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Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Softball (Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Sports)
Author: Robert Benson
ISBN-10: 0736078835
ISBN-13: 9780736078832
Published: 2009-10-16
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Book Description:
You volunteered to coach the softball team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Softball has the answers.Longtime coaches Robert and Tammy Benson share their experiences and provide advice you can rely on from the first practice to the final game. Establishing realistic goals, in-game coaching tips, drills, strategies, and fun—it's all here.Develop your team's fundamental skills—fielding, catching, throwing, and hitting—with the Survival Guide's collection of the game's best youth drills. Included is a section on pitching instruction, and the ready-to-use practice plans will help you get the most out of every practice. Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Softball has everything you need for a rewarding and productive season. So step up and enjoy the experience. It will be one that you won't forget.
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High-Scoring Softball
Author: Ralph Weekly Jr.
ISBN-10: 1450401392
ISBN-13: 9781450401395
Published: 2012-04-10
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Plain and simple, championship teams score runs. Their offenses are consistent, aggressive, opportunistic, and disciplined. They may manufacture runs or rely on the long ball, but they score early and often. And they win. High-Scoring Softball is the definitive guide for offensive play. The game’s most successful coaching duo, Ralph and Karen Weekly, share the approach that has shaped some of the game’s top scoring offenses and generated more than 1,700 career victories. Inside you’ll find detailed instruction, advice, and coaching tips on mastering offensive fundamentals, such as baserunning, bunting, slap hitting, and hitting for power and average. You’ll learn how to evaluate your team’s talents, tendencies, and strengths and create a potent, offensive attack. And a detailed analysis of common game situations provides you with strategies and advice for capitalizing on every opportunity. Defense may win games, but only if you score. With High-Scoring Softball you will score and you will win. It will change the way you play the game.
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Coaching Girls' Softball: From the How-To's of the Game to Practical Real-World Advice--Your Definitive Guide to Successfully Coaching Girls
Author: Kathy Strahan
ISBN-10: 0761532501
ISBN-13: 9780761532507
Published: 2001-08-09
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Coach Girls for Success on and off the FieldCoaching girls' softball can be a wonderful experience. Witness the intensity of a batter connecting with a ball, a runner digging for home, or a fielder making a great catch, and you can't help but be inspired. The effort, pride, and enjoyment on players' faces are great rewards for parents and the sign of a good coach—the type of coach you want to be. So how can you get there?Perfect for coaches of girls up to age 13, Coaching Girls' Softball includes everything you need to be an outstanding coach and mentor to your team. Whether you are a seasoned coach looking to fine-tune your skills or a rookie looking to take the field running, you'll discover techniques for success that are tailored specifically to the needs of girls, including:·Drills and strategies for coaches new to the world of coaching softball ·Tips on what girls want and need from their softball experience ·Practical suggestions on how to motivate in a positive and encouraging way ·Advice for helping girls deal with their changing bodies ·And much more! Now you can be a coaching winner and help bring out the best in your players, both on the field and in the game of life.
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The Softball Pitching Edge - 2nd Edition
Author: Cheri Kempf
ISBN-10: 0736084320
ISBN-13: 9780736084321
Published: 2013-02-01
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Book Description:
The best-selling softball pitching guide of all time returns, in a completely updated and enhanced second edition! With The Softball Pitching Edge, you’ll go inside the game with legendary pitching coach Cheri Kempf, learn to improve your mechanics, lower your ERA, develop an arsenal of pitches, and shut down (and shut out) opposing teams. This special book and DVD package dissects every stage of the pitching motion, allowing you to identify common flaws in your delivery and adjust mechanics for more consistent and accurate results. With proven pitching drills, you will fine-tune proper mechanics, master the motions, and increase overall arm strength. The Softball Pitching Edge will show you how to develop a variety of pitches, including the change-up, the drop, the rise, the curveball, and the screwball. Moreover, you’ll learn what pitches to throw, and in what location, in specific game situations. From technique to strategy, you’ll have all of the tools to become the ace of the staff. Cheri Kempf has helped develop thousands of pitchers as the owner and pitching instructor at Club K, the largest indoor training facility for fastpitch softball players in North America. She will improve your game. So whether you are a pitcher aspiring to the next level or a pitching coach looking to elevate the performance of your staff, Softball Pitching Edge is the one book you must own.
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Coaching Softball Technical & Tactical Skills
Author: American Sport Education Program
ISBN-10: 073605376X
ISBN-13: 9780736053761
Published: 2008-12-22
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Book Description:
Unlike other softball instruction books, Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills goes beyond teaching the technical basics and focuses on skills such as in-game decision making and detecting the strengths and weaknesses of opponents—the tactical skills—to prepare players for game day. This text is written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), the nation's leading sport education provider, in conjunction with content experts Kirk Walker and Mona Stevens and endorsement from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA), the premier national organization for fastpitch softball. Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills features cues to help you teach your athletes the fundamental technical and tactical skills, over 175 photos depicting the appropriate techniques, and examples of season and practice plans to help you prepare for games. Skills are organized and cross-referenced so you can see how they relate to each other. Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills covers virtually all facets of softball: evaluating techniques, situational tactical skills, and season, practice, and game planning guides. Softball coaches and players alike will reap the benefits from this easy-to-use resource.
