Line Drive Contest
This drill helps train players to swing with a line drive swing path. It also adds some fun and intensity to your practices!
Softball Hitting Drills
Clap Drill
Here's a gerat drill that teaches the hitter to keep her hands back and wait on the ball, while improving their reaction times.
Call Out Location Drill
Batter practices hitting the ball where it is pitched in this fundamental hitting drill.
Power Trigger Drill
This drill helps the batter feel their trigger position/their hands during their swing. This drill can also be run with the coach tossing the ball to the batter instead of using the tee.
One Knee Soft Toss Drill
In this hitting drill, players isolate upper body mechanics so they can work on the proper bat path and timing.
Swing and Sprint
This drill helps players learn to get out of the box quickly, emphasizing the acceleration phase of the sprint to first.
Rapid Fire Soft Toss
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.
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.