Fun yet Effective Softball Drills
By Marc Dagenais, MHK, CSCS, ChPC
http://www.softballperformance.com/softball-drills/
All softball players want to increase the power of their respective skills in order to make their
teams win. As a result, a lot of players are seriously engaging themselves in training and one of
the basic ways to level up their performance or skills is to undertake sets of softball drills. Doing
softball drills is not that easy to accomplish, but it requires determination and self – discipline.
Improving your abilities could be done by constant and well disciplined training, so you really
need to render much of your time with these softball drills. However, you must not take
everything gravely; let yourself have time to smile, as well. You should blend fun moments from
time to time during the training in order for you and the team to relax and to be able not to sink
in too much pressure.
The following are sets of important softball drills, which you need to mull over and to refine as
well, to be able for you and for the rest of the team to succeed on your ultimate goal and that is
to become winners!
• The color game or machine hitting – these drills will develop player’s agility. Have at
least three balls with different colors and one ball should be allotted or assigned as the
main target to hit, another is to bunt, and just take the remaining one. By doing this
softball drill the player will certainly train his focus towards the ball and the result of this,
the player will be able to make a good hit.
• Receive and pass – in this softball drill, you need to build two teams and each of the
team must have an assigned coach, for they will be the one who will be passing the
softball to the player. When the player receives the ball, he must then pass it back as
quick as he can. The first player or team who effectively accomplished the task, which is
to receive and pass, will be declared as the winner. This softball drill will develop player’s
endurance, especially nimbleness.
• Conveying signs – this is to develop player’s intellectual strength. Assign symbols that
only the team members have the knowledge on it. This will also train the team to keep
things confidential within the group and be able to understand any action plans with
these unique signs.
• One hop softball drill – this drill should be practiced twice a week, although once a week
might do so. Each player should position at least thirty feet away from each other, then
he needs to pass the ball not directly, but to pass it with just merely one jump or hop.
This will let the player familiarize the proper throwing of the softball.

These are some of the important softball drills that you need to give much time and interest in
order to increase your skills and power. Keep in mind always that in reaching one’s goal
requires a lot of determination to keep down all the trials that might come in your way.