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Coaching Youth Softball, Fourth Edition
Author: American Sport Education Program
ISBN-10: 0736062580
ISBN-13: 9780736062589
Published: 2007-01-04
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Fun, safety, and effective instruction are the focus of the fourth edition of Coaching Youth Softball, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, cultivates a love of the game, and motivates your athletes to come out for the team year after year. Numerous coaching books present the skills and drills of softball. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Endorsed by Babe Ruth Softball, Coaching Youth Softball is focused on teaching offensive and defensive skills through gamelike drills, which sets it apart from the current lineup of softball coaching books.The fourth edition includes 12 new drills and 37 age-specific coaching tips that are sure to jump-start your practices, all in a reorganized format geared for sequential learning and quick reference.Coaching Youth Softball's double play of softball fundamentals and essential coaching skills, like communicating with parents and officials, motivating players, and preparing for games and practices, makes this book a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young athletes.
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Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Softball
Author: Rob Price
ISBN-10: 193254948X
ISBN-13: 9781932549485
Published: 2006-04-01
Publisher: Price World Publishing
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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Softball is the most comprehensive and up-to-date softball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round softball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results .No other softball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training . This book will have players increasing arm strength, bat speed, and overall quickness and power on the diamond, leading to an increase in batting average, on-base percentage, steals, and overall performance. You will build the strength and power needed to hit the ball out of the park and you will build the stamina and endurance needed to go strong until the final pitch.Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.
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Practice Perfect Baseball
Author: American Baseball Coaches Association
ISBN-10: 0736087133
ISBN-13: 9780736087131
Published: 2009-12-31
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Successful seasons don’t begin on opening day. They begin long before, in the cages, gym, locker room, and practice field. There, consistency, execution, and teamwork form the foundations of powerhouse programs and championship titles. While most coaches understand the importance of practice, far fewer have perfected it year after year, team after team. In Practice Perfect Baseball, the game’s premier collegiate coaches share their approaches, experiences, and philosophies on every facet of practice. This authoritative guide goes beyond the stretches and drills straight to the heart of winning—effort and attitude. From structuring sessions to evaluating practice performance, the vast information allows you to choose what you wish to implement in your program. You’ll find unique insights and invaluable advice from the all-star roster of contributors: Ed Cheff Pete Dunn Dan Hartleb Steve Jaksa Tim Jamieson Mark Johnson Keith Madison Sean McNally Dave Perno Gary Pullins Terry Rooney Dave Serrano Gary Ward Bob Warn In Practice Perfect Baseball, you‘ll identify and establish a practice ethic, learn to assess team strengths, and develop players’ skills in the field, on the mound, or at the plate. You’ll also learn to make the most of indoor practices, incorporate technology to perfect skills and evaluate performance, and prepare your team for upcoming opponents. Developed by the American Baseball Coaches Association and edited by Bob Bennett, Practice Perfect Baseball is essential reading for every coach at every level of the sport.
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Defensive Softball Drills
Author: Jacquie Joseph
ISBN-10: 088011715X
ISBN-13: 9780880117159
Published: 1998-04-21
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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" Many successful softball teams boast a sweet-swinging slugger or a ""can't-touch-this"" starting pitcher, but softball teams that win championships are built on a framework of solid team defense. In Defensive Softball Drills, Coach Jacquie Joseph provides coaches with 66 proven drills for building this framework. She presents drills for learning and mastering skills at each position and for molding players into a finely tuned defensive unit.Recent trends in the sport-livelier balls, increased bat technology, the left-hand slapper, and, at the collegiate level, the greater distance from the pitching mound to the plate-have resulted in more offense. Defensive Softball Drills provides the practice tools to counteract those advantages to give teams the winning edge.All of the drills are accompanied by coaching points and detailed illustrations. The book also includes a handy drill finder for locating drills to work on specific areas and situations. The drills focus on: - eliminating the big inning- perfecting ball-catching skills- employing an aggressive defensive style - working on the mental aspect of defenseThe drills are geared toward middle and advanced level fastpitch players, but slowpitch players and beginning fastpitch players will benefit from them, too. "
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Winning Softball Drills: A Complete Drill Book for Coaches
Author: Dianne I. Baker
ISBN-10: 188013800X
ISBN-13: 9781880138007
Published: 1991-06
Publisher: Winning Softball Enterprises
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