The Tire Drill for Softball Hitting
The Tire Drill is a softball hitting drill for strength, but it also develops point of contact understanding and teaches players to hit through the ball. In this offensive softball hitting
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Fence Drill for Softball Fielding
Fence Drill for Softball Fielding The Fence Drill is an excellent softball fielding drill that you can use to get your players used to taking and striding out, and then releasing
Softball Defense & Double Plays from Second Base
In today's video blog post, we are breaking down the double play, and demonstrating some specific mechanics that will give your team a killer softball defense! Softball Defense & Double
Softball Practice Drills for First Basemen
It's always important to spend some time on softball practice drills designed especially for your various positions. This blog post will focus on drills primarily for your girls who play
Striding For Power – The Cat Osterman Drill
Once you've got a good handle on the fundamentals of the pitch, the L position for example, you're going to want to start working on improving speed and power. And
How to Improve Youth Catching Skills
Last year I decided to do a drill with my 7 — 9 yr olds who had a hard time catching the ball properly. Using this technique my players really
Softball Conditioning – Box Plyometric Drills
One of the biggest obstacles when it comes to strength and endurance training is equipment. Whether it’s a lack of familiarity with the equipment that makes your athletes wary of
Softball Practice Drill – Round the Bases
Here is one of my favorite practice drills. It is called "Round the bases". It's a great drill to cover many softball skills and get some conditioning in as well. Round
How to Improve Speed and Strength – Softball Baserunning Drills
Working to improve your conditioning and athleticism is absolutely vital, and can often make the difference between a win and a loss in a close game. Not only will your
Softball Hitting Drill – Half Rubber Drill
Here is a game called Half Rubber--it is an actual game that began in South Carolina. Here is the short and sweet of how it is played. We use
Youth Softball Practice Drills – Timed Throwing Drills and End of Practice FUN!
Here are a couple of drills that we like to do in practice. The first one is a timed drill that works on throwing and sprinting to the base.
Fun Softball Drills – Softball Sliding Drill
This drill is a favorite with all my players every year. This drill teaches the runners to keep their hands up to prevent broken fingers, etc. when sliding to a
End of Practice Sprint Drill – 3 Fold Baserunning Drill
Our favorite end of practice drill is to have girls sprint to 1st and run through the base, turn and jog to 2nd, then once hitting second, sprint to 3rd,
Stations Softball Practice Plans
One of my favorite practice plans is to set up different stations around the field. You will need to split the team up into three sets of kids. 3
How to Cure Softball Practice Boredom – Bandana Drill
I found my younger players getting quickly bored with some of our standard drills and they were making fundamental mistakes when just practicing throwing, catching and fielding exercises. We had
Coaching Softball – Outfielder Drill
On days when I was the only coach on site it was hard to keep all the girls working hard for the entire practice time. One way of keeping them
Softball Infield Drill – Follow the Throw Drill
One drill that I love to use because it shows improvement and keeps kids hustling is my infield ” Follow the throw” drill. This drill allows all members
Coaching Softball – Player Assessment Drill
At the beginning of the season, I like to use this drill to get to know my players. It helps me to get to know their strengths and weaknesses