Shaws Little League

Got to love parents having a go at pitching to their children. The coaches give parents instructions on how to pitch and the areas to aim for. We don’t tell them that we have instructed the children to smash the ball as hard as possible back at their parents. Amazing to see the ball flying off the bat and the parents ducking for cover!
The children really enjoy your participating in the class and we are sure you do too - beats doing maths homework with them for sure. It also means that the children get more turns at bat and have more fun; more opportunities for crossing the midline and the left-right brain coordination. Am sure the children are looking forward to your cricket bowling soon.

What do our coaches do? We are just normal. We do things normally - maximise fun, maximise participation, understand your child, let them feed off our own knowledge, energy and effort.

When your child does something amazing, we will just shrug our shoulders and say that’s what we are trying to achieve and then we give them easy and simple instructions to improve.

Our normal is about trying to make your children awesome.

‘How do I apply lessons from the Crusaders to a non-professional environment?’

Here's Robbie Deans’ surprising answer…

“We have a lot of organisations, coaches, and apprentice players who come in and experience our environment.

“The most common feedback that we get from them is they can't believe how simple our approach is. And it's all based around enjoyment.

“One of the big misunderstandings with professionalism is that it's that much more complicated out of necessity.

“It's not.

“What an under-five coach does is no different from what the Crusaders coach does.

“You're dealing with people who love the game. They turned up because they want to enjoy it. Anyone that straps boots on doesn't want to fail, they want to succeed. You’re tasked with helping them to not only succeed but also enjoy the experience.

“The fact that you're paid for it or not is totally irrelevant. The fact that it's under-fives as opposed to Super Rugby is totally irrelevant. It's exactly the same thing.

“The one line that I keep throwing back at coaches is ‘let the kids play’. Doesn't matter what age they are, they're kids; they're either overgrown kids or they're yet-to-grow kids.

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And MJ did the coolest half-time show ever.

It’s great fun doing demonstrations - the little guy waiting at the blue hoop seems quite excited to see his teammate get folded