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Thank you for the thoughts gentlemen and possibly ladies. I appreciate you taking the time.

This is a bit tangential, so I apologize if it is too far afield. I am finishing up my first season of coaching little league baseball, nine-year-olds. It's been several years since I studied Karate and Cha-yon ryu but it definitely made an impact on my life. I've been looking for ways to improve how we (me and the other coaches) teach the kids and one thing I've realized is that we tend to assume that someone has taught them the basics at some point in the past. But when I work on basic concepts with them, I often find that they never learned them. Much of baseball is composed of stylized motions. One adapts them to the situation, but there's a way to field a grounder, a way to catch a pop fly, a way to throw a pitch, a way to throw to another player, a proper stance for batting, a shifting of weight and balance during a swing, etc. It occurs to me that creating a kata of these motions and integrating them into the warm-up at the beginning of practice might be a way to help introduce the kids to the basic motions they've missed along the way, and to give them a little practice in the proper form of the basics before they run out to the field to exercise them. Then it occurred to me that surely someone has invented a baseball kata at some point. So, anyone ever heard of such a thing? Thank you for any helpful or humorous replies. Jeff Walther