Pitching Machine Bunting Drill The Pitching Machine Bunting Drill requires the setup a pitching machine just in front of the pitching plate. Adjust the settings on the machine to suit the speed and level of the athlete. Have the athlete setup in the batters box. Feed the ball into the machine and have the batter execute a bunt. It’s good practice to have the batter return to their batting position…
Full Diamond Bunting and Conditioning Drill The Full Diamond Bunting Drill requires 4 players Pitching and Bunting. Each bunting station will be situated at each of the 4 bases or points on the diamond. The pitchers will throw from the middle of the diamond to the base they’re closest. All four pitchers should throw at the same time. The player bunting will execute a the bunt and then run…
Softball New Zealand (SNZ) is organising a five-team series planned for March at Rosedale Park in Albany. This would include the New Zealand Black Sox It’s thought that Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Samoa and Czech Republic will be involved. All of these teams rank well within the top ten Fastptich Softball Nations in the world and it should be a fast paced and intense tournament. Giles has stated that negotiations…
Australian Steelers 2016 Squad The Australian Steelers team for 2016 will include the following players. James Brownlow (NSW), Aaron Cockman (WA), Nathan Dickinson (NSW), Tyson Duncan (WA), Jarryd Farrell (SA), Chris Gillies (NSW), Shaun Goffer (Qld), Joel Goodall (Vic), Mark Harris (WA), Andrew Havercroft (WA), Julian Jemmott (Qld), Marshall Kronk (Qld), Jayden Lach (NSW), Hayden Mathews (NSW), Joshua McGovern (ACT), Ryan Merriman (Qld), Kieran O’Leary (NSW), Liam O’Leary (NSW), Harrison…
Softball Australia announces 2016 Australian Steelers Softball Australia is pleased to announce acceptance of an invitation extended by Softball NZ for the Australian Open Men’s Team to attend an International Men’s Tournament in March 2017 in New Zealand. Whilst final team entries are yet to be confirmed, all indications are that it will be a very competitive and challenging event showcasing the highest level of men’s international softball. In addition…
Best Australian Player as voted on by their foreign peers.We polled 24 players from outside of Australia on who they felt were the best Australian players and pitchers.Getting the opinions of these takes out all of the bias that in-country rankers may have and these experts have the best gauge of who these players are and their abilities to perform on the field. Fastpitch World Media’s Article FWM’s #1 player…
Nutrition Introduction to Softball Nutrition Practice Drills Ok, so Nutrition in Softball is probably one of the most overlooked, or not even talked about. We hear at Top Softball Drills aren’t going into any great detail, however you can break down Softball Nutrition into three parts, these being Softball Nutrition for Games, Softball Nutrition Practice Drills and Softball Nutrition in General. Each of these have similar principles however vary according the type…
Well what a great start so far. With some effort we now have a Website, Facebook Page (50+ Followers without much effort), partnered with Perth Softball Academy Affiliated with Google Adsense and Amazon and are now looking to begin advertising for Clinics! This is also be our First Softball Blog Post on our website with hopefully many more to come!! Our first clinic was a one on one session with a young…
Who has the Worlds Best Dropball Late this year Fastpitch World Media released the results of their survey on who has the best Dropball in the World for 2015! This year saw the Men’s World Series being held in Saskatoon, along with ISC’s being played in a little over 2 months. This gave the world a chance to see how the best pitchers in the world stacked up! Adam Folkard…