I stumbled upon this Kobe Bryant quote, and his take on youth athletic development really caught my attention: “When I’d play, I’d play to my weaknesses… In competition situations, you’re only playing to your strengths. Why? Because you want to win… I would work on the things during those summer games that I was weak at.” Kobe's point is ...

With the start of the season upon us, and the fields finally drying after endless amounts of poorly timed rained, Ive been wrestling with this thought: How do I show up for my son this season, not just as his coach, but as his dad? As I reflected on the previous season, which was my son's first season of tee ...

Then their interests ebb and flow with seasons. We’ve recently moved on from an intense 49ers obsession, where daily backyard football drills mimicking Brock Purdy and Brandon Aiyuk was a daily experience. But now, it's all about baseball. My son didnt pick up a glove or bat all winter long. However, a few days before his first practice he ...

Camps are the most underrated developmental baseball resource that you can possibly put your child in. The fact that you can get six hours of baseball in a day, six hours x five days a week, thirty hours of baseball in one week of a baseball camp - that's like an entire season of practices! How cool is that? So if you want your child not just to get better at baseball, but fall in love with it, send them to camp. When you're signing your child up for camps, don't look for development, I'm sorry, but you're not going to tell me that there are camps out there that genuinely develop skills like you would in a travel ball practice. Yes, we develop skills at Legends Baseball Camps, but our first priority is fun.

First off, I want to say that I’m a huge supporter of, and played Little League. I'm sure my kids will play as well. I had a wonderful experience and I still do a lot of work with Little League today. Little League is awesome because it's community driven. You're going to have the families out there, you're going to have burgers flipping after games, your kids are going to have an opportunity to play with their classmates and against their classmates. It just feels good and when done right it is fun!

Travel ball or tournament baseball, either way it’s still all travel ball. There's lots of pluses and minuses. I'll start with the advantages. One is that if you want to play travel ball, your child will typically be around better and stronger players. In general, they're not going to have as many of the weak links that you would have on a Little League team with a travel ball team.

Coach David Klein here from Legends Baseball. Thank you for joining me for the very first video of my new five-part video series, which I'm calling the 5P's: How to Guide Your Child to Baseball Success. Quick background about me, I've been coaching baseball for over 15 years worldwide, but primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through my Legends baseball program, I've coached over 50 players that have gone on to play professional baseball, including two Olympians and 3 Major League Ballplayers. So I've really seen it from the youth level all the way to the professional ranks.

One of the most widely discussed and touchiest topics regarding youth sports is the topic of PLAYING TIME. While I know many are towards the end of their seasons, I still think this content will be helpful. This message is for those kids who are not getting as much playing time as they would like or they aren't playing the ...

The best players in the world still “fail” 7 of 10 times. Baseball, as in life, is often unfair. A player can put a perfect swing on the ball, hit the snot out of it, but still get out! A pitcher can throw the best game of his life, but his teammates may not make the plays behind him and ...

Summer Camp is just around the corner! In the video update below, David Klein, Founder & Camp Director of Legends Baseball Camps, gives a short update on what the new C.D.C. summer camp guidelines mean for Legends camps and summer camps in general.  For day camps, the C.D.C. said that children two and up should wear masks at all times except ...