Facilitate Team Success, Appreciate Your Softball Team
Softball Coaching

Educate Softball Players

As coaches we educate every day, sometimes without even knowing it.  We also have the opportunity to educate softball players without setting up a specific session to relay information.  Giving a direction to our players without […]

softball team success, Softball mental skills, Softball Defensive Signals
Softball Hitting

Easy Batting Improvements

Hitting is a skill that contains many small and large actions that create the one desired fluid motion of nailing a line drive up the middle or into the gap.  The best thing to do first […]

Facilitate Team Success, Appreciate Your Softball Team
Softball Coaching

Demonstrate Softball Improvement

So often, coaches say something but do something else. Or they make a plan with the team to make big improvements and then some of the ideas fall away due to time constraints or lack […]

Facilitate Team Success, Appreciate Your Softball Team
Softball Coach Administration

Delegate Softball Tasks

As coaches, it is common for us to think that if we want things done right we need to do it ourselves.  I know that’s how I did things when I started.  What I learned […]

Keeping The Softball Lead, Introducing Mental Training Skills, Importance of Softball Education, Hitting Against a Tough Softball Pitcher, Dealing With Errors
Mental Preparation

Dealing With Errors

Dealing With Errors talks about how errors can effect performance and some tools that players can use to deal with them. Dealing With Errors Today I am going to talk about shaking off errors. This […]

Creating Team Culture
Softball Psychology

Creating Team Culture

Creating softball team culture is something that can make or break a season.  How often have you seen a team that starts out the season with no problems.  Everyone seems to be getting along with […]

Controlling What We Can in Softball
Softball Emotional Control

Controlling What We Can in Softball

What do we really have control over?  Controlling what we can in softball will not only enhance your game but give you an additional tool to maintain the flow or stay in your zone for […]

Controllables in Softball
Softball Emotional Control

Controllables in Softball

One of the most frustrating things in softball is when things are not working your way and you feel like there is nothing that can be done to change it. There are many controllables in […]

Communicating With Softball Coaches
Softball Coaching

Communicating With Softball Coaches

As a coach for over 20 years of athletes from the ages of 7 to 60, I can tell you that I have had every type of discussion with parents from how great the season […]

Facilitate Team Success, Appreciate Your Softball Team
Softball Coaching

Communicate With Your Softball Team

To communicate with your softball team is more than giving signals from the dugout or third base.  Coaches communicate at times more with their actions and body language more than their words.  Being aware of […]