Category: Softball Tips
Good Coaching Tips for Softball – Conditioning Drills & Practice Planning
If you’re looking for good coaching tips for softball try these. The first tips are two conditioning drills we often start our practice with. Next is a coaching tip I feel is invaluable in creating your practice plans and involving your players. Conditioning Drill 1. Girls form a wide circle 2. Each girl places a [...]
Good Coaching Tips for Softball – Batting Tip & Patience
Spring and softball practice go together. Here are some good coaching tips for softball to get your season off to a good start. Batting Tip To get batters to focus on the ball as it leaves the pitchers hand, I have a few baseballs marked with different color dots, and pitch to them. They are [...]
Softball Batting Tips – Bat Speed & Power
Here are my softball batting tips. They are designed to build hellacious bat speed and power! Give them a try, you’ll be amazed. Bat Speed & Power Using whiffle balls (or real softballs if you have a L-screen) get about 40 feet away from the hitter and toss the balls in the strike zone. Here [...]
Softball Hitting Drill – King of the Mountain
For a fun softball hitting drill, we play a gamed we termed “king of the mountain” for 10U. It teaches bunting and the girls love to play it. King of the Mountain Each girl gets cage time and bunts as many as she can in a row. The catch is they cannot bunt a ball [...]
Effective Softball Practice – Baserunning Game Drill
I find these two drills offer an effective softball practice that your players will have fun with as well. Adding the element of competition always enhances your players investment in the practice. Baserunning Game Drill I do this game where half the team is on 1st and half on 3rd. There is a tee at [...]
Softball Tips and Drills – Proper Footwork
One of my favorite softball tips and drills has to do with footwork–so important for all aspects of softball. This drill is intended to teach kids proper footwork which in turn contributes to better throwing motion & proper receiving position. Footwork Drill Have two players face one another at a easily manageable throwing distance. Have [...]
Coaching Softball – Team Building
While coaching softball this summer, I noticed the recreation teams weren’t gelling. This group of kids, most of which were on different teams during regular season, were all in it for themselves and were not considering their teammates at all.
Softball Coaching Tips – Fun Practices and Good Sportsmanship
Here are a couple of my favorite softball coaching tips. They emphasize ways to motivate, keep practices fun and how to be good sports no matter what the game outcome.
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