Softball Drills and Skills Videos

When your team is focusing on softball hitting, you want to do your best to have as many players hitting at one time. The above video addresses this topic. This video first shows an example of a typical boring practice. For the first twenty seconds, you’ll just observe…does it looks like your type of practice? Instead of having twelve girls standing around, only one girl hitting, and the coach trying to pitch at the speed the hitters are used to, amp up your practice to allow all of your players participate in various drills. After watching a boring practice, you’ll [More]

In this video, the instructor is demonstrating an infielder drill that focuses on quick feet and timing. The drill involves setting up a line of cones or pipes and starting on one side with the glove out. The goal is to lead with the left foot, hop over to the other side, and lead with the right foot on the way back. The instructor emphasizes the importance of staying light and quick on the feet and keeping the glove out to control it better. The drill also works on timing, where the infielder needs to feel the ground ball as [More]

This video examines proper head and upper body positioning during the pitch. Also shows proper body angle during the stride.

Nice breakdown of “old-fashioned” pepper drill. Teaches batter to look the ball in and allows defensive players lots of fielding opportunities. This is a good drill for pre-game also.

Nice collection of drills for hitting indoors. One hand drills works each hand separately using a hitting stick and small wiffle balls. My personal favorite is the hitting a wiffle ball on a wiffle ball drill. Make sure to have appropriate size bats available for smaller girls.

The toe touch position is one of the most important to look at in hitting. All great hitters get to the toe touch position differently. Toe touch is important because it is the last position we are in before swinging. This video recaps what happens at toe touch from the ground all the way up to the arms and hands.

Work on defensive fundamentals indoors. Excellent communication drill to help get your players talking.

In this video, Coach Justin from Ultimate Baseball Training provides tips for catching a fly ball in baseball. The techniques described are great for softball outfielders too. He explains that looking into the hitting zone is essential to improve the jumps on the baseball. Players need to recognize the ball coming towards them quickly rather than following the pitcher’s arm circle. The coach then explains the importance of getting a good drop step to avoid wasted movement, making sure the player opens their hips to gain ground. To further improve their skills, outfielders need to beat the ball to the [More]

In this video, the presenter is demonstrating how to catch a softball for beginners. She explains that beginners often struggle with which way to turn their glove when the ball is thrown in different directions, and they may also be intimidated when the ball is coming at them. To help beginners overcome these challenges, the presenter shows a few progression drills that start with catching soft and small objects like tennis balls and gradually move up to catching an actual softball being thrown from a distance. The first step is to teach beginners how to turn their glove. The presenter [More]

This drill focuses on soft toss batting practice. Demonstrates how to simulate a change-up with soft toss.

This is a video of a coaching session with Mike Candrea, the head softball coach of the women’s Olympic softball team, on the topic of baserunning. Candrea starts by stating that there are two keys to a good offensive player – the ability to swing the bat and the ability to run the bases. He emphasizes that being smart and knowing how to run bases properly is just as important as being quick. Candrea then proceeds to discuss baserunning techniques, beginning at home plate, and moving on to each base, including the different leads and responsibilities at each base. When [More]

During the above video, we’re going to talk about some troubleshooting you can take on with regards to softball pitching. One thing you see a lot of with pitchers is that they don’t get their arm circle in the right position. This means that you don’t see them getting their arm tight by their ear, reaching tall at the top, and getting nice and tight by the body. If you have a pitcher who doesn’t have a good arm circle, there are two things you can do with them. First, you can have them, before they pitch, work on pointing [More]