Softball Hitting Drills

Swing and Sprint

This drill helps players learn to get out of the box quickly, emphasizing the acceleration phase of the sprint to first.

Here's a great drill to improve bat speed, hand-eye coordination and reaction time. A partner quickly soft-tosses 5 balls to the hitter in rapid fire fashion while the hitter should quickly realize that the fastest path to the ball.

“Coach Knockout” Hitting Drill

Here's a fun drill for younger kids. helps them drive the ball hard up the middle!

Knee Pinch Drill

In this drill, hitters practice taking a short, controlled stride by holding a soccer ball between their knees in order to prevent overstriding, while improving balance, rhythm and timing.

Underhand Toss Drill

Here's a fantastic drill that helps the batter swing smoothly and drive the ball.

One Hand Hitting Drill

This drill helps the player develop a short, quick, compact swing. You can run this drill with the player bent on one knee or standing up on both legs.

Wrist Snap and Swing Drill

This is a great drill to build strength and fast twitch response in forearms and wrists. Watch for good mechanics — which means elbow is in, head is still and vertical axis of rotation is maintained.

Heavy Bat Rotations

Build hitting strength in the forearms and wrists with this awesome hitting drill!

Perfect Swing Drill

This is a great hitting drill that develops rhythm, timing and visualization skills!

Top Hand/Bottom Hand Hitting Drill

Here's a great drill that promotes a short, quick swing. The hitter must focus on keeping her hand inside the ball and the barrel inside the ball on all swings.

Tee Power Swing Drill

This hitting drill improvies the hitters ability to drive the ball with power.

Whiffle Golf Ball Hitting Drill

Hitters work on keeping the head still when swinging and watching the ball all the way in in this whiffle golf ball hitting drill!.

Parachute Hitting Drill

This drill teaches batter to take a full swing and follow through without slowing down at the point of contact.

Swing Over The Tee Hitting Drill

This drill teaches the batter to swing forward and down and then along the same plane as the softball. Batters with the bad habit of dropping their back side and swinging with an uppercut should find themselves hitting the tee frequently until they fix the problem.