It all started on a wednesday morning it was a good day at school there isn’t to much talk about. So when school ended i rode the bus home like usual I got dressed up and went to football practice. When I got there i got a strange feeling like if my gut was trying to tell me something so I ignored it and to the locker room and i just remembered that it was going to be the first day of full pads so i put on my pads nervously put them on and bamm I walked out and went to the practice field. So…
Sports are fun to play. I am a natural sportsperson. Whenever I go outside, I look for friends to play sporting games so I have a lot of practice with all sports. But, it I am given a choice, I would have to say that softball is my favorite sport. I like softball because it helps me stay active, it keeps me alert and it is fun. I love to get up early in the morning and play a game of softball. It gives me a chance to move about the field in every direction just by hitting that small yellow…
Leeman Bennett once said, “A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that God has given them. That requires someone who believes in himself or herself, who will make self-sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability” (“Running”). This is the mind set of every great softball player, and in order to have this mind set, players must acknowledge and appreciate the…
Scars During the summer of seventh grade I broke my hand. I was at the high school's soccer camp and we were playing a game called hunters and rabbits. One team was the hunters, and the other were the rabbits. I was a rabbit. The hunters would shoot balls at the rabbits as they ran across the field. When a rabbit got hit they would join the hunters. I had made it through the first few rounds, but now there were even more hunters, and I was losing confidence in myself. Sure enough as I ran across…
Boom, There I was ball in my hand with 0.5 seconds left on the clock. I dribble the ball once then pulled up for the three pointer swish nothing but net. The crowd goes crazy and everyone ran on the court. There undefended streak is over. The team named me as the player of the game. I had 23 points, five assist and 10 rebounds. The best game I ever had it was also a rival games to so the stands where full of people cheering on my schools basketball team. After the game coach named me player of…
There is simply something around a knocking down some pins rear way. The sights, sounds, and smells simply appear to affect a feeling of uncorrupt eagerness and energy in individuals of all ages, which is uplifted for kids. What's more, for the more seasoned, more experienced bowler, it just feels great to instruct a tyke about knocking down some pins for that first time. The main thing to consider before that youngster grabs a knocking down some pins ball, is the thing that to wear to the…
difference between softball and baseball is ,baseball consists of nine innings, while softball consists of seven innings. Baseball has one and only one classification ,and the game is played the same way all over the world. Softball is classified into fast-pitch and slow-pitch which are both different from baseball. Softball and baseball are related, in fact softball originated from baseball; however these two sports are still very different. The difference between baseball and softball…
In the reading, Difficult Conversations, the authors discussed how sometimes it is difficult to have a conversation that could potentially affect your identity or what others think of you (Stone, Patton, & Heen, 2010). Everyone struggles with their identity and the desire to perfect it to exactly how they want it or how they want others to see it. For me, I have played softball my whole life, from tee ball to high school ball it was always a hobby of mine. I played travel softball too and spent…
gloves apart from the others. Is There Really a Difference? When you compare baseball gloves to softball gloves there is a huge difference. It all centers on the size and depth of the pocket and the size of the player’s hand using them. The physics behind these differences is easy to apply. There are two main reasons that a fastpitch softball glove is what you need to make that great catch. Size Matters A baseball has a 9-inch circumference and a fastpitch softball is 12-inches. You need a…
kinematic study involving 21 collegiate baseball pitchers that the change-up pitch is the least stressful, while the curveball and fastball have similar elbow and shoulder kinetics, with the curveball exhibiting increased forearm supination and radial to ulnar wrist motion(40, 41). The authors concluded that no obvious source of injury could be identified from kinematic comparisons between pitches alone. However, a larger prospective cohort study of young baseball players of average age of…