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Softball: Steps to Success
Steps to Success is excellent as either a course text or a self-instruction guide. Either way, this unique progression of skills will help players get started quickly, make steady progress, and proceed at their own pace. In this book, 25 steps (chapters) explain why each concept or skill is important, identify keys to correct technique, help players correct common errors, explain how to practise each skill in realistic ways, list specific performance goals for each drill, and provide checklists for evaluating proper technique. Teachers and coaches need both the participant's guide and the companion teacher's guide to teach effectively. Teaching Steps to Success follows the same skill progressions as the participant's book and features management and safety guidelines, rating charts for identifying players' skill levels, 104 drills to fit various skill levels, teaching cues to maximize learning, suggestions for identifying and correcting errors, and a complete test hank of written questions.
228 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1989
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February 11, 2013
There are many books out there on softball, especially fastpitch softball. Some cover coaching, some cover drills, and still others cover the windmill pitch in fastpitch softball. Here are eight good ones: (General) Softball: Fast and Slow Pitch…ISBN-1570280258; and The Louisville Slugger Complete Book of Women’s Fast-Pitch Softball…ISBN-0805058095 --- (Coaching) Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully…ISBN-0880115467; and Successful Coaching…ISBN-0880116668 --- (Drills) Softball: Steps to Success…ISBN-0873227948; and Softball Skills & Drills…ISBN-0736033645 --- (Pitching) The Softball Pitching Edge…ISBN-0736038256; and Fastpitch Softball: The Windmill Pitcher…ISBN-1570281408.
This softball book is particularly good for beginning coaches and players. Teaches many of the basics of softball. The particular strength of this book is the inclusion of 82 drills for use in learning and practicing specific skill sets. The book is only illustrated with plain drawings. Chapters are organized around fielding, pitching, hitting, and offensive and defensive play.
This softball book is particularly good for beginning coaches and players. Teaches many of the basics of softball. The particular strength of this book is the inclusion of 82 drills for use in learning and practicing specific skill sets. The book is only illustrated with plain drawings. Chapters are organized around fielding, pitching, hitting, and offensive and defensive play.
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