Blast Ball!!!

There's no crying in baseball, however blast ball has tons of tears!!!

All ready to head out to practice

Max had his first blast ball practice today and well it was one for the memory book. Max was so excited all day and we all had big hopes for his first practice. So we all loaded in the car and headed up to the practice field. Of course being the crazy mom that I am we arrived 45 minutes early. Since we were so early Tim and Max played catch for a little bit and then Max played at the play ground.

Once everyone started to arrive we headed over to the practice area and Max was still super excited. All the kids sat down and listened to the coach explain some of the things they were going to do.

Things were still looking good we were so thinking wow this is going to be a great experience. The coach had the kids start the practice off by taking turns running to the one and only base, jump on the base because it plays music and then running back. Well Max was still so excited he forgot to wait for the kid in front of him to run back before he started running to the base. The coach, who is a man Max just met, loudly said no no wait Max. Max being the over sensitive not wanting to get into trouble kid that he is stopped running and broke out in tears. The coach wasn't getting on to him, but man that just broke Max's heart. From this point on we spent the next hour crying, laughing, crying, laughing over and over.

The team was split up into do groups. Max was in coach Sean's group and coach Justin had the other group. The coach had the kids practice catching the ball. Max did ok at this part not to many tears.



Then they worked on catching grounders. Max missed the first one thrown his way and when the coach was cheering Max on as he was running to get the ball Max started to cry. Again Max knew he messed up and he was afraid he was getting into trouble. My poor baby I guess we need to be praising him more at home :)

Once the catching drills were over they moved on to learning how to use the bat. The coach was showing the kids how to swing and Max was not enjoying this part. Max didn't seem to care for the coach putting his arms around him helping him to swing.

My kid isn't shy, but he does like his personal space :) So this was also a time of many tears. Once we were done with the form training it was time to practice swinging and hitting. Since we didn't have the tee the coach wanted the kids to hit the ball out of his hand. Max was not to excited about this part and I really couldn't blame him. We have trained our child not to swing the bat at people. So when the coach told him to hit the ball out his hand Max was really hesitant. He wouldn't even hold the bat up to swing, so of course he cried.

Finally the coach had all the kids come together and practice hitting the ball off the tee and running to the base. The kids that weren't hitting practiced fielding. Max would run to get the ball or try at least. He seemed to be enjoying that part.

One of the moms commented on how cute he was when he runs. She said it looks like he is dancing. Yes my kid prances!!!!

Aren't my boys the cutest!!!

Once it was Max's turn to hit the ball he seemed super excited. He got up there, swung the bat and hit the ball.

We all cheered and told him to run to the base, but Max wanted to keep working on his fielding skills, so he decided to field the ball he just hit. The coach got the ball from him and told him to run to the base. Max started running to the base and then he stopped about a foot in front of the base and started to cry. He didn't want to jump on the base for whatever reason. Tim grabbed Max and made him jump on the base to get him to try.

At this point practice is coming to an end. Max was ready to leave.
So we are hoping that the next practice goes better. Timmy is going to get a tee and a bat so that they can practice this week before the next practice.