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Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast
Everything Fastpitch is a podcast hosted by Coach Tory Acheson and Coach Don McKinlay. Tory and Don are former college coaches that are now full time instructors and travel ball coaches. Since retiring form active collegiate coaching they have committed themselves to providing educational materials to the fastpitch community. This podcast is one of the resources they are providing. Their website has 500+ blog posts and they have a YouTube channel. All of these cover fastpitch softball from coaching and training beginner athletes up through college athletes. It is a great resource for players, parents and coaches. Whether it be training tips, mental aspects, coaching methods, recruiting etc. it is all covered, hence the name Everything Fastpitch.
Everything Fastpitch - The Podcast
Brewers make it / Player Union / Insights with Tori Heyman / Sign Systems
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Coach Tori and Coach Don preview episode 443, cover warm-up items including Tori's Milwaukee Brewers reaching their first World Series since 1982 and a documentary about the 1982 team. The City of the Week is Gainesville, Florida, linked to strong softball activity and tournaments. A listener asks about AUSL players forming a union; the hosts discuss potential benefits for players and possible risks to a new league’s growth, hoping it doesn’t lead to labor disruptions. In the main interview, former Louisville All-American pitcher Tori Heyman discusses her playing and coaching background, parents’ body language effects, supportive coaching with high standards, embracing failure, focusing on process over outcome, pitching adjustments one priority at a time, handling embarrassment through confident body language, and what being coachable really means. The coaching tip addresses pros and cons of hand signals, wristbands, and direct communication sign systems.