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Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast
Everything Fastpitch is a podcast hosted by Coach Tory Acheson and Coach Don McKinlay. Tory and Don are former college coaches that are now full time instructors and travel ball coaches. Since retiring form active collegiate coaching they have committed themselves to providing educational materials to the fastpitch community. This podcast is one of the resources they are providing. Their website has 500+ blog posts and they have a YouTube channel. All of these cover fastpitch softball from coaching and training beginner athletes up through college athletes. It is a great resource for players, parents and coaches. Whether it be training tips, mental aspects, coaching methods, recruiting etc. it is all covered, hence the name Everything Fastpitch.
Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast
What success really is for hitters / Specialization vs. multi-sport athletes / Do players understand catch phrases
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Tory Acheson & Don McKinlay
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This weeks lineup:
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Are winter camps a good investment? (@6:44)
- Paige's Power Play (@11:26)
- Players often think that hits are the only measure of success. We need to help them understand that their job is to hit the ball hard. They can't control where the defense is playing and if they continue to hit the ball hard the hits will come. (@15:11)
- Asking young players to specialize in softball rather than playing other sports is a bad idea. (@31:11)
- We need to check our vocabulary. Players may not know exactly what we mean when we use catch phrases. Make sure they understand what you are trying to say. (@42:07)
Warmup Segment
Listener Question: Are winter camps a good investment?
Paige's Power Play
Players often think that hits are the only measure of success. We need to help them understand that their job is to hit the ball hard. They can't control where the defense is playing and if they continue to hit the ball hard the hits will come.
Asking young players to specialize in softball rather than playing other sports is a bad idea.
We need to check our vocabulary. Players may not know exactly what we mean when we use catch phrases. Make sure they understand what you are trying to say.