Recruiting Camps: Good, Bad or Indifferent Part 2

By Phil | September 28, 2012

As a follow-up to last week’s post on “Recruiting Camps: Good, Bad or Indifferent?”
I received two excellent questions, the answers to which may be relevant to many of our followers.

The first question refers to a multi-talented player who pitches for her high school and travel teams, but only pitches at around 60 mph. In addition, she is an outstanding hitter and fielder. The father of this athlete is concerned that showcasing as a pitcher might not impress college coaches sufficiently to get them to stick around long enough to see her other considerable abilities.

What follows is an answer which should apply to any prospect under similar circumstances.

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Add 2-4 MPH to Your Fastball in 10 Minutes

By Joe Bonyai | September 26, 2012 |

How do you warm up? Do you jog out to the fence and back? Follow that up with toe touches and shoulder circles? If that’s the case you are under-preparing your body, and seriously undermining your performance. Warming up might be the last thing you want to spend time on (that goes for you too, coaches), but I’m here to demonstrate how you can literally turbo-charge your athletes in just ten minutes.

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A Practice Model for Pitchers and Catchers

By Carly | September 24, 2012 |

If you really want to reach your maximum potential as a pitcher or a catcher and help your team as much as possible, pitchers and catchers from the same team MUST practice together. We love dedicated parents and siblings who catch for their daughters/sisters, but pitchers who never throw to their catchers during their workouts leave so much potential untapped, and the same goes for catchers.

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Recruiting Camps…good, bad, or indifferent?

By Phil | September 21, 2012 |

Every season our older, more advanced students, mainly pitchers, ask the same question: Should I register for a recruiting camp? This is a much more complex issue than it would appear, especially since my answer will likely be different for pitchers than for hitters and fielders.

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How Catcher Framing Can Make or Break a Game

By Carly | September 17, 2012

A particular play in the Yankees-Orioles game on September 6th reminded me how a single strike call can make or break a game, and how important a catcher’s influence can be in getting calls. Want to learn how to use this to your advantage?

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Upper Body Strength Training for Softball Part II

By Joe Bonyai | September 12, 2012

Push ups and pull ups are the best upper body strength training exercises for softball players. However, most girls believe they’re not strong enough to perform them! In part two of this series I demonstrate how I every female athlete performing perfect pull ups as soon as possible.

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A Freebie for Our Readers!

By Carly | September 10, 2012 |

Just a few short months after our launch, we’ve exceeded 100 subscribers to our newsletter! We’re so excited to be able to share our softball training info with all of you, and we’re extremely thankful to all our readers. As a little celebration and a thank you, we made some totally free Facebook cover photos for you to use! Take as many as you want, use them as much as you want, share them with your friends, and enjoy!

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