Favorite Place to Be

Favorite Place to Be

Sand engraving into the fibers of your socks

Hot beating sun leaving a red tint to the fair skin 

Fresh cut green grass fills the air

 

The ring of the bat echoing through the town

Misting sprays hit your neck, sending a spiral of chills down your body

The snap of the glove as the pitcher cracks a fast ball to the catcher

 

The hot summer nights, where the bugs fly high into the lights

Where you find a home away from home

The softball field

 

It is the place I love to be

Where I feel like no one is judging me for what I love

It is just me.

 

 



Develop Your Skills

http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/technical-and-tactical-skill-development-essential-for-softball-success
I like this website, because it not only gives you details on what you need to have for softball, but ways to execute the game easier. It gives good ways to improve the skill of your game. I also like this website  because it breaks down the sport. This would be a good website if you want to make yourself a better softball player or start to make yourself better for this summer.

What Softball Means to Me

Softball a word you hear in the summer around those die hard softball players. I am one of those players. The one that start practicing for the game when spring finally comes around. The ones that spend those hot summer nights playing until the ball becomes an invisible ghost. The tournaments that take up more than half of your summer, but are well worth it in the future. It is meeting friends that you will get to be with for the rest of your life. The excitement that overcomes you when you put those brand new steel cleats; on your feet. Getting to share the awesome experiences of winning a state title or going all the way to nationals. I love this sport and this is what it means to me. Softball is my everything! It is my love and my passion.

Fear Never Crossed My Mind

When you love something usally you do not have any fear towards what you love, or at least that is what I thought. When I had my softball accident this summer I never thought that I would be so scared to play the sport that I love, but that fear was the hardest thing to get over. Every time I ran the bases I always thought what if a ball comes out of no where and breaks my jaw again, or what if when I am bunting the ball it comes back into my helment and breaks my jaw. Even though there was a one and a million chances of having it happen again, I still thought that it would happen. It took me over two months before I felt confident in myself that I was not going to get hit with the ball again . Once I got over the fear of  by getting hit by that ball, I knew that this experince would make me a better softball player over all. Even if I went through the fear of breaking my jaw again.