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Fundamental Movement Skill:  Two-Handed  S trike Sport:   Softball Age level:  Stage 1 (year 2)

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Hitting a medium sized ball off the top a witches hat with a pool noodle. In pairs, take turns of striking the ball while the other fetches the ball and places it back on the cone.

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Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart in line with the cone. Put your hands together on the pool noodle! Keep your eyes on the ball!

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Can you see how my hands are together on the bat.

Watch where my eyes are looking throughout the strike.

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Where should my feet be? What should I be focusing my eyes on? Where should my hands be on the bat?

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Progressing to the next stage of the two-handed strike, we will be hitting a smaller sized tennis ball off of a t-ball tee with a soft bat. Groups of 3  Try to hit the ball over the line!

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This activity is similar to the first, but a little more complex, to further develop your technique.

The ball is smaller, the bat is slightly heavier and the base will be a t-ball batting tee.

Step onto the front foot, shifting weight from the back foot onto the front.

Swing the bat back behind your head and then swing it around so after you the hit the ball, the bat swings behind your body.

to hit the ball as hard as you can so it crosses the 5 metre line!

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Now let’s use the two-handed strike to play a modified game of softball- slam it!

TWO-HANDED STRIKE: SOFTBALL

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