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This is the slides drill for catchers. The purpose of this drill is to train the catcher to block the ball that is left of home and right of home plate. Replace your feet with your knees after your slide and to angle yourself to where the ball bounces back towards home plate.
It's a great drill as you do it. The direction you are going, really throw that foot out. Throw your right foot out when you move to the right and drag in and slide. Develop enough momentum that the trail side comes around with it. It's a good drill to mix intend to 15 repetitions each direction; 15 to the left, 15 to the right. It's good to rotate them as you see the catcher doing. Look where the angle of her helmet is down to her waist. It is a nice 45 degree angle up over the ball. You do not sit down on your heels. You do not sit down on your calves as you go around. You stay up so that it helps you get up over the top of the ball.
You can stand out 10 to 15 feet in front of your catcher and make them learn to practice blocking the ball. One of the keys to blocking catchers is you want it to be your instinct. You do not want to your instinct to be to use your glove on a ball in the dirt. You need to make your instinctive response that of using the equipments you are wearing and blocking the ball.
Yet another variation of this drill is after they have blocked the ball, obviously, at times the ball is going to kick out, kick backwards home, you need to learn to get up, retrieve the ball, so that you can make your throws. So this means that the catcher after she has blocked the ball needs to come up full speed, retrieve the ball, and make her throw to the necessary base. In this instance she will just throw it back to me.
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