Category: Softball Hitting Drills
Batting Practice for Softball
This drill is perfect for coaching the batter the basics of hitting the ball. Softball Batting Practice Drill 1. Grip: Players must be able to grip the bat properly. The bat grip resembles that of an axe. 2. The bat must be held across the base of the fingers. 3. Light pressure on bat is [...]
2 Proven Youth Softball Hitting Drills
Girls softball players need to understand the importance of hitting drills. To score runs and give your team a chance to win, they have to be able to make solid contact and move baserunners around the diamond. And to be able to solid contact they have to have lots of practice. The old saying you [...]
The Short Game: Your Secret Weapon?
The purpose of the short game in softball is to advance runners from base to base without the necessity of getting hits. There are a number of ways to play the short game. Here we’ll take a look at three different types of bunts that players can use to play the short game. We’ll also [...]
How To Teach Slap Hitting In Youth Softball
In this article, we are going to take a look at the mechanics of slap hitting, explain how to teach it to youth softball players, and provide some useful drills to reinforce the skills in practice. The result of slap hitting is exactly what you would think from the title. The batter is going to [...]
Softball Bunting Practice
I used to use a nice, slow, old pitching machine to teach bunting. I wasn’t getting the results I wanted, so I have abandoned the machine and now take a two pronged approach. Bunting Drill I throw bunting to each player on the team, from about 15 feet, as often as I can, working to [...]
Softball Hitting Drill – The Hit Stick Warm Up Drill
One of the best drills for hitting that I have found show immediate results is using a “hit stick”. I know this is not new, but the big difference I found is that if you make this part of a batter’s preparation during games it totally changes how well they do when they are up [...]
Softball Batting Drills – Soft Toss Batting Practice
I change the angle of the tosser to simulate different pitches. These softball batting drills really makes the hitter tuck her shoulder and hips and load her hands while focusing on the ball. Soft Toss Batting Practice I have the tossers kneel about five feet away from the hitter while keeping back three feet behind [...]
Softball Hitting Drills – Going for the Points
This is the one of the softball hitting drills our kids love the most; we call it “Going for the Points”. It teaches aggressiveness and confidence at the plate and that, if it is a strike, you need to be swinging. This works equally well for softball and baseball. Going for the Points Put [...]
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