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Pitching Drill: The Drop Ball from the Mound

In today's video blog post, we are continuing to work on the Drop Ball Pitch, and throwing full out from the mound. In this pitching drill, your pitchers will work

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Tackling Signs & Signals for Enhanced Communication

Today, we're going to talk about a very important part of a softball practice: going over signs and signals. Signs and signals deal with communication, which is important in any endeavor.

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Softball Defensive Drills – How to Make the Tag

Position at 3rd base is extremely valuable in baseball - that's why your going to want to have one of your best infielders on that base. And one of the things

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Softball Conditioning – More Plyometric Secrets!

If you don't have anything you could use as a box, our look at baserunning drills using a box might have you wanting more. Or even if you do have the

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Softball Pitching Drills – Getting the Grip Right

Before teaching your players a huge variety of softball pitches, you’ll want to start at the fundamentals. The first thing I always go over with my new pitchers, and even my

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Softball Batting Drill – Plug in the Socket Drill

To get my players away, 8UAA, from thinking about squishing the bug to hip rotation I used the following idea that I picked up from another coach. Plug in the Socket

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.  

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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

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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

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Good Coaching Tips for Softball – Conditioning Drills & Practice Planning

If you're looking for good coaching tips for softball try these.     The first tips are two conditioning drills we often start our practice with. Next is a coaching

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Softball Conditioning Exercises – Warm Up Practice Drill

With my team, I like to start every practice off with base running.   It gets them warmed up, and reinforces the habits of good base running. You can't find

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Free Softball Coaching Drills – Teamwork and Competition

These free softball coaching drills work well to instill teamwork and provide friendly competition. Teamwork Drill Divide the entire team into two teams. One team hits the infield, the other team lines up

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Softball Coaching Tips – Confidence Builder and Soft Toss Swing

Try these softball coaching tips to motivate and build confidence in your players.   For some kids it is difficult to hit to the opposite field.   The first tip

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