The Softball Drill Book Author: Kirk Walker | Language: English | ISBN:
B003WT2356 | Format: PDF
The Softball Drill Book Description
Packed with 175 drills straight from the practice sessions of the game's most successful programs, The Softball Drill Book will add variety to your practices and precision to your game-day performances.
The comprehensive collection covers every aspect of the game. From warm-up to conditioning, throwing to hitting, bunting to base-running, you'll find drills to improve position skill and team execution - all from college coaches and programs that have won 13 NCAA Women's College World Series titles and dozens of NCAA regional tournament titles.
Contributors include:
-Louie Berndt, Florida State
-Carol Bruggeman, Louisville
-Yvette Girouard, Louisiana State
-Michelle Gromacki, Cal State Fullerton
-Deanna Gumpf, Notre Dame
-Carol Hutchins, Michigan
-Kelly Inouye-Perez, UCLA
-Jay Miller, Mississippi State
-Jennifer Ogee, Nebraska
-Kim Sowder, Long Beach State
-Heather Tarr, Washington
-Michelle Venturella, Iowa
-Kirk Walker, Oregon State
-Margie Wright, Fresno State
One look at the names above and it is clear, The Softball Drill Book is your blueprint for championship practices.
- File Size: 5661 KB
- Print Length: 280 pages
- Publisher: Human Kinetics; 1 edition (April 30, 2007)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003WT2356
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,719 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #15
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Softball - #33
in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Softball
- #15
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Softball - #33
in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Softball
This book is a good guide for almost all drills you want to use on practice with one or more players. Recomend to all coaches at the beginning of their carrier.
By Miran Brinovec
Kirk Walker has assembled over 175 drills organized into fourteen chapters covering training, fundamental skills, position-specific skills, and tactical drills. Each drill page states the drill's purpose, how to organize and execute it, variations of the drill, and miscellaneous coaching points. Additionally, each chapter has an introduction that provides general guidance for the topic at hand. Though there is a lot of information presented, I feel that this book does not quite live up to its promise.
One problem may be that each chapter is written by a different D1 coach, and since each D1 program has its own philosophies and points of emphasis, there seems to be a lack of continuity from chapter to chapter. Given that Kirk Walker is the Head Coach at Oregon State University, his book may have been better served focusing on Oregon State's drills, approach, values and beliefs.
Like most drill books, this one has a drill finder which tries to help the reader zero in on a drill of interest, but there is not enough granularity in the drill finder table to differentiate from one drill to the next. For example, Chapter 11, Pitching Drills, has 11 different drills yet all of them have the same exact characteristics in the drill finder matrix. As a result, the reader still has to read through each drill to determine which one best suits his/her needs. I would add an additional column in the drill finder that highlights a drill's main "Coaching Point" (as listed on each drill page).
There *are* drills that I've incorporated into my practices and there *is* plenty of good information here, but actually teasing it out and finding it can be a chore. I am glad I have this book, but it is not usually the first book to which I turn when I am stumped and need to find a solution to a practice or player problem.
By Don Mckay
The Softball Drill Book Preview
Link
Please Wait...