what is the basic skills in softball?
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You need to be able to throw a ball, catch a ball, hit a ball with a bat, and run.
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I was a pitcher for cabbageball, and softball from 7 years to 18 years.......first off,  just focus on the catchers mitt........take a deep breath and hit your target......tune out the cheering and those stupid songs the other team sings to distract you.........focus, focus, focus............don't try to throw too hard, or too soft, get a good method down and practice your butt off.....maybe if you have a fence in your yard,  put a paper plate on it and aim at it,,,,, x marks the spot!!!!  good luck!
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softball game consists of at least 7 innings. In each inning, each team bats until three batters have been put out (see below). The teams take turns batting. Officially, which team bats first is decided by a coin toss,[2] although a league may decide otherwise at its discretion. The most common rule is that the home team bats second. Batting second is advantageous.\n\nIn the event of a tie, extra innings are usually played until the tie is broken. If the home team is leading and the road team has just finished its half of the seventh inning, the game ends because it is not necessary for the home team to bat again.\n\nIn all forms of softball, the defensive team is the fielding team; the offensive team is at bat or batting and is trying to score runs.
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Go to this site and poke around a bit. Lots of good softball stuff there. There is also a tips and drills area, look for it, it should give you what you need.\n\nhttp://eteamz.active.com/fastpitch/boards/fastpitch/
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3 main components of the game\n1. feilding \n2. hitting \n3. Base running
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Start with people you know....I coach a women's leagur softball team in KY. If this is your first time coaching, sometimes the parks or recreation centers will give you names of people who play....Also, here, we can go to the park on ANY saturday and there are tons of people just playing ball for fun. Talk to some of them too.
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Main skills needed for level 4:\nFLOOR: Roundoff backhandspring, front limber, bridge kickover, handstand forward roll.\nVAULT: Run, hit the spring board land in a handstand on a stack of mats and fall onto your back.\nBARS: glideswing, Pullover, front hip circle, cast, Shoot through,  mil circle,  back hipcircle,  undershoot\nBEAM: Handstand, Half turn, Squat Turn, Side handstand dismount.
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Just keep taking grounders.  Get in front of the ball.  Keep your glove down.  Watch the ball all the way into your glove.  Use two hands.  Don't worry about making the throw; you have to field the ball first. Don't get nervous. Just keep practicing and work on the fundamentals that I described.
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Check out http://www.ultimatecollegesoftball.com/ it's  a very informative place for softball fanatics.
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Not All Softballs are harder.\nIt's the new material they're made from and the compression of the center core.\nSoftballs are measured by core rating and compression.\nCore are rated from 40 core to 50 core\ncompression is rated 300 compression(restricted flite) to 525 compression (Hot and long flite).\nBaseballs are the same way you have live core and dead core.\nWhen see a lot of Home Runs hit in a season they're using a live core. When the Home Runs are lower they're using a dead core.\nIn the Hone Runs Derby they have during the All Star Game. Those balls are hot, along with their bats.\nSame way when you get to batting practice and see the guys hit a lot of Home Runs those balls are hot to put a show on for the fans.\nIn Softball you have different associations ASA,NSA. ISP, USSSA,Super League(The big boys of softball).\nThe bats have hotter too. Also the prices reaching up to and a past $400.00 per bat.\nAll the different materials these softball bats are made of is crazy.\nIt has taken the game to a crazy level(and somewhat dangerous for the players the way the ball comes off the bats.\nIt has taken the fun out of the game when there were wooden bats and the first Alumiunm bats came out.After 1986 the bat market got crazy.\nSame way with the hotter softballs . Red Dot, Steele. Rocket Ball. Now the balls are hotter and some are getting hotter to match the bats.Then other ways they make the balls hotter(in the microwave & freezing(or cooling what some call it)the softballs). Anything to get that edge rather than using their abilities.\nI've seen guys weighing 135 pounds hitting the balls 350' with no trouble with the bats and balls out there.\nIf you need anyother information you can go to different softball websites and check out the band bats and balls(because how hot they are).\nwww.asasoftball.com, USSSA.com\nI hope this help and answered your question.
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The coaches will be looking for fundementals.  Make sure that you do everything the right way and make good throws.  If you need to, overexaggerate things like catching flyballs with two hands, and fielding groundballs in front of you.
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check thid site http://www.softball.org/default.asp
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go to any sporting goods store(i.e.-dicks, sports authority,dunhams and so on). get a baseball scorebook(some stores even have a softball scorebook). in the front of the book(or back) they give an easy step by step instructions on how to keep score. remember in softball you have 4 outfielders not 3 so the   positions in the oufield are left, left center, right center and right. most score booke have diagrams in them. good luck.\n\nmike
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Im the same do the basics,anotther good thing to do is practice your bat swing,im talkin about bat speed,knowing what each pitch looks like,train your eye to pick up the ball mid way between you and the pitcher,make sure your timing is right,dont over step with your lead foot its all in your hips anyway,my coach taught us to place your toe to the cornner of the plate and then bring your toe to where the back of your foot is so you can make contact on any pitch,(on and inside pitch your going to turn your hips sooner making your bat come come closer to you.its the oppsite for and outside pitch your going to wait on the ball and take a slight step inside at the same time swinging your hips to the outside.as for feilding get a good jump on the ball and dont make a catch in an ocward position,get a good angle.
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There are a few, but to start, I will tell you the basics\n1: Softball fields are generally shorter(from home to 1st base) than baseball, I think it is sixty feet instead of ninety, so there are more hits.\n2: Softball is thrown underhand. that means you kind of lob it instead of throwing it abov your head, which of course, is faster. So underhand slows down the pitch and guess what, gets easier the hits. \n3: Soft ball balls are a bit bigger than baseball balls,  think it is pretty big. \netc\n(ps: you only need those three, enough if you are wondering out of curiousity.)
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A good foundation for most of the drills I use is the circle drill. A coaches tosses the ball to a passer, the ball is passed to a catcher who hands the ball off to the coach. The passer becomes the catcher, the catcher moves to the line to become the passer. Most volleyball teams use a similar format. This keeps the players involved in the drill and you don't have to chase balls.\n\nWith the foundation of the circle drill, you can practice other skills. \n - receiving: 3 players ready to receive a serve. Whom ever picks up the serve becomes the catcher. The space is filled by the next in line.\n - communication: two players standing in the middle of the court. When signaled the sprint to the sideline and return to pick up a tossed ball without banging into each other. Calling out the ball is necessary. Use circle drill foundation.\n - ball control/hand-eye coordination: Using circle drill, have the players pass the ball back to themselves. Bump the ball in the air but they must clap 5 times (spin around, whatever) and catch the ball before it lands.\n\nThere are numerous drills. The key is to correct before bad habits are formed. Good Luck!
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the most basic is a glove and cleats, but alot of people like sliders, which come in two forms, padded shorts and things that look like soccer shin gaurds, and some people can't hit without their own batting gloves and thier own bat. Usually a coach will provide balls, extra bats, tees, batting helmets, pitching machines, bases, pitching and catching equipment (but people who are serious catchers have their own gear, which is a helmet, chest plate, leg gaurds, and a catcher's glove) \n\ni think that's about it....