Softball Training Aids

Two of my readers actually suggested these ideas for softball training aids.  I’ve included them for you below to try at some of your practices.  Very creative!

From Cory…
Here is a great softball drill that works for keeping your head down and your eyes on the ball.  Use an eye patch and cover the front eye during soft toss drill or pitching machine drills then take it off and do the same drill over.

The players really learn to see and follow the ball.

From Brian…
One of my favorite drills is something we call “field, flip, and fly”.

I picked it up somewhere but I don’t remember where.  Anyway the coach hits a ground ball to the short stop who makes a double play flip to second base.

The second baseman then instead of throwing to first to complete the double play he throws the short stop a pop up.  He varies the pop up from behind third base to short centerfield and so on.

I like it because it moves fast and works at least three different skills.

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