Success In Softball: Indoor Defensive Practice Drills That Simulate Game-Like Pressure Situations

Bob Ligouri utilizes his years of successful softball coaching experience and Iowa Girls Coaching Association (IGCA) Hall-of-Fame-level expertise, to share his methodology for building practice segments and structuring softball drills that recreate the pressure of key in-game situations. Best of all, Ligouri’s explanations and drills are presented in a way that makes them flexible and easy to replicate with whatever in-game situation feels most important to your team.PLUS … Not only do viewers receive over 2 hours of highly valuable softball coaching information and drills that will immediately insert new life to your softball practices – but as a SPECIAL BONUS – they also receive an extra 40-minute Bob Ligouri segment called ‘Practice Competition To Improve Situational Softball Hitting.’ 

All of this softball coaching information, providing viewers with almost 3 HOURS of valuable softball-coaching content, jam-packed into one fully-loaded instructional video!

Pressure In Practice – Builds Player Resilience

Ligouri has created a wide-ranging series of pressure drills that he uses in his daily practices that are designed to build resilience in his players. These drills are explained and demonstrated through a variety of LIVE practice situations, including: 

• Pitching to win the most-critical counts and in-game situations.
• Catcher drills for developing key skills behind the plate that reflect the pressure situations of a game.
• Infield and outfield situational defensive drills that cover many of the critical challenging situations that can make or break a game.
• Throwing drills and sequences that mimic live-game scenarios.

• Building a defensive mindset in players that is critical during win-lose situations.

Practice Segments, Drills & How To Build-In Pressure 

The pitching drills segment: works through a series of 5 softball pitching drills, including some variants that place pitchers in different high-pressure, in-game situations. The drill scenarios shown in this segment are very different than the traditional bullpen routines used to train pitchers. These drills can serve as a guide and template for developing your own unique drill sets tailored to your pitching staff.

The catcher drills segment: offers demonstrations of challenge drills for softball catchers that focus on blocking and contain an excellent drill set for the steal and bunt-throws a catcher must execute during game play.

The infield drills segment: showcases 5 excellent drills for softball infielders and demonstrates how coaches can add in and build-up increasing levels of pressure to infielders by incorporating base runners and a variety of throw sets.

The outfield drills segment: follows a skill-based set of 6 proven outfield drills that work through a variety of key outfield skills and throws – based on executing in certain high-pressure, game-like situations, including: core fielding practices, throws to the cutoff and throws home.

To round things out, Coach Ligouri shows how he combines each of these drill segments together and creates an active ‘pressure throwing session,’ that is designed to work on and build-up player confidence – as they execute rapid, repeated throws at full game speed.

Special Bonus Segment: ‘Practice Competition To Improve Situational Softball Hitting’ showcasing a live action, team vs team competition where the goal is to ‘win’ the given situation.  

This highly valuable instructional softball coaching video provides a myriad of ideas for taking time-tested, proven softball drills that provide daily work to improve position skills and team skills – while giving them new life – by adding-in heavy pressure, in-game scenarios and a variety of situational factors that simulate a real game during your practice.

Observing Coach Liguori’s ‘pressure drills segments’ in his practices makes this a must-watch video for softball coaches of all levels!

135 minutes. 2022.