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Softball Hitting Drills- Concentration D...

softballdrills — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:45:01 +0100

Purpose: To develop a batter's concentration during the pitcher's release. This drill teaches players to keep their eye on the ball. Use this is a one of your <a href="http://www.softballperformance.com/softball-drills/category/hitting/">Softball Hitting Drills</a>.

Procedure: Prepare 6 Softballs, each with a small mark the size of a quarter on two or more sides of the ball; two of the balls should be marked with one color, and the other four with a different color; the colors should be bright and easy to see. Divide the team into group and use assistant coaches to set up two or three stations at one time. Start the drill with the first batter standing in the batter's box. The pitcher takes one of the six softballs, hiding the colored dot from the batter, and pitches the ball. Starting in a proper stance, the batter prepares as usual, he strides but does not swing and instead calls out the color on the baseball after it is in the catchers glove. The batter must follow the flight of the ball and watch it go into the catcher's glove. This drill can be set up as a competition to see which batter can identify the most colors correctly

*Coaches should also throw in a ball without any color to see how players react. Some will guess a color, others will tell the coach they followed the ball but didn't see any color.

Playing Softball Drills Right Not Just t...

softballdrills — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:29:49 +0100

In every team, there is someone who is considered to be the favorite player of many people. Since more and more people are getting satisfied in watching softball games, people tend to have their own favorites. If you happen to become the favorite of many people, you can be considered as star player.

Every team has a main goal that they need to fulfill. You can make you way into your success in the soonest possible time if your team exercises team work and camaraderie. Even if you are the most famous player in your team, you should not try to control the game. It is true that you really got a long way to run in your softball career and you have proven your worth in playing great games but you should give your teammates a chance to also prove themselves. You still need your teammates in playing the game. Every player has an important role in your team that you have to respect no matter how good you are in your position.

Engaging yourself in continuous softball drills will help you to become a successful softball player. You surely want to stay in your position for a long period of time and so you have to take your every training seriously. You also need to show right attitude to your coach and co-players. Your goal should be to play the game right so that you can contribute to the success of your team and not because you want to be recognized as the best player of your team. The latter goal is too selfish and oftentimes, this will not help the team to win in the game.

If you try to make good in various softball drills because you think that this is the best to make success in favor for your team, you can expect that your coach and other teammates will become very fond of you. You should share your knowledge to your teammates so that everybody will have a chance to improve for the good.

Developing your self-confidence is very important in the sport. Training is the perfect time for you to develop this trait and show your colleagues that you have the skills to become one of the best softball players in the near future. You should learn to carry yourself well even if you are still on the training but not to the point that you will feel over-confident.

Sometimes, over confidence can show your teammates that you are boastful since you know a lot about softball. Though you have a lot of knowledge in the field of softball, you should still need to listen to your coach. You should keep in your heart and in your mind all the softball drills that your coach has taught you.

If you become a responsible and good player, you can make sure that you can build good relationship with your teammates. Good relationship means cooperation among all of you. And if you have the cooperation, you can accomplish your goal without any difficulty.

Fastpitch Softball Drills - Pitcher Fiel...

softballdrills — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:52:50 +0100

Purpose: This fastpitch softball drill familiarize the pitcher with coming off the pitcher's mound after the windup to field a hunted or hit softball in front of the home-plate area

Procedure: Equipment required are A ball, a bat, gloves. Set up the drill with a pitcher, catcher, infielders, and bat¬ter .The pitcher throws the ball, and the batter bunts it toward third base. The pitcher fields the ball in what is scmetimes called "no man's land." Mo man's land is the area between the pitcher, the catcher, and the third baseman. Sometimes, when the ball is bunted into this area, it is too far from the catcher and third baseman for them to field it easily, so the pitcher has the best play.

Softball Bunting Drills – Bunt Drill Bat...

softballdrills — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:51:58 +0100

Purpose: To improve softball bunting technique.

Procedure: Equipments required are Three cones, batting helmets, gloves, balls, bats.Set up three cones on the third-base line about 10 feet from home plate. Place one cone on the line and the others two feet and four feet on the fair side of it. The coach pitches the ball. The batter squares to bunt, trying to bunt the ball between the two outside cones. Award one extra swing during regular batting practice if the batter bums the ball between the two outside cones. The batter earns two extra swings for knocking down the middle cone.

Softball Hitting Drills – Line Drive Dri...

softballdrills — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:48:51 +0100

Purpose: To improve the hitter's hand-eyes coordination

Procedure: Equipments required is a bat, a crate of softballs, a protective screen, and the location would be a batting cage, A feeder sits on a chair behind the screen in the batting cage and pitches to a batter. Strictly adhering the proper softball hitting technique, the batter should attempt to hit a line drive if the batter pops up or hits a ground ball (instead a line drive), the players switch roles.

