Softball Tips

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

2009/3/25

Softball Coaching - Establishing Objectives

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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2009/2/19

Softball Coaching Tips - Contact Past Coaches

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

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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