How-to-use
How-to-use Teaching young children the mechanics of how to hit a baseball or softball can be difficult due to the required body positioning and coordination. Proper foot placement within a batter’s box is necessary for learning how to hit a baseball. Most children learning to swing a bat requires a coach to continually position and reposition their feet near a tee or home plate. Once a child swings the bat, the child often forgets exactly where their feet are supposed to be positioned while hitting. The coach then must attend to the child and reposition their feet.
little PEEBS Tee Ball Training Mat shows positioning a batter in order to hit balls to different directions in relation to a baseball field, such as left field, center field, and right field. Also, it is used to help position and show foot placement of a catcher, coach or umpire.
Instructions:
- Unroll out of packaging lay flat with print upwards.
2. Place Tee Ball Tee over Home plate figure.
3. Place feet on the same colored shoe prints. See NOTE in step 4.
4. This will help teach batter to position their feet towards home plate. NOTE: Feet positions on color footprints can be adjusted for each batter and don’t have to have their feet exactly on colored footprints of the same color and the batter can get as close or as far back as it fits the batter in relation to the tee stand.
5. Shoe prints in back of batter’s box will help teach batter to be ahead of the ball and place to left field if a right handed batter, right field if a left handed batter.
6. Shoe prints in the center of the batters box will help teach the batter to hit up the middle.
7. Shoe Prints in the front of the batter’s box will help teach batters to be behind the ball and place the ball to right field if right-handed batter, left field if batter is left-handed
8. When finished with mat, sweep off, flip over with print down and roll up for storage, helps mat to lay flat when ready to use.
9. CLEANING: Brush or wipe off with water and dish soap. Spray with hose, add soap, use a push broom to scrub, spray off with hose, let dry in the sun. Roll up when dry.
Do’s and Don’ts
DO’S:
- ADULT SUPERVISION IS ALWAYS RECOMMENDED
- AGES 3 & UP
- HAVE FUN LEARN ALL YOU CAN SWING AWAY!!!
DO NOTS:
- NO METAL CLEATS
- NOT A SLIDING DEVICE
- MAY BE SLIPPERY WHEN WET
CAUTION:
- MAY BE HOT TO THE TOUCH IF EXPOSED IN THE SUN FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME
- LAY ON FLAT SURFACE WITH NO SHARP OBJECTS
RECOMMENDED:
- NOT TO BE USED FOR GAME TIME USE. BUT CAN BE WITH ADULT SUPERVISION
- ONLY FOR PRACTICE TRAINING UNLESS USE FOR GAME PURPOSES WITH ADULT SUPERVISION
little PEEBS is not responsible in the misuse of the little PEEBS Tee Ball training Mat.