Tracking

[Tim C]

One great way to learn to track is to have a team of three:

Have a catcher, an umpire and a pitcher.

The pitcher is only about three feet in front of the catcher on one knee.

The pitcher just soft tosses the ball to the catcher and he watches your eyes until you can follow the ball in all six basic locations.

Then you rotate.

You need to do this over-and-over.

Tracking is a "learned" skill. Most umpires, unlike you, don't have their eyes drift . . . most umpires stare THROUGH the ball and are focused at some point out front of the plate.

Just one way to work on this skill.