O.U.T.S. Teaching Two AND Three Umpire System

[Bob Bainter]

I've got great news...after discussing it with our staff, and because of massive feedback on students wanting to learn three-umpire mechanics, we've changed our plans and will offer BOTH at our school in February-March.

Time frame stays the same, but consider it like choosing an elective in college: We will teach the group that wants three-umpire experience what they want, and the two-umpire group what they want. Both groups will, of course, come together for classroom, pitching machine work, etc, but when it comes to mechanics with two and three umpires, we will separate and do things a little differently!

All the info is on www.outschool.biz, take a look and tell me what you think!

Bob Bainter

bob@outschool.biz

[BT_Blue]

What do you do with guys that are like myself who usually work two man but want to learn three man as well in order to move up?

[LMSANS]

I don't find 3-man mechanics that difficult to grasp. Why couldn't it just be a 2-hour block for everybody?

[Bob Bainter]

What do you do with guys that are like myself who usually work two man but want to learn three man as well in order to move up?

What we would do is probably want to work on the three-man as your focus. We can always take somebody who is interested in three but needs work in two and make moves...I'm picturing this, for lack of a better description, as a "fluid" curriculum. We can make decisions based on the individual. But if someone is "failing" at 3 it's not going to "remove" him from that group.

If you work a lot of 2 and want to learn 3, sign up for the 3 and if you change your mind, we won't complain!

Bob

Oh, and P.S., as far as a block...hey, the feedback is helping us craft our curriculum...and I appreciate the ideas...who knows what we'll do next!

Bob

[BrianC14]

Our association teaches 3-man just prior to the District playoffs. It's mandatory attendance for anyone who wants to work post season games.

In addition, we have an annual summer clinic here (4 days) where 3-man is taught, and games are all 3-man crews.

http://www.milehighumpclinic.com/

[Dragon29]

Our association teaches 3-man just prior to the District playoffs. It's mandatory attendance for anyone who wants to work post season games.

In addition, we have an annual summer clinic here (4 days) where 3-man is taught, and games are all 3-man crews.

http://www.milehighumpclinic.com/

Our association is quite similar - Pre-season clinic focuses on 2-man because they know that's what most of us will be doing most of the time; then the pre-post-season clinic (if I can double hyphenate) focuses on 3-man because post-season is all 3-man (or more)

Seems to work pretty well