Category Archives: Softball

Quality Fund Raiser Item

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Are you looking for an item you can sell as a fundraiser but you are sick of selling junk food and items that are tacky.  Then you should look into the custom logo locker room stools.  

Custom logo locker room stools are not only classy but will last for a long time.  These stools are compact and comfortable.  They have a padded seat top that features a durable vinyl cover. The stools frame is made of heavy duty steel for long lasting value.  The stools also fold compact for easy storage.  They are available in 11 frame colors and 9 vinyl colors giving you a wide variety of color combinations to create any combination you like.

Since these are custom stools you can get your school logo or mascot printed on them. If you have a club or some other logo you want to use no problem.  You can do up to a four color logo on these stools so pick whatever you want the sky is the limit.  The custom stools will make a great souvenir that can be used in the homes of the people that buy them.  These locker rooms stools would make a great addition to a fathers garage or a grandmothers sewing room.  They will remind buyers of their family member who was in a specific sports program or a club for years to come. Chess club could do a fund raiser with these awesome stools.  I can see a nice black knight chess club logo in my head already. Just think of all the different areas these stools could be used.  I think people would rather get something useful and memorable when purchasing a fund raiser item,don’t you?  These stools are just that item.  They look awesome and are durable as well.

Before you sign up with some people that tell you to sell junk food to raise funds look into the custom locker room stools to sell.  Go to morleyathletic.com and check out the stools and the helpful video that is offered.  Why sell people who are donating to your program junk food, when you can sell them a high quality memorable custom stool that instills pride in your organization.

Practice Like a Warrior

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Soldiers in every country train for battles.  Sports players practice for games.  What they do is very different but the reason they do it is not.  There are psychological and physical benefits to practicing for situations of high stress like battles and games.  Psychologically we train to build confidence under pressure.  We also train so that we become offensive and head into battle rather than shrink from it.  While sports are less life threatening than battles the same principles apply.  A football scrimmage with other team mates will help you mentally prepare for a game with an opposing team. 

But the real benefit of practicing is the physical side.  You can have all the confidence in the world but if you can’t get the ball in the goal you do not have a chance.  Muscle memory is where the big advantages come in.  Doing a task a few thousand times will help get it ingrained into your muscle and into your brain. Shoot a layup 2000 times and you will be able to do it like clockwork.  The greats of the greats like Michael Jordan spent a lot of extra time on the basketball court practicing.  He was out on the court after everybody left and this simple fact made him possibly the greatest basketball player of all time.  Once you do something enough it almost becomes an instinct.  Soldiers practice shooting, rushing bunkers, and jumping out of planes.  They do this so that when they go to battle they will have that instinct and the edge over the enemy.

The more you practice the better off you will be.  You do want to make sure that you train or practice the correct way as well because if you do it wrong 2000 times you will not have the advantage but a great disadvantage.

I would suggest checking out some coaching videos that will help you learn how to practice the right way.  You can find hundreds of them at www.morleyathletic.com.  There are videos on baseball, basketball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

Morelyathletic.com also has the equipment you need to practice with.  Get the gear and the info and start practicing like a warrior today.

Get In Shape For Summer Sports!

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If you play sports all year long you may be in pretty good shape but you may not be in shirtless shape.  Are you in shape for the shirts against skins games?  Who knows who will be watching from the sidelines!  If not it’s time to start working on that as the summer is about to heat up. 

When it comes to finding the right ways to lose that extra chub all it takes is a little extra effort.  An effective way of exercising is interval training.  This is pretty much a period of hard exercise followed by a period of rest.  There are many other articles out there that will get you the specifics on interval training.  I just want to give you some ideas on the exercise equipment that will help you get it done.

A basic item that has been used for years in training boxers and martial artists is the jump rope.  You’re laughing…?  When was the last time you tried jumping rope?  It is a simple cheap device that can get your heart pumping to the max.  Do a 5-10 minute interval training exercise with the jump rope and you will begin to respect it.  You can also get weighted jump ropes to help work out your arms.

Another basic item for interval training and working abs is the medicine ball.  The medicine ball has many variations these days but they all serve the same purpose.  They allow you to use a lot of the small stabilizer muscles in your body.  This will help tighten your abs and the rest of your body while making you more agile on the field.  Medicine balls are also great to use with a partner!

You can also use an agility ladder in your interval training program.  Your sports program may already use this but working it into an interval training program will get you results.  It will help your agility and increase your fat burning capacity.

