Posts Tagged ‘fastpitch’
Adding POWER to Your Pitch |Softball is For Girls
How to add more power behind your pitch: the one movement every softball pitcher needs By T.J. Allan, CSCS, CISSN www.AHFEdwardsville.com Softball is a game of movements, not muscles. And there is one movement for softball pitchers that stands head and shoulders above the rest- hip extension. Just watch a pitcher as she prepares to…
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Fan Share Friday – Dani’s Story
We received an email from a young fan, who wanted to share her story with us, but made us double pinky swear PROMISE not to disclose who she was. Names and locations have obviously been changed, and some minor editing has been done on this post (although shes a fantastic writer and must excel in school) We are…
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Against the Odds –
For our first player/team of the week featured player, we are actually getting a little personal. Thankfully, our own children don’t read the website, or else we would certainly be in trouble for writing about one of our own daughters. Or for writing about ONLY one of our own daughters. You get it, its lose-lose…
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Fastpitch Softball – Jackie’s Story Part 1
When you show up on a Sunday afternoon to practice on a field that you have reserved in a town where field space is limited, there is nothing more irritating than finding people playing on it when you get there. The hope always is that the folks out there will see a large team edging…
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What If WE Fail? | Fastpitch Softball
When we first set up our Facebook page and website, we were driven with an immense amount of passion. It was our goal to create a community of like minded folks, whose main interest was to empower all the characters in the fast pitch theater, from and especially the athletes to the parents and coaches…
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Lessons From the Bench!
The bench. The pine. That little aluminum seat inside the dugout where you can often find downtrodden girls (and aggravated parents) who dream of being on the brick-dust and often start to feel ‘less than adept’ because they sit there so often. Parents hate the bench. And so do most kids. If you are on…
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My Daughter Plays Softball (AND She’s Terrible!)
SIFG prides itself on respecting and empowering ALL the players of fastpitch! We realize the varied levels that are out there, and for some reason there is often a wave of judgment that seems to exist in regard to those different levels of play. Select, elite, Gold, A, showcase (whatever word used in your area)…
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My Softball Player is BETTER than YOURS is!
“I’ll be honest. My softball playing beast of daughter is BETTER than yours is. She hits better, fields better, runs better, works harder, makes fewer errors and even has a better attitude than your daughter does. She is better.” How would you feel if a parent (or coach) just outright said that to you? Chances…
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One GREAT SOFTBALL Idea! SCORE-STIX
Traveling around to softball tournaments, you learn the ropes pretty quickly. By your second tournament you realize that packing extra toilet paper is a GREAT idea, that having a shade tent makes passing the hours at the field during the summer heat more enjoyable, and that a rolling wagon is well worth the $65. Still,…
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Softball Break-Ups
Breaking up is hard to do. It is. Especially in girls fastpitch softball. Often times, when one player – or one team decides to move on for whatever reason, the wounds in the background are being metaphorically licked by the young girls left behind. Say what you want about ‘letting your daughter decide,” or “letting…
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It’s Softball, It’s NOT Personal
Today, fast-pitch travel softball has reached far and wide. Millions of girls play, there are millions of teams, coaches, parents, fans, umpires, organizations and venues that cater to this sport we all know and love. It has become very competitive, which is a GOOD thing for our daughters. With better competition – they are enabled…
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“WE” versus “HER” – Softball Parenting
We got perhaps the BEST fan question ever last week. A fan question, that each of us as adults, and parents HAS to at least ask ourselves from time to time. When it comes to softball, and softball parents and players – most of us identify the it as a “WE” relationship. But is it REALLY…
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Softball is For Girls is THANKFUL
Today is Thanksgiving – and most of us are setting aside our bats and balls, bat bags and cleats to spend some time with family, friends and loved ones. As the weather gets colder (for many of us), we will soon be suffering from fastpitch withdrawals – eager for the sun to warm the frost…
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Words In Fastpitch!
On our Facebook page, we do a twice weekly ONE WORD post. In these posts, fans are encouraged to describe their teams, their teammates, coaches, their offense, their coaches, their catchers or pitchers etc. using just ONE WORD. Believe it or not, we at SIFG read every single one of these posts, and we are thoroughly…
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Tips for Fastpitch Catchers
There is a very unique set of girls that play fastpitch who are willing (and excited) to sit at the receiving end of a softball being hurled at them at impressive speeds while wearing 10 pounds of extra gear and squatting in what looks like THE most uncomfortable position. Fastpitch catchers are special indeed. Today, we pay homage! The…
