Indoor facilities are nice. But you can't beat 365 days of outdoor training found in the South East. With the exception of Christmas and New Years weekend we have multiple tournaments every weekend.
Indoor facilities are nice. But you can't beat 365 days of outdoor training found in the South East. With the exception of Christmas and New Years weekend we have multiple tournaments every weekend.
I see, rubbing it in. I guess I have to admit softball is funner when sunny. But our girls get to practice throwing skills with snow ball fights, and get to strengthen their backs with shoveling snow, and dont get distracted by being next to beautiful beaches.
Always wondered why I never moved out of the midwest? Our indoor facilities might close the gap, but we'll never catch up.
It depends on the type of competition. The well-run pre-HS-age teams out here make good use of the year-around weather by spreading out the tournaments and having a couple weekends a month with a 4-hour practice on Sat and a 3-game friendly on Sunday. We don't have MS ball here, so the teams play the entire year and pace themselves by focusing on development for most of it. The monthly tourneys serve as progress tests.Truth be known there is a down side to year round competition. Sometimes we tend to spend too much time in competition and not enough time working on basics. ...