Softball Hitting Drills – Fungo Drill

softballdrills — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:45:52 +0100

Purpose: To improve the hitter's bat control.

Procedure: Equipment required is a fungo bat, a crate of softball; the hitters should stand on the grass along the baseline near home plate. He should then toss the ball to himself and attempt to hit the ball to a designated infielder. This softball hitting drill is designed to improve the player's bat control by forcing him to hit line drives and ground balls to a specific location. If a fungo bats not available, the drill may be done with a regulation bat.

Why Do Players need to be Physically Fit...

softballdrills — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:46:26 +0100

Softball has a lot of similarity to any other sports that there. It is because just like the others, this sport also requires its players to be physically fit. Being physically fit is certainly important to any kinds of sport because players who are fit are definitely a lot stronger because they have this great energy.

As much as possible, players must be fit because this will not keep them from doing of all the important tasks that they need to do in the game. As we all know, there are a lot of comp0licated tasks that the players need to do in softball. And all of these tasks and skills that one must execute in softball need the strength that a physically fit body can give. Those who are already experts in softball can prove that it is not really easy to execute different softball skills if the body of the one who is executing it is not fit enough.

Succeeding in softball will be more possible if you are not only determined to learn all of the skills and the techniques. You don’t only need to prepare your mind here. It is also a must for you to prepare your body as well. You have to see to it that you are also physically ready in doing all of the things that must be done in softball.

Some of the skills that need the strength of your body are softball pitching, hitting, and running. These skills can be so tough if you if your body is not that ready to do all of them. You must keep in mind that if you are not able to execute all of these things properly because of your weight issues and problems then this can just serve as a hindrance for you to reach the top that you have been aiming to reach for a long time now. Don’t let your body ruin all of your plans and dreams.

You need to be physically fit when you are already on the stage of doing all the necessary softball drills. It is a common knowledge that there are some drills that are so hard to do especially if the player’s body is not fit.

The player must have this body that is fit for an athlete if he wants to perform well during the softball drills and the actual games. If you are not that fit right now then you must not worry a lot because you can still do something about it.

Doing some exercises and doing them regularly can help a lot to trim down your weight. Aside from that, you also need to eat the right foods such as fruits and vegetables. These are easier to digest and they don’t have any fats or cholesterol yet they can also give you this amazing strength especially when you are doing your softball drills. You will surely see that doing these things is effective and after a few months you will be fit. When you are already fit, you will be surprised on its effect on the way you play.

Softball Hitting Drills - Mini Heat Dril...

softballdrills — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:19:24 +0100

Purpose: This softball hitting drill is to develop the hitter’s bat speed

Procedure: Equipment required are a protective screen, a crate of whiffle golf balls; a wooden broom handle cut to the length of a bat and a batting cage. A feeder sits on a chair behind a protective screen. The hitter assumes a batting stance approximately fifteen feet away. The feeder throws pitches to each of the batter's three hit ting zones. The batter should attempt to hit the thrown ball. The hitter should quickly cock his wrists in order to make solid contact with the ball. The drill can be done with the hitter using a regulation bat against either a whiffle golf ball or a softball.

Softball Hitting Drills - Fence Drill

softballdrills — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:16:44 +0100

Purpose: To improve the Hitter's technique so that his front arm doesn't exit outward during the swing

Procedure: A player stands facing the fence. To measure the appropriate distance the fence, he touches the barrel of his bat to the fence and holds it parallel the ground with the knob of the bat touching his navel .The player should remember this distance from the fence and assume a hitting stance. He should move through five components of an effective hitting technique. If the player's bat hits the fence is extending his front arm which is a technique flaw. The player should continue softball hitting drill until he develops the proper technique of keeping his front elbow bent and hands Close to his body as he swings at an imaginary ball.

Softball Hitting Drills - Fence Drill

softballdrills — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:16:10 +0100

Why Batting Cages Play a Significant Rol...

softballdrills — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:55:28 +0100

Softball was invented and introduced to people a long time ago. From then on, this sport was already enjoyed and played by many. This is because from the very beginning, softball has already captured the interest of many. It seems to be a very unique and exciting sport and this made it different from the rest. Until now, many still opt to play this sport. As a matter of fact, ordinary people are not the only ones who are playing this; there are already thousands of professional players now all over the world who are playing this game.

This sport is said to be the favorite of people of all ages. From small children up to those who are already old still keep on playing this game. There are only few parents who do not dream that their child can be a professional softball player one day. Parents know that if they really want their child to be a professional player, they must already train them earlier. Training is absolutely important for a person or a kid to be good in this sport. There is a need for an aspiring player to learn different kinds of skills in softball and one among these skills is softball hitting.

