Tag: "good coaching tips for softball"
Good Coaching Tips for Softball – Ping Pong Paddles, Basketballs and Pinto Beans
If you’re coaching softball you are always looking for tips to make your practices fun and fresh. These are some easy and fun drills to try using balls other than a softball! Ping Pong Paddles My favorite fielding and throwing drill is to use ping pong paddles (they are cheap) instead of gloves to field [...]
How to Teach or Correct Batting Stance
I noticed after looking at pictures and videos of my players last season that alot of them had all kinds of different batting stances. Some looked good and some just were not right. So, I decided I would fix it from the first day of practice. The problem was how to fix it fast and [...]
Coaching Softball – Softball Warm-Up Drill
My favorite softball warm-up drill at the start of practice is to have half the players at the pitchers mound (for 8U girls) or at the short stop position (for 10U girls) and the other half at first base. Softball Warm-Up Drill I stand at home plate. The pitchers mound/shortstop girls field the ball from [...]
Softball Throwing Drills – Target Drill
I spend a lot of time working on accurate throws and aiming at a target with my 9th grade team. I call this the Target Drill. Target Drill We divide the girls up into equal teams of 4 or 5. Have one girl sit on a bucket on the 3rd baseline and the rest of [...]
Good Coaching Tips for Softball – Hula Hoops, Eggs, & Glove Side
Try these good coaching tips for softball. These are some of my favorite that I use with my rookie player for sure. It never hurts the “seasoned” ones to try these as well to polish their skills. Hula Hoop Toss For Rookie Players (new to the game) a good technique in teaching how to aim [...]
Coaching Softball – Parent Player Team Rules
For the players and team to achieve, the largest factor in softball (or any youth sport) is to have the support of the parents and buy-in of the players. The single factor that negates this is the perceived notion that the coach is not fair. I was constantly repeating team rules, and upset parents. In [...]
Youth Softball – Basic Skills & Visualization Drill
For youth softball coaching I like to reinforce basic skills as well as use a visualization drill for the mental aspect of the game. The practice drill allows all the players to get in some great training and skill building. The visualization technique teaches them to think about strategy. Basic Skills Drill My favorite practice [...]
Coaching Youth Softball – Team Captains & Communication
As I’m coaching youth softball, to keep the players’ attention and make practice important to my players (7yrs –9yrs old), I select team captains and give them a job that would be important to them. Team Captains I give them criteria for being captain, for example: They need to show that they are paying attention [...]
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