Purpose: This fastpitch softball drill familiarize the pitcher with coming off the pitcher's mound after the windup to field a hunted or hit softball in front of the home-plate area

Procedure: Equipment required are A ball, a bat, gloves. Set up the drill with a pitcher, catcher, infielders, and bat¬ter .The pitcher throws the ball, and the batter bunts it toward third base. The pitcher fields the ball in what is scmetimes called "no man's land." Mo man's land is the area between the pitcher, the catcher, and the third baseman. Sometimes, when the ball is bunted into this area, it is too far from the catcher and third baseman for them to field it easily, so the pitcher has the best play.

Purpose: To improve softball bunting technique.
Procedure: Equipments required are Three cones, batting helmets, gloves, balls, bats.Set up three cones on the third-base line about 10 feet from home plate. Place one cone on the line and the others two feet and four feet on the fair side of it. The coach pitches the ball. The batter squares to bunt, trying to bunt the ball between the two outside cones. Award one extra swing during regular batting practice if the batter bums the ball between the two outside cones. The batter earns two extra swings for knocking down the middle cone.

Purpose: To improve the hitter's hand-eyes coordination.

Procedure: Equipments required is a bat, a crate of softballs, a protective screen, and the location would be a batting cage, A feeder sits on a chair behind the screen in the batting cage and pitches to a batter.  Strictly adhering the proper softball hitting technique, the batter should attempt to hit a line drive if the batter pops up or hits a ground ball (instead a line drive), the players switch roles.

Purpose: To improve the hitter's bat control.

Procedure: Equipment required is a fungo bat, a crate of softball; the hitters should stand on the grass along the baseline near home plate. He should then toss the ball to himself and attempt to hit the ball to a designated infielder. This softball hitting drill is designed to improve the player's bat control by forcing him to hit line drives and ground balls to a specific location. If a fungo bats not available, the drill may be done with a regulation bat.

You know that there are a lot of softball drills which help every softball player in reaching their goal to become one of the best softball players someday but do you know the real reason why you need to undergo such drills? If you do not know, all of the softball players are having their own softball drills in preparation for their upcoming game. Even the seasoned players still do these drills in order to enhance their skills needed to make their performance better than before.

Softball drills are very important because this is the opportunity for you to grow and mature. This is the perfect time for you to let your coach observe your performance so that he can make some feedback on the things you need to enhance and things that needs more improvement.

Since there are different skills you need to know in the field of softball, you need to have some drills in your training to make good in these skills. The coach should find out who among of his players still need to be trained in such skill. All drills will challenge you that is why you have to exert your effort and time to overcome these challenges. You have to possess the determination to learn softball drills so you can use them as long as you are playing softball.

As said earlier, players must be prepared enough for the upcoming game. Thus, they have to be serious in their training because this is the only time for them to correct all their mistakes. The coach should be always there to supervise his team in doing the different drills. This is one of the tough jobs of the coach. After every drill, he should call for a meeting to tell his players his observation on their performances. This is the time for him to point out all the issues to be corrected.

Some players learn the different tough softball drills through the help of videos. It is a proven fact that players can learn better if they are seeing how a certain move should be done. Watching a softball video will inspire every player to do his part in the team. But the coach should also stress out the mistakes done in the videos. He should remind his players not do the same mistake again because this will hinder them from achieving their goal to win in the competition.

There are other reasons why coaches incorporate softball drills in their training. You should not forget that drills that will enhance your softball skills have something to do on how well you will play in your next game. Your coach sees to it that both your body and mind are well prepared in your next game since both are important in dominating the game. So as a part of your team, you should take the responsibility to learn these drills to avoid having regrets in the end. Do the best that you can not because you are part of your team but because you are serious in putting your team to the top.
 

Purpose: This softball hitting drill is to develop the hitter’s bat speed

Procedure: Equipment required are a protective screen, a crate of whiffle golf balls; a wooden broom handle cut to the length of a bat and a batting cage. A feeder sits on a chair behind a protective screen. The hitter assumes a batting stance approximately fifteen feet away. The feeder throws pitches to each of the batter's three hit ting zones. The batter should attempt to hit the thrown ball. The hitter should quickly cock his wrists in order to make solid contact with the ball. The drill can be done with the hitter using a regulation bat against either a whiffle golf ball or a softball.

Purpose: To improve the Hitter's technique so that his front arm doesn't exit outward during the swing

Procedure: A player stands facing the fence. To measure the appropriate distance the fence, he touches the barrel of his bat to the fence and holds it parallel the ground with the knob of the bat touching his navel .The player should remember this distance from the fence and assume a hitting stance. He should move through five components of an effective hitting technique. If the player's bat hits the fence is extending his front arm which is a technique flaw. The player should continue softball hitting drill until he develops the proper technique of keeping his front elbow bent and hands Close to his body as he swings at an imaginary ball.

Purpose: Improve hand-eye coordination and quicken reaction time in order to consistently hit a variety of pitches.

Procedure: Equipments that are required are Bats, softballs, pitching machine and L-screen, white and yellow dimpled balls and white, yellow and red tennis balls. As a warm up a pitcher flips a ball from each hand at the same time and instructs the batter to hit one of the two balls. For example, "High" for the high pitches, or Low for the low pitch. Another option is to use two different colored balls with the batter instructed to hit one or the other. Advanced hitters can hit at balls numbered from 1 to 3 with the goal of calling out the number on the ball before contact. For the main drill, gather up three different colored tennis balls: white, yellow and red. Set up a close range batting practice session or short toss drill from behind a screen. The batter should practice a different hit according to the color of the ball White means bunt (e.g. safe color). Yellow means curveball (e.g. caution), so the hitter should try and stay back and hit the ball the other way. Red means fastball (e.g. dead red) so sit back and rip! For further practice, perform a softball hitting drill with the pitching
machine using white and yellow dimpled balls. Try hitting the white one and bunting the yellow, Or hit-and-run the white, and hit to the right side for the yellow. But stress the importance of picking the ball up as early as possible. These exercises work on improving hand-eye coordination through concentration from release to contact and the actual grip of the ball at the pitcher's "L" focus upon release. Remember: Hitters shouldn't guess. These drills develop instinct and train the hands to react quickly and efficiently.

Purpose: Teach toddlers about positioning, backing up, and some basic rules of the game.

Procedure: This drill is for the age group of 6-8 equipment required is Bases and Soccer ball. Make a softball hitting and fielding team. Draw a three-foot square in the dirt around home plate. A strike is a ball which rolls over this area, and a ball is for anything outside. Have the pitcher roll the ball to the batter at moderate speed. After a fair ball kick, the batter runs to first base. No leading or base stealing. You can also try kicking a stationary ball. 

Purpose: To teach the importance of squeezing the softball in the glove while running.

Procedure: In this softball practice drill we need one ball for each line of players,gloves. Divide the team into two (or more) even lines. The first player in each line holds one or two softballs in the glove. On the "go" command the first player in each line runs to a designated area, turns around, and runs backs to his line. After running the course the player hands the softball to the next person in line.Each person gets a chance to run with the softball. The first team to finish with the softball securely maintained in the last runner's glove wins the race. Squeezing the ball in their gloves ensures that player don't drop the ball in an intense game situation such as a rundown. Coaches may try two softballs per line, instead of just one, to speed up the drill. Runners must hand, not throw, the ball to the next person in line. Players can also run with the ball in their bare hands.