One item that is required with any interval training is a stopwatch.  You can get a regular stopwatch, a table timer, or the jumbo wrist stopwatch.  The jumbo wrist stopwatch comes with a wrist strap, a lanyard, and a clipboard clip.  I would recommend the jumbo wrist stopwatch just because of its versatility.

So whether your in shape for the shirtless games or not it would be a good idea to try some interval training.  Summer is right around the corner and you don’t want to be one of the players with a shirt on when its 100 degrees out.

For more information and pricing on fitness items that will help you lose some flab go to www.morelyathletic.com.

REPLACE OR REPAIR- THE ANSWER SEEMS EASY BUT IS IT?

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Spring is upon us and many coaches are finding that their equipment coming out of storage is no longer up to the job at hand.  Fortunately not all equipment has to be completely replaced when damaged.  Replacement parts and repair may be a possible solution that will save your budget big time.  What every person in charge of purchasing equipment needs to know is that the decision to replace or repair is actually made during the original equipment purchase.

Let’s take protective screens used to practice baseball and softball as an example.  Fungo screens and pitchers protective screens utilize heavy duty netting to protect players from the ball.  While this netting can be quite durable there will undoubtedly come a day when it starts to fall apart.  While the cheapest solution may be to simply buy a new net there may not be a replacement readily available.  Many of the least expensive screens have no replacement nets.  So the decision to not replace the net was actually made when the screen was originally purchased.  Making sure replacement parts are available for the equipment items you purchase should be at the top of the list of features for all equipment items. 

With budgets shrinking every year and sports programs growing there is a definite need to repair items rather than buy new ones.  While merchandise with available replacement parts may be a bit more expensive when it comes to the initial investment being able to buy parts, such as replacement nets, can outweigh that initial cost by far.  A good quality pitching L-Screen features a durable metal frame that should last for years when used correctly.  An example would be a Louisville Pitching Frame that features 1.5” diameter tubing for construction.  The initial purchase will be around $150.00 delivered.  Then if needed you can get yourself a replacement net for under $50 in the years to come.

There is a bit of a warning with this notion however.  Manufacturers do change products making it difficult with some to determine if replacement parts will be around for long.  In the case of an L-Screen you may want to purchase a replacement net with your initial order.  You will have it on hand for future use adding immediate longevity to the equipment purchase. 

Often times expensive equipment items can be repaired rather than replaced.  Replacement parts available for items such as batting cages, pitching machines, high end field lining machines, swimming lane lines and more.  Next time you get ready to purchase a big ticket equipment item ask yourself if being able to repair the unit is important to you.  You’ll find a full selection of high quality items with replacement parts available at www.morleyathletic.com, browse the online team catalog today.

A Portable Outdoor Scoreboard You Can Depend On

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There have been a handful of affordable indoor/outdoor scoreboards on the market most of which have all been taken off the market over the years.  It would seem that making an affordable outdoor, multi-sport scoreboard is very difficult.  Indoor portable scoreboards are nothing new and you can find quite a few styles priced under $1000.  That’s great news for basketball and volleyball teams across the country but what about the baseball, lacrosse, soccer and football teams.

There are two important features that make an outdoor portable scoreboard so different.  The first is water resistance.  If your scoreboard can’t get wet it’s not going to last long outside.  The second feature is being able to read the display from a distance in sunlight.  Outdoor lighting conditions are much different than indoor lights and outdoor scoreboard require a different type of display to offer a crisp display that can be viewed form a difference.

BEFOUR SS5000 MORLEY ATHLETICThe Befour Indoor/ Outdoor Scoreboard is an excellent value.  It’s small size of only  28” x 20” x 3” and weight of under 20 lbs make it very portable.  Day-bright led digits are easily readable from all over the field, even in direct sunlight!  Wireless remote control is included allowing you to control the scoreboard from a distance of up to 300 feet. 

This scoreboard can be used for most sports as well as to count up or down times,  It has a very loud horn, outstanding 300 foot visibility range outdoors and is made of aircraft grade aluminum with a Lexan® face for extreme durability.

To control the totally wireless system, the radio remote is easy to use and small enough to fit into a shirt pocket. With a 300 ft range, an official on the field can keep time and score as easily as a spectator on the sidelines. Each system has a dedicated radio channel that prevents interference from other scoring systems. Operation is intuitive, so formal training is not necessary.

So if you need an affordable indoor/outdoor portable scoreboard you have found what you were looking for.  The price tag is under $2000 making it an affordable investment considering it is built to last.  Learn more about this high quality indoor/outdoor scoreboard and buy yours today at www.morleyathletic.com.