Softball Tips

This Blog provides softball tips for those playing and coaching softball on softball hitting, softball pitching, softball training, softball fielding, and more

2009/4/14

Free Softball Tips - Fundamentals of Pitching

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@ 08:26 AM (7 months, 14 days ago)
The most important thing for softball pitching is for pitchers to have a good, sound base in the fundamentals. You want a nice, balanced delivery. This should go from the start through the delivery through the follow-through.

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2009/3/25

Softball Coaching - Establishing Objectives

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@ 02:04 PM (8 months, 4 days ago)
Your objectives, when softball coaching, come after you establish your philosophy. There will be objectives for you, your staff, the athletes, and the team. These objectives will come from what you think is important in terms of the game and will be in your mind at every softball hour: during practice, pre-game, game, and the off-season. The athletes will have most of the objectives, because they play the game. Many of these objectives are set to help the athlete reach their peak performance. Team objectives will help you decide if you have really won or lost the game past the scoreboard. If the team gets the majority of its missions done, you should feel like you won even when you really lost the game. It should be the coach's goal to help the players reach theirs.

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2009/3/16

Free Softball Tips - Giving Signals

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@ 05:00 PM (8 months, 12 days ago)
When the softball catcher is giving signals, usually to the pitcher, shortstop, or second baseman, the catcher takes a comfortable stance with her trunk up and head facing the pitcher. The right-handed catcher should rest her left forearm on her left thigh with the wrist held up at the top of the knee. Her glove will gently rest along the knee with the pocket facing the other knee so it hides the signals from the opposing coach at third base. It's a good idea for the catcher to signal the second baseman for a pickoff at second or at first, as well as signal the first baseman for the pickoff at first and the shortstop for a pickoff at third.

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2009/3/12

Softball Fielding Tips - Fake Throws

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@ 03:13 PM (8 months, 17 days ago)
The softball infield should fake a throw whenever she has no chance of a play on the batter base runner and there are other runners on the bases. This is a much better option than just holding on the softball and not taking advantage of a base runner that is overaggressive rounding another base. The infielder should use a full overhand motion and grip the ball tightly.

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2009/3/5

Softball Batting Tips - Two-Strike Adjustment

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@ 08:14 AM (8 months, 24 days ago)
The goal for a player when softball hitting and facing two strikes is to just make contact with the ball. One of the better two-strike adjustments to make and that a player can practice in the batting cage is to move closer to the plate to protect the outside corner and be able to reach outside pitches to drive to the opposite field.

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2009/2/19

Softball Coaching Tips - Contact Past Coaches

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@ 03:34 PM (9 months, 7 days ago)
In trying to evaluate your players' skills when coaching youth softball, you can put in a quick phone call to the coaches your players played for last season in order to gain some insight on their strengths and weaknesses.

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2009/1/13

Softball Coaching Tips - Criticism and Praise Go Hand in Hand

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@ 06:45 PM (10 months, 14 days ago)
When softball coaching, follow every negative comment with a positive one shortly down the road. Players will respect you if you criticize them when need be, but also praise them at every opportunity.

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