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Softball Sliding - Learning the Head First Slide
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I find that we don't spend enough time teaching and learning softball sliding techniques. There are a variety of softball sliding techniques: bent-leg, pop-up, hook, around the bag, and head first just to name the most common.
Now, I've been under the assumption that the head first slide was a tough slide to teach and only the "naturals" could do it. This past spring, I got my eyes opened by Dalton Ruer, a clinician in Atlanta. This guy can teach head first slide to any player in 5 minutes literally.
I realized that I had these false assumptions all these years about girls not really being keen or good at head first sliding. I tried it with a few players later this past summer and it is not that hard to teach actually. Most softball players can pick it up relatively easily with the right instruction.
Here's a quick video on how to do it:
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