Purpose
A game-like drill that teaches your players to advance runners and put pressure on the defense. Fielders get opportunities for game situation rep.
Set Up
Put a full defensive lineup into
Hitting Stations allow you to maximize the number of players you can have working on their hitting at the same time. Plus, by working at hitting stations, you can focus
Are you spending enough time working on the mental aspects of hitting with your softball team? In this post, we'll cover some mental hitting basics, and five simple mental hitting
Mirror drills are very valuable in allowing a player to review their hitting mechanics. Mirror drills allow all hitters to jump in and work on anything that they want. The
Fielding Bunts — Techniques for Success
Bunting is a skill that is used a lot in softball to get on base and move runners. So it's important that your athletes know
In today's article, we will be going over an introduction to slap hitting, including the feet work, arm position, ball placement, bunting, hard slap and soft slap.
Slap Hitting Mechanics —
The purpose of the short game in softball is to advance runners from base to base without the necessity of getting hits.
There are a number of ways to play the
I use this softball hitting drill for all levels from beginners thru high school.It is a fun way to learn bunting as well as quick hands for the infielders.
Bunt Game,
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
Try these softball free drills and practice games. They are great for defense and great for conditioning. We call it 21.
21 Game
Set up the defense excluding the pitcher and set
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
We rotate the whole team through these pregame [tag]softball hitting drills[/tag], 3 at a time to get hitters ready.
Set up the 3 home plate throw downs (in foul territory facing
This is one of my favorite softball practice drills that I find to be a great end of practice activity. It involves working most base running situations and conditioning.
This is one of our favorite softball hitting drills. It is a bunting drill that we use to promote both offense and defense when trying to get a base runner from 1st base to 3rd base.
This idea for fastpitch softball indoor drills comes courtesy of Julie, one of my subscribers. She sent this coaching tip and I've included it here for you. Give it a try for fastpitch or slow pitch!