Exercises for teaching the leap to softball pitchers

Abstract

Abstract

The topic approached in this investigation is selected because in the year 2010 in the manual of rules and arbitrations of the International Federation Softball, the leap is approved in the pitched, being this an advantage that have the pitchers, and up to now in its great majority so much at national level as specifically in Santiago from Cuba, it is not applied in the technique of rushing. For what is formulated as scientific problem: How to teach the leap in the pitchers of Softball of the category 13-15 years of the Unique Center of Santiago from Cuba? is it pursued as objective: to elaborate exercises that contribute to the teaching of the leap and it is identified like study object: the process of technical preparation of rushing in the feminine Softball. To develop this investigation, theoretical, empiric methods were used. Test was applied for the diagnostics and for the control, what allowed guiding the technical preparation. When analyzing the results reached by the athletes you began to observe a great development in the technique of rushing, this improvement is also observed reflected in the positive results obtained by them in the second carried out test, which was carried out to check the effectiveness of the proposal. We can also appreciate that the proposal allows solving the problems detected with regard to the technique of to rush and to go together with the technical scientific development of the Softball.