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Sometimes saying “keep your hands inside, let them clear ur chest, let the ball deep, snap your wrist” just doesn’t click! And that’s okayyy! I’m a visual person as well!

Avery is here to help you all get a great look of how our hands should look when soft slapping. The first contact she makes with the inside ball is her, “keeping her hands inside the ball, letting her hands clear her chest”. The second contact she makes is her “letting the ball deep, and snapping her wrist”

Love using this drill for our soft slap warmup, training those hands to stay inside and create that early bounce.

Give it a try and see if you see the difference in a more sharper soft slap!

🔑‘s to remember when soft slapping
- let the ball travel deep
- hit the inside & top half of the ball
- your approach to the ball is not soft, keep your bat speed to contact & stop after
-barrel is up and facing the 5/6 hole

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Simple drill to help athletes find the optimal stretch for their body. Have them stride to balance, pause, then fire. If the hands float with the step, they’ll feel very restricted. If the upper body creates space away from the front hip & is able to maintain that space as the lower half fires, they will feel strong even though they’re firing from a standstill.
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Hope this helps!
-Kelsey ...

Catcher— a quick transfer is essential for a fast pop time!

In this drill we are working with the flat hand and then allowing the knee that drives to drop into place. This will help speed up your transfer and ensure you are getting your body into place to throw from your knees!

Start out slow and speed yourself up as you get familiar with the drill.

Then switch to your regular glove and progress to your normal catching position.

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Charli is working on switching to the left side as a slapper! Her first lesson here soft slapping. Building that muscle memory with our footwork and hand path to the ball.

3 words that are helping her keep it simple. You can hear me saying 🗣1. Back 2. Land 3. Snap!

But let’s get into with what those 3 words mean.

1. Back : I had Charli choose which movement she would like better. Pivoting to short stop or using the negative movement. She chose the negative movement with her right leg sliding back to the MIDDLE of her body line. As she slides that foot back her toes are now in the direction of short stop.

2. Land : when landing her left leg comes through and lands pointing her toes to short stop. Here she is in a balanced running position towards short stop with her nose over her toes. The most important part to landing is keeping our hands back and not bringing them forward.

3. Snap: on snap she sends her hands inside the top half on the ball, snaps her wrist hard over and stops immediately at contact.
Barrel is always up and above the ball and your wrist.

If you wanna learn how to slap and transition from the right to left YOU CAN DO IT! Come see me 👀 I got you like I got Charli! Can’t wait to see her progression & success in the weeks to come!! - Tianna

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Catchers! I can’t emphasize enough the importance of leg drive during our throws downs. I constantly tell my catchers to think about trying to lessen the distance from home plate to second base. In order to do that we must drive off our back leg hard and straight to our target.

Here in this drill you will see that I am already starting sideways. This helps me feel my body staying in a straight line while also working on staying balanced and in control during my throw. ...

Here’s an easy way to get young ones to feel more connected to the ground. The angle of the wedge encourages them to drive downwards instead of standing tall through their swing. If you give it a try, let me know what you think! ...

We love when our outfielders get an opportunity & CAPITALIZE on it! TSP athlete Rachel Studder making plays in right field 🔥 ...