43 feet of Softball

It was recently reported that beginning in the 2010 - 11 fastpitch softball season that the high school pitching rubber will be moved back to the college softball distance of 43 feet. Florida and Oregon have already implemented this rule. The premise for this move is to allow more offense into the high school game of fastpitch softball.

Personally I agree with this move, but not for the reason of creating offense. I for one feel that this move will develop better college fastpitch softball pitchers. To follow my train of thought let's compare boys high school baseball. Once a baseball player enters high school they begin playing on a regulation size baseball diamond, at least in regards to the dimensions of the infield. The bases are 90 feet and the pitching rubber is 60 feet 6 inches not 57 feet 6 inches. This builds a stronger player and I believe this will do the same for the female softball pitcher.

I truly feel that the offense in the women's game of fastpitch softball is rapidly catching up to the pitching and this in my opinion couldn't be more evident then by looking at the recent scores in the college softball world series. Where two to one, three to two and one zero use to be the norm we're now seeing six to five, eight to seven, with an occasional one nothing or three two thrown into the mix. Do you think these scores have ballooned because the softball pitchers have gotten weaker? Of course not, one could make the argument that in fact women fastpitch softball pitchers are improving. Every team in this years college softball world series, for example had a pitcher that could touch 65 on the radar gun, this use to be enough to stop most hitters, but not today. Clearly college softball Hitters are getting better and so is the equipment.

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Fastpitch Softball

Fastpitch Softball videos are becoming very popular on the web, you can find a softball video for just about every position including skills videos of individual players that have spent the time putting these videos together to forward off to colleges as a recruiting tool. Whatever type of video you're looking for you can probably find, but here's a word of caution, while all of these softball videos are well intended not all provide the best information, and those that do usually only tease you with a short sample and them charge you for the remainder.




A website I like and contribute to is The Softball Clinic, the reason that I do this is that they offer up what I consider to be useful softball information, and they seem to really try to offer it for free.
If you check them out they have what the call Free E Videos, and on this page you'll find simple yet helpful videos for free that you can apply to most levels of play.

When you're looking for fastpitch softball training videos on the web be sure to look into what is being pushed and see that it meets you desired goals, the more you can get for free the better. I would also suggest that if you're an unsure parent, before you spend any money on softball videos try to compare as many free videos as possible and see how many different softball training videos are saying the same
thing, by doing this you just might save yourself a few hard earned dollars..

I hope you found this to be helpful, in today's economy a dollar saved is truly a dollar earned.. Fastpitch Softball is a great game, but it can be expensive so do your homework and you'll surprise yourself with what you may find...