To have a Pitching Coach or not to....?

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There comes a time in every young girl's pitching career that she either thinks about getting a pitching coach or decides that she needs one. My best advice to give any girl out there is to make sure you have one. A pitching coach is a good tool to have but lessons with your pitching coach do not need to take place everyday. It would be great if both parties could contribute that much time but this would also get expensive. Having a pitching coach is a good idea because by having one you can allow yourself to grow as a pitcher. Your coach can see your habits and fix them, teach you new pitches, and also attend your games to see the different things you may do in a game compared to practice.

Some Tips to finding a good Pitching Coach are...

• Make sure they are a reliable credible person. It would be a good idea to have a girl instructing you that at least played college softball.
• Make sure they are friendly and like to engage with you.
• Also, if you feel they don't pay enough attention to your personal needs move on to someone else.

Softball - There's nothing soft about it!

Many people think that since the name of our game is softball, that our ball is actually soft. For those of you who have never touched a softball, I can assure you there is nothing soft about the ball we play with. Also people say baseball, softball…what’s the difference, there is none right? WRONG! There are many differences between the game we play and the game our brothers play and it’s definitely more than just the fact that our ball is highlighter yellow.

In baseball the bases are 90 feet apart where as in softball they are just 60 feet apart. In softball the pitching rubber is just 43 feet away in college at least and the pitching mound is baseball is 60 feet from the catcher. You may realize now that softball is a faster game than baseball. A lefty slapper in division 1 softball makes it down the line in about 2.7 seconds on average, that doesn’t give much time to mess around when a ground ball is hit in the infield where in baseball I’d like to say everyone seems to take their sweet time on making a simple play. Just shared a few differences in these two very different games, but which is better?

That is for you to decide!