This year, Jacob expressed interest in playing tball. The program that the city runs for his age is a Fundamentals program that requires parent participation. I don't really like paying for programs in which we have to play WITH the kids (because really, we can play catch in the backyard for free!) but he really wanted to try it out.
The idea of the program was to introduce the kids to the basics of tball; throwing, catching, hitting, base running; so that next year when they can actually PLAY tball, they will have developed (hopefully) some of the skills.
Each week the session was coached/taught by baseball teams from our area. The last week was coached by the
Kitchener Panthers who seemed to be having as much fun as the kids were.
Scott and Jacob headed out on Saturday mornings together to the program and Jacob absolutely loved it! He did really well too. It was a short program, so it's done already but I think he'll be excited to try actual tball next year!
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| In his uniform, ready to go! |
First up, throwing and catching!
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| All the kids lined up together. |
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| Heading to the hitting station with daddy. |
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| Scott telling him where to stand. |
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| Ready, |
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| Set, |
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| Go! |
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| Future tballer? |
The next station was catching/fielding grounders and base sliding!
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| They used their hats to catch first and then moved to their gloves. |
He was cute, but Jacob never really caught on to sliding. He would run to the base, sit down on it and put his hands in the air.
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| Playing a mini game, that's him in the middle. |
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| With one of the Panthers. |
At the end of the session, all the kids got a trophy for their participation in the program.
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| High fiving all the Panthers. |
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| An attempt at a group photo. |
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| The happy ball player! |
