Any chance you would share those drills? I've had a hard time finding explosion/speed drills.
thanks.
Sure - I'm absolutely no guru. We do much of this in the gym because we tryout before Christmas break and start the week they return from Christmas break (gives those that don't make team a couple of weeks to get over it) so we usually have primarily indoor practices Jan/Feb.
I started using Marc's dynamic warm-ups as well. Examples of speed drills:
high knees down - lunge back; donkey kicks down - lung back; cross overs down - lunge back; bear crawls down lunge back; high knee skips down - lunge back; back peddle down - sprint back; Everything is always at least 25 - 40 yds. As you can see, I'm a big fan of lunges - a softball player's best friend in my opinion. We use a parachute to break up things. Also, once we get outside we pull a tire (use harness), run the football players' ropes, tires and push the sleds on occasion. I might add we are careful about warm up and stretching - especially in Winter.