Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast

This weeks lineup:

• Shoutout segment 
• Listener Question: Daughter is struggling to hit the ball hard. (@ 9:04)
• Paige's Power Play (@ 14:14)
• Talent is increasing but passion is lagging (@ 19:09)
• Covering bases on steals (@ 40:00)
• A quality at-bat is not always a hit. (@ 48:58)

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This weeks episode discusses how to utilize assistant coaches.  As head coach you need to delegate to your assistants certain responsibilities and let them coach. You also need to make sure that all of you are on the same page and avoid anything that undermines the players confidence in you or the assistants.

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This weeks lineup:

• Shoutout Segment 
• Listener question: Daughter struggles off pitching machine, okay in game (@ 8:01)
• Paige's Power Play (@ 14:01)
• Off-Season conditioning and training (@ 17:53)
• 5 rules to becoming a great sports parent (@ 30:23)
• Sarcasm is not a good coaching philosophy (@ 44:30)

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There are situations in a game where getting an out over giving up a run puts your team in a better situation. Last inning and you are up by multiple runs with runner(s) on base. We can give up the run to make sure of an out. The objective is to keep the other team from getting a rally going. Listen as we discuss the different situations.

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This weeks lineup:

• Shoutout segment
• Listener Question: The school administration may build us a softball facility. What advice do you have? (@8:17)
• Paige's Power Play (@18:00)
• Impact of being the younger sibling.  (@22:55)
• Body Language (@46:02)
• Trap of coaching every player the same. (@54:13)

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In this weeks episode we discuss the issue of dad coaches being too hard on their own daughters. First of all we acknowledge that softball would not be as big a sport without dad coaches. For a large part dad coaches are unfairly criticized for playing daddy ball. But we have the flip side where dad coaches are unfair to their own daughters trying to prove that they are not playing daddy ball. Listen to the adjustments we think need to be made.

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This weeks lineup:

• Shoutout Segment
• Listener question: How to make a pitching mat (@13:14)
• Paige's Power Play (@17:46)
• 2021 College Softball Update (@21:59)
• Home to First Time (@35:27)
• Celebrating small victories (@46:07)

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This episode is based on a listener question of how should a player position their glove in the ready position. We discuss what a player needs to be ready for and the optimal position to have the best chance on all types of hit balls.

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This weeks lineup:

• Shoutout Segment
• Listener Question: What to do about inappropriate walk-up music? (@8:54)
• Paige's Power Play (@15:42)
• Peaks and Valleys of the softball calendar (@21:14)
• Percentages of High School players that play in college. (@39:18)
• Teach our players to backup. (@51:49)

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This weeks episode is prompted by a listener question regarding looking for a pitching instructor. There are buzz words that describe an instructors method. We break that down and suggest to not be concerned with what the method is called but does it make sense for the body to perform the repetitions required of a pitcher.

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