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This approach can be useful in teaching the technical skills of softball, but unless coaches shape, focus and enhance the scrimmages or drills, the athletes may not successfully translate the skills to game situations, leaving coaches to ponder why their team practices better than it plays. The games approach emphasizes the use of games and minigames to provide athletes with situations that are as close to a real game as possible (Alan G. Launder, Play Practice, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics,...
Catching is one of the easiest skills for a good softball player and one of the most alarming for a beginning player. Catching a Throw Catching is one of the easiest skills for a good softball player and one of the most alarming for a beginning player. Centering the body on the ball puts the player in the best position not only to adjust to a ball that she has misread or that might curve slightly but also to see the ball well and catch it in front of the throwing-hand shoulder.
Have one player stand in foul territory by 1B with a bucket of balls to simulate a throw getting away from the first baseman, and have another player stand on the foul side of 3B to simulate a throw kicking off the third baseman on an attempted pick-off from the catcher. The runner at home runs to 1B as if she has hit a base hit in the infield. She picks up the player standing in foul territory to see if this player tosses a ball off to the side to simulate a ball kicking off the glove of ...
Many studies have extolled the benefits of walking, including the Netherlands’ 2010 National Recreational Walking Monitor (in Dutch, see http://www.wandelnet.nl/sites/default/files/docs/nationalewandelmonitor-downloadpdf.pdf). A regular walker is someone who walks 30 minutes a week at a minimum and who also makes longer walks regularly. A review of the benefits of walking by Lee and Buchner (2008)—specially made for a walking conference—revealed that “walking is a simple health behavior that...
