Don't wait for an opportunity to score-make your opportunities! This unique DVD combines two powerful elements for putting more runs on the board: Baserunning and the short game. George Wares shares the aggressive strategies that have been a big part of his 870+ career victories as a coach.

Aggressive baserunning can be the deciding factor in a close softball game. Coach Wares explains and demonstrates essential techniques and strategies at each base. He includes team drills to help you maximize practice time and improve the techniques--even if you have a small coaching staff. Also included are techniques for extra base hits and stealing situations.

Improve your baserunning with these essential techniques:

• Getting down the first base line - Reach first base faster by using these simple techniques.
• Rounding the bases - Take more extra bases this season with these aggressive strategies.
• Jumping off and getting back - Maximize your lead and make the defense pay for even small errors.
• Sliding head first - Eliminate the fear of diving and sliding head first with this simple drill progression.
• Aggressive vs conservative base running - Produce more scoring opportunities with these base running strategies.

In addition to making your players better base runners, Wares' coaching cue words and base coaching concepts will improve your coaching at the bases.

The second phase of Wares' aggressive offense is the short game. Wares gives you a thorough small-ball lesson covering bunting and slapping techniques and game strategies.

You'll learn:

• Three different styles of slapping footwork to maintain good balance and proper plate coverage
• Tips to stay on the ball as long as possible for sharper slap hits.
• How to read and react to the defense when you're slapping.
• How to power slap to take advantage of a drawn-in infield.
• Techniques to slap the outside pitch on a consistent basis.
• How to bunt for a base hit on a defense that is playing back.
• Drills to successfully execute a sacrifice bunt to advance runners.

By combining Wares' short game offense strategies with his aggressive base running techniques you can constantly pressure the defense to make difficult plays, increase the chances of defensive errors and improve your run totals.

Create more scoring opportunities for your team this season with this two-in-one DVD!

2010.

Good base runners with great instinct create more offense for their teammates.

Join Gary Gilmore, the head coach at Coastal Carolina University, as he leads you through the principles and methods of aggressive baserunning that will make anyone on your team a threat on the base paths.

Gilmore takes you through a base-by-base breakdown of everything necessary to be productive on the bases. He starts in the batter's box, concentrating on how to find the ball coming out of the box. This gives your runners an advantage to maximize speed and puts pressure on the infield to make the play. He includes two drills to help your team stretch singles to doubles.

Once on base, Coastal Carolina strives for an 85% success rate on steals. Gilmore passes along the important reads to look for to get a great jump versus right- or left-handed pitchers. He also shows you the keys to safe, yet effective primary and secondary leads. Gilmore touches on fake steals and how to disrupt the pitcher and catcher's rhythm, which will not only lead to more successful steals, but better pitches to hit.

Gilmore also demonstrates the nuances on reads and leads when your runner reaches second. See how these techniques can open up the left side of the infield for your batters, force the pitcher to change his pitching strategy and make stealing third easier. He also covers tagging on fly balls to get in scoring position, fake steals and advancing on ground balls in detail.

Learn to score from third on ground balls, the suicide squeeze, tagging and stealing home.

With these techniques and philosophies, you will be able to put pressure on opposing teams and place your runners in situations to score at any time!

83 minutes. 2009.

Make baserunning instinctive for your players.

Randy Mazey's number one baserunning rule at TCU is: Know where the baseball is at all times. Throughout the DVD, Mazey demonstrates how your players can locate the baseball while effectively running the bases.

Train your players to get a feel for the bases using Mazey's drill progression for baserunning. This drill progression will help your players get a feel for the bases so that in game situations they can locate the baseball as they run the bases.

Take a tour of the bases as Mazey explains each base-to-base situation as a TCU athlete demonstrates the key points. Learn various base approaches, lead offs, and steals from each base as they relate to game situations. Watch frame-by-frame video analysis of a live scrimmage highlighting critical need-to-know techniques and concepts.

Increase your success on the base paths using Mazey's concepts on preparing for overthrows, watching the ball out of the pitcher's hand, how to slide and when to slide.

Need a great drill for baserunning practice? Mazey delivers a drill that encompasses every baserunning technique into one effective drill.

Baserunning can change the outcome of an inning, a game, or a season. Prepare your team for success on the base paths with this essential baserunning DVD.

87 minutes. 2010.

Coach Hibbs knows that baserunning is a major piece of maintaining a successful baseball program. The goal is to maximize on base opportunities by stretching an extra base out of many situations. He begins with instruction on running from home plate. The teaching point is to make the transition from hitter to base runner as quickly as possible. The dynamics of baserunning changes when the runner is on first base. Hibbs breaks down the strategies involved in running from first and teaches how to get to second and third base. The lead is also a crucial element in running from first and second. Many strategies are introduced for running from third base. Hibbs covers tag plays by examining many different running situations. Once around the bases, Hibbs concludes by taking a look at drills and game situations.

61 minutes. 2008.

The topic of baserunning is one of the most overlooked areas in teaching baseball. This DVD can help improve baserunning by working on it everyday in practice, starting at home plate. After contact, players must quickly get down the line to first base. Hitting balance will allow a good start down the base path. Thus, the simulated hitting drill should be worked on each day in practice to develop good habits. Turning at first, depending on where the ball is located, is a necessary skill taught in this presentation. Once at first, Stricklin focuses on the leadoff and getting good jumps. He demonstrates the tennis ball drill to help improve jumps when stealing second base. Techniques for executing the hit-and-run are explained with drill work. Stricklin teaches players how to run from first to third safely. Stricklin also teaches proper fundamentals on taking leads off second and third base. The baserunning essentials presented in this DVD add an element to your team that most lack. Proper execution of baserunning teaching points will equal more runs on the scoreboard!

42 minutes. 2006.