As Victor said, kids are getting bigger, stronger, and faster.
What really happens now in baseball if your son or daughter isn't really engaged, this is where they kind of jump off the ship. So they'll stay through 12. And at 13, they’ll say I'm not going to be a baseball player. However, if your son or daughter wants to play high school, this is where it's at. So the next two years is imperative for you to really increase lessons, games and practice to make sure he's ready to go to high school to make the team.
VB: So how does it work for these kids who are getting serious? There's no more REC? There's still REC? If you still want to play is there a place for you. But when you get to high school, guys start throwing curve balls and changeups and cutters and sinkers and they enlarge the field. If the field goes further back, like you go from the pitching mound and Little League is 50 feet, well, 13, 14, it goes back to 54 and 60. So you start playing Major League Baseball size. Sixty feet, six inches as a pitcher. And if your mechanics aren't good enough to throw that distance, you'll end up hurting your arm, your shoulder like that. So that's why the mechanics that we talked about as a young person, we really have to make sure that they're really good at 13, 14.
VB: How many practices a week?
HM: A lot of the real good teams up here in Atlanta, they'll practice two or three days a week and then they'll play in the weekends. So this is kind of a commitment. Yeah. On the weekend you played Saturday and Sunday, most teams will play at one Friday night to Saturday. And then if you get in the championship cup on Sunday.