Undoubtedly, softball hitting is the most significant skill in softball. No matter how complicated it is, all the players have no choice but to learn it because regardless of your position in the team there will come a time that you will experience to become a hitter. So if you are one of those who are really aiming to become a successful softball player then you must master the skill of hitting.

There are only few people who are born to be good in this skill. Not all of us are born with this kind of skill. Yet, even if you are not born with it, you can still achieve it if you will just dedicate some of your time practicing it. With months or years of hard work and training, for sure there is a possibility that you can already master this skill. What I am trying to say here is, if you really like to be good at this, you must act and do something about it.

It will not be enough if you will just go and memorize all the rules and the techniques because there is also a need for you to know how to utilize all of this. If you want to be excellent in softball hitting then you must try using the batting cages.

Batting cages is a place wherein you can practice the way you hit. This can help you a lot because you can execute here all the things that you know about hitting. If your team does not have a private batting cage then you can just rent one because there are a lot of batting cages out there that can be rented. You will just pay according to the number of hours that you used the batting cage. Those excellent batters that you are seeing right now have spent a lot of their time in batting cages. If you are determined to become a great hitter then start it by practicing on batting cages.

Softball Hitting Drills - Color Coded Hi...

softballdrills — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:13:02 +0100

Purpose: Improve hand-eye coordination and quicken reaction time in order to consistently hit a variety of pitches.

Procedure: Equipments that are required are Bats, softballs, pitching machine and L-screen, white and yellow dimpled balls and white, yellow and red tennis balls. As a warm up a pitcher flips a ball from each hand at the same time and instructs the batter to hit one of the two balls. For example, "High" for the high pitches, or Low for the low pitch. Another option is to use two different colored balls with the batter instructed to hit one or the other. Advanced hitters can hit at balls numbered from 1 to 3 with the goal of calling out the number on the ball before contact. For the main drill, gather up three different colored tennis balls: white, yellow and red. Set up a close range batting practice session or short toss drill from behind a screen. The batter should practice a different hit according to the color of the ball White means bunt (e.g. safe color). Yellow means curveball (e.g. caution), so the hitter should try and stay back and hit the ball the other way. Red means fastball (e.g. dead red) so sit back and rip! For further practice, perform a http://www.softballperformance.com/softball-drills/category/hitting/" target="_blank">softball hitting drill with the pitching machine using white and yellow dimpled balls. Try hitting the white one and bunting the yellow, Or hit-and-run the white, and hit to the right side for the yellow. But stress the importance of picking the ball up as early as possible. These exercises work on improving hand-eye coordination through concentration from release to contact and the actual grip of the ball at the pitcher's "L" focus upon release. Remember: Hitters shouldn't guess. These drills develop instinct and train the hands to react quickly and efficiently.

Fun Softball drills - Kick Softball

softballdrills — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:10:27 +0100

Purpose: Teach toddlers about positioning, backing up, and some basic rules of the game.

Procedure: This drill is for the age group of 6-8 equipment required is Bases and Soccer ball. Make a softball hitting and fielding team. Draw a three-foot square in the dirt around home plate. A strike is a ball which rolls over this area, and a ball is for anything outside. Have the pitcher roll the ball to the batter at moderate speed. After a fair ball kick, the batter runs to first base. No leading or base stealing. You can also try kicking a stationary ball.

Softball Practice Drills - Relay Handoff

softballdrills — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:28:36 +0100

Purpose: To teach the importance of squeezing the softball in the glove while running.

Procedure: In this softball practice drill we need one ball for each line of players,gloves. Divide the team into two (or more) even lines. The first player in each line holds one or two softballs in the glove. On the "go" command the first player in each line runs to a designated area, turns around, and runs backs to his line. After running the course the player hands the softball to the next person in line.Each person gets a chance to run with the softball. The first team to finish with the softball securely maintained in the last runner's glove wins the race. Squeezing the ball in their gloves ensures that player don't drop the ball in an intense game situation such as a rundown. Coaches may try two softballs per line, instead of just one, to speed up the drill. Runners must hand, not throw, the ball to the next person in line. Players can also run with the ball in their bare hands.

Fastpitch Softball Drills - Softball Tag

softballdrills — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:26:58 +0100

Purpose:To develop proper glove technique for squeezing? the ball when running to tag an opposing base runner.

Procedure:In this fastpitch softball drills there has to be one or two softballs in each player's glove, cones or other props to designate the playing field. Mark off the playing area on the softball diamond. Choose one player to be "it."On the "go" command the player who is it tries to tag the other players within the confined area without dropping the ball or balls from the glove. A tagged player must sit down. As more and more players are tagged cut, the coach moves the cones in to reduce the size of the playing field and to keep the pace of the game quick. Players should keep their heads up looking at the player
they're chasing and their gloves squeezed tightly as they run with the softball.