7 Fundamentals Every Hitter Needs to Know

Hitting a softball is not easy if you dont have the right fundamentals nailed down. Coaches emphasize correct softball hitting fundamentals because they

Tairia Flowers: Hitting softballs one eye at a time

Tairia Flowers may be the only professional athlete who wears one single contact lens. She might also be the next big slugger for the USA National Team. H

Hitters Guide to Making Contact

I am certain, by now, all of you have seen a picture of a homerun hitter, like Albert Pujols, mash one of his towering home runs. But have you really see

Directory of Active.com Softball Guides

Directory of Active.com Softball Guides By Michael Clarke Active.com From hitting drills to arm injury prevention, here is a collection of resources to kee

2 Softball Practice Drills to Improve Vision

In softball, vision refers to more than just eye sight. Vision involves the ability to accurately perceive factors such as motion, location and rotation

4 Softball Offseason Hitting Drills

This weeks tips will focus on some targeted weight training using a weighted bat or your first basemans bat (she is generally the biggest player on the tea

Softball Rundown Drill

A lot of things can go wrong in a rundown. Heres a drill to make sure your squad is able to execute mistake-free rundowns. Setting Up the Drill To comp

6 Indoor Softball Drills

In many of the northern states softball practice has to begin before the weather outside is nice enough for practice. So the first few practices have to be

5 Softball Conditioning Drills

Many coaches recognize the importance of softball conditioning. However, because there are so many things to achieve in practice, coaches just dont have

Drill of the Week: Hitting the Outside Pitch

Welcome to Drill of the Week, a series on ACTIVEkids.com that explains individual and team drills for parents and coaches to help kids improve at the sports the

Creating Game- Ready Hitters

  Is practice really preparing your batters for what theyll face in a game? Do you tend to have batters that look awesome in practice during drills or o

Generating Power From the Core

There is a common misconception that the softball swing differs greatly from a baseball swing. Its simply not true. Sure there are slight variations between the

How to Run a Softball Tryout

Not sure how to organize a fastpitch tryout? Here are some tips on how to structure your tryouts and ensure you find the best players for your squad. Advantage

Glove Work for Fielding Ground Balls

Feel like your squads glovework on ground balls could improve? Here are some tips to make sure your infielders are in a position to make the best defensive play

Infielder Technique Drill

The idea of this drill is to teach new and intermediate fielders—especially infielders—to get in the habit of centering on ground balls. (Im not s