Process Essay: How To Play Softball

Any sport takes time to master, you must understand the general concept of the game, but more importantly how to actually take part and play in the game. You can not just learn one part you need to learn all parts of the game. I know exactly what this process is like. Softball is a game that has many skills you must come close to perfecting if you want to be successful. The time and patience it takes can be frustrating, but will always pay off in the end.
Before you can take part in playing the game, everyone has to learn how to game is played in general and what the point is. From a young age, I learned how softball was played, I would go to my sister’s games and watch it on T.V. Once you have got a good idea in mind of what goes on, you …show more content…
Each position has different concepts and responsibilities. My main positions were pitcher and first base, but I have helped out and played other positions as well because I had learned the skills.
When being an infielder you need to be quick and on high alert and also have good communication, everyone on the field needs to be communicating with one another so everyone knows what is going on. You must be quick on your feet to get to the ball and always be ready because you never know what direction the ball is going to go in. Hand eye coordination is also key as an infielder, getting the ball and knowing were it needs to go as soon as you get it is important in any position.
Next I took on the role of learning the skills of the outfield. For sometime in my softball career I played left field and occasionally right filed. One key thing to being an outfielder is having a very strong throwing arm, as well as being good with your feet you. When learning outfield, I had to have a good throwing arm, which I got better at with practice. Also foot work is important, the way I learned you don’t always have time to plant your feet so my coach taught us a “running hop throw” as he would call