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Softball Flaws and Fixes - Stays on Backside or Collapses

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Suzy Willemssen
http://www.eteamz.com/GloryGold  
703-978-3166

Suzy grew up in Waterloo, Iowa where she was the first female to play in the boys baseball program. She was a 4 sport athlete in high school and was an all-state player in volleyball, basketball and softball. She played softball at the University of Iowa, where she also earned a B.S. in Physical Education Suzy is currently the head coach of 18u Glory Gold, an ASA junior olympic gold team and has just been named the head coach for Episcopal High School. Prior to the EHS position Suzy was the head coach at Chantilly HS and an assistant varsity softball coach at West Springfield High School. She has over 35 years of experience either as a player, coach or teaching professional. In addition to her private lessons, she has run or been an instructor for numerous youth, high school and college softball camps and clinics. Suzy gives instruction on all facets of the sport and is known for her knowledge, passion and enthusiasm for the game.  

Softball Flaws and Fixes - Stays on Backside or Collapses

This video will discuss softball flaws and fixes specifically stays on backside or collapses.

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Suzy Willemssen: Hi! It's Suzy Willemssen and this is Megan Fouse. I coach the 18 under Blue Jays Gold, 18 and under ASA Junior Olympic Fast Pitch softball Team and on this drill we are going to be working on getting some rhythm and making sure we don't collapse on our backside or stay on our backside. So my players actually call this the Happy Gilmore Drill, some coaches call it the walk up drill.

As you notice -- as Megan will demonstrate we are work in a nice fluid motion and we make sure that when we are hitting the ball we want to be rotating around our front hip. So Megan will demonstrate again fluid rotating around the front hip, a nice rhythmic action; here is Happy Gilmore.

Again, you can see how great this drill is for making sure your player is rotating around that front hip, hitting off a nice firm front side and we certainly aren't collapsing. So it gives us good nice, clean, line drive; everything we hit will be nice and hard.

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