Protecting the Investment of Private Baseball Lessons

We’ve talked about how private baseball lessons are an investment. We’ve talked about ways to maximize your budget in order to make private or semi-private lessons part of the overall training plan. Now let’s talk about how you can help protect that investment.

Depending on your trainer and/or your facility’s rules, you may not be allowed on the training floor during the lesson itself, (as a facility owner myself, I did not allow parents on the floor mostly for safety reasons), but a quality instructor will either seek you out for a minute after each session to explain what was covered and what needs to be worked on during the week, or they’ll email you at the end of the day with that information.

The good ones will do this because training your child is more than just getting extra money to put in their pockets. They are invested in your player’s success just as much as you are. Therefore, they want to see progress each week. They don’t want to have to spend the first 15 minutes of each lesson rehashing the week before, and that will happen if the player doesn’t do their “homework” in between sessions. That’s a recipe for wasting your money.

After each lesson, you should know what the trainer wants your child to work on. Maybe it’s a drill that needs to be done in front of a mirror, or maybe it’s specific tee work. Make sure you also film every at bat during the week (if you’re still in season) so you can show the instructor in-game video that can be used to prep for the next lesson.

One of the best instructors I’ve had the privilege of working with, Coach Joe Maus of Grit Baseball in the Rockland County, NY area, walks the child back out to the parent after each lesson and has the child tell the parent themselves what they worked on. I love this because it shows that the player is attentive to what’s being taught and can easily explain it to someone else. That’s great coaching.