Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast
Everything Fastpitch is a podcast hosted by Coach Tory Acheson and Coach Don McKinlay. Tory and Don are former college coaches that are now full time instructors and travel ball coaches. Since retiring form active collegiate coaching they have committed themselves to providing educational materials to the fastpitch community. This podcast is one of the resources they are providing. Their website has 500+ blog posts and they have a YouTube channel. All of these cover fastpitch softball from coaching and training beginner athletes up through college athletes. It is a great resource for players, parents and coaches. Whether it be training tips, mental aspects, coaching methods, recruiting etc. it is all covered, hence the name Everything Fastpitch.
Episodes
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Help with finding the right size bat (@14:35)
- Never ending discussion on travel players playing rec ball (@19:14)
- How much enthusiasm is too much? (@30:29)
- Eliminate I hate slow pitching excuse (@35:12)
Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Does a player have to be a super star to be recruited? (@12:22)
- Mad Dad Syndrome (@20:34)
- Coaches communicate properly (@31:29)
- Teach Sliding (@35:18)
Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Can we save college sports? (@10:55)
- High School Politics (@18:29)
- Rec and travel issues (@27:41)
- Greatest coaches of all time (@35:19)
This week's lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Comments about lack of pitchers (@8:24)
- Feedback about travel ball players participating in Rec Leagues (@16:12)
- Why so many California players in college (@24:25)
- Have a pre-game routine (@30:22)
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Statement: Mental training for players and psychological intervention for parents (@12:57)
- Transitioning from the 11 inch ball to the 12 inch ball (@21:47)
- What's happened to Rec ball (@32:34)
- Plan for all player's needs not an isolated one (@44:36)
This week's lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: What impact will all the new NCAA changes on the horizon have? (@18:35)
- Great hitting mechanics, but fails in a game (@30:51)
- Managing parents to parents politics (@45:08)
- Rundown disasters (@56:01)
Coach Tory shares a situation where he had to listen to a coach go into a tirade with his team. This is not how to coach especially early in the season. Listen as the coaches discuss this type of behavior.
This week's lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Age cutoff changes may be affecting tryout situation (@14:44)
- College season observations (@24:00)
- Spend your money wisely (@38:29)
- Teach skills correctly from the beginning (@45:43)
In today's environment in the travel ball world, it is imperative that a coach have a strategy/plan on handling their lineup. And it needs to be communicated to the players and parents and be adhered to if you want to have to a better experience.
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Fallout from trying out for next year's team already this year (@16:04)
- Stanford playing in football stadium (@27:57)
- Eating better at tournaments (@38:30)
- Communicating with language, phrases and vocabulary that matches your player's level (@44:39)
Coaches - You must have a player to player communication system, practice it and make sure it is implemented.
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Taking a called first strike? (@12:58)
- Cool development in college softball (@24:08)
- Observations at the ball park and glove care (@39:03)
- Teaching pitchers to attack the zone (@41:41)
We teach our players to wipe off/forget a mistake and not let it affect our performance in the game. But we don't really want them to forget it, because mistakes are how we learn and identify what we need to practice. The discussion today is how to handle this dilemma.
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Could the SEC have all 8 teams at the CWS? (@13:27)
- Reaction to the question Does any player chose to be a pitcher only? (@21:15)
- Helping catchers to improve their throwing (@30:12)
- Art of patience (@38:01)
Especially early in the season our pitchers need practice against hitters and hitters need to see some live pitching. The coaches discuss the need and some options to make this happen.
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Feedback from "praise loudly, criticize quietly" (@17:11)
- Pitcher's are hitting (@28:56)
- Follow up to reverse daddy ball (@29:58)
- What is a bracket ready pitcher? (@46:57)
- Compete with yourself (@56:23)
All fields have to be maintained. A lot of players think that it just happens and don't understand the things that have to be done to keep the field playable. By teaching and having them perform some field maintenance they will have more respect for the facilities and lessen the impact of damage during play. And a lot of school ball settings require them to do field work.
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Are 2 different pro leagues good or bad? (@8:30)
- How to win the right way (@14:02)
- Make use of limited practice time (@20:39)
- Create environment where it's save to make a mistake (@29:24)
There are many different ways to be ready to play a defensive position. We have to teach our players how to move to ready so they are not stationary. A lot of players, especially younger players do not understand this concept.
This week's Lineup
- Warmup Segment
- Listener Question: Unusual situation with player handling the pressure of playing for dad coach(@8:20)
- Recruiting Questions (@16:05)
- Kickoff to the college season (@21:47)
- Learning by watching (@28:13)
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