Defensive Softball Drills
"<html> <head> </head> <body><p> <br />Many successful softball teams boast a sweet-swinging slugger or a ""can't-touch-this"" starting pitcher, but softball teams that win championships are built on a framework of solid team defense. </p><p>In <i>Defensive Softball Drills</i>, Coach Jacquie Joseph provides coaches with 66 proven drills for building this framework. She presents drills for learning and mastering skills at each position and for molding players into a finely tuned defensive unit.</p><p>Recent trends in the sport-livelier balls, increased bat technology, the left-hand slapper, and, at the collegiate level, the greater distance from the pitching mound to the plate-have resulted in more offense. <i>Defensive Softball Drills</i> provides the practice tools to counteract those advantages to give teams the winning edge.</p><p>All of the drills are accompanied by coaching points and detailed illustrations. The book also includes a handy drill finder for locating drills to work on specific areas and situations. </p><p>The drills focus on: </p><p>- eliminating the big inning<br />- perfecting ball-catching skills<br />- employing an aggressive defensive style <br />- working on the mental aspect of defense</p><p>The drills are geared toward middle and advanced level fastpitch players, but slowpitch players and beginning fastpitch players will benefit from them, too.</p><p></p></body> </html>"