In this tape, any coach can learn to confidently teach these skills!
Watch as Baylor University assistant coach Steve Johnigan starts you at home plate and works his way around all the bases, starting with proper steps & proper routes out of the batter's box, how to hit the first base bag and take time-saving turns heading to the next base(s).

Leads are properly demonstrated for both leagues that allow and do NOT allow leading off and stealing.

SLIDING
Here you will learn how to overcome the biggest reasons that kids do not slide well.lack of technique, lack of practice and fear of getting hurt!

Watch as a team of youth players have a blast while learning the basic figure-4 slide, the hookslide/slide by's for avoiding tag plays (smartly modified for youth players) and the headfirst slide.complete with coaching tips to reduce, eliminate or hopefully avoid player injury.

The skills are taught in progression and from the beginning so any age can learn.
The drills contain so much fun that your players should learn this important skill very quickly!

DRILLS
This tape is loaded with drills and does not require any special tools or facilities.just what you learn from this fine coach and a group of ballplayers who want to have fun!

NOTE
The team of ballplayers who demonstrate these drills had never been exposed to these baserunning & sliding principles and were not previously taught by the Baylor coaches before the making of this DVD.

ABOUT THE COACH
Steve Johnigan has spent 11 years on the coaching staff of Baylor University, where he coordinates the team's offense and baserunning. Serving as the Baylor third base coach, he directed the Bears' offense to school records for runs scored and stolen bases in 1999.

Johnigan also serves as the director of the Baylor Bear baseball camps and coordinates the yearly Baylor Coaching Clinic for high school coaches in Texas.

A graduate of Texas A&M, Johnigan was a two-year starter for the Aggies at catcher and was named the team's captain in his senior season. He then played two years with the Cleveland Indians organization. After his playing days were over, Johnigan spent four years as an assistant coach at Mississippi State, where he received a master's degree in education in 1991.