--- title: FungoMan Journal | Softball Coaching description: Softball Coaching | Find limitless innovation in the latest stories from FungoMan. Browse baseball and softball coaching and training articles, and get to know the people, places and innovations that drive the game forward. image: https://info.fungoman.com/hubfs/The%20Latest%20Stories.png --- [![FungoMan](https://info.fungoman.com/hs-fs/hubfs/name%20logo%20-%204-8-21.png?width=200&name=name%20logo%20-%204-8-21.png "FungoMan")](https://fungoman.com/)   # FUNGOMAN JOURNAL *Stories to inspire training.*   ### We’ve spent over 20 years challenging traditional ideas with innovative, training-intuitive platforms evolving our products, powering our design ethos, and celebrating our athletic community.   ## Feature Story [![Featured Story](https://info.fungoman.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Featured%20Story.png?width=1300&height=800&name=Featured%20Story.png "Featured Story")](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/assessing-natural-movement-vs.-one-size-fits-all-system) Department of FungoMan Archives ## Empowering Athletes and Those Who Train Them We built our technology from a dad's desire to empower his son with better training. Our latest articles honor ideas of the past and advance them in service of tomorrow's generation of athletes. [![Romy Cucjen - Coaching Article](https://info.fungoman.com/hubfs/Romy%20Cucjen%20-%20Coaching%20Article.png "Romy Cucjen - Coaching Article")](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss) [Coaching](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss) [5 Helpful Tactics Coaches To Use After a Loss with Romy Cucjen](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss) [FungoMan President, high school coach, and professional baseball player, Romy Cucjen shares his shortlist for handling a tough loss.](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss) [![Trent Mongero - Training Article](https://info.fungoman.com/hubfs/Trent%20Mongero%20-%20Training%20Article.png "Trent Mongero - Training Article")](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss) Training 7 Creative Infield Drills To Effectively Develop Players with Trent Mongero Winning Baseball fielding guru, ABCA Coach of the year, Trent Mongero shares infield drills you'll want to implement in your next practice. ![Jerry Manuel - Coaching](https://info.fungoman.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Jerry%20Manuel%20-%20Coaching%20Article.png?width=450&name=Jerry%20Manuel%20-%20Coaching%20Article.png "Jerry Manuel - Coaching") [Coaching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QxMOkDNj-g&t=380s) [Scouting Talent with Jerry Manuel](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/8-baseball-practice-secrets-for-the-coach-who-wins-championships-checklist) "The Sage" Jerry Manuel is former MLB Player, Manager, Coach, MLB Network Analyst, and CEO of the Jerry Manuel Foundation. He shares on scouting talent—seeing movement and rhythm. ### Behind the Scenes ## Let's Reimagine Practice Introducing FungoMan, our most significant training innovation. The platform revolutionizes traditional training methods by hacking exact line drives, ground balls, fly balls for the purpose of making a premium efficiency-minded product. It's time to games. But first, let's win practice. ### Latest Stories [![](https://info.fungoman.com/hubfs/Softball-FungoMan-FM250s.jpg)](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/fungoman-softball-nfca) ### [FungoMan meets the National Fastpitch Coaches Association](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/fungoman-softball-nfca) in [Softball](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/softball) on Dec 4, 2015 1:51:40 PM By [Camille D.C. Sutton](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton) [Leave a comment](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/fungoman-softball-nfca/#comments-listing) Whether you're in the market for coaching expertise, better equipment, or up-and-coming information on the sport, you might appreciate some of the things we're discovering at FungoMan LLC about the game we've recently tapped into. Around 14 years ago, FungoMan's inception began as a solution for baseball practice efficiency, but it wasn't until a few years ago that we saw a real opportunity to advance another sport with hopefully the same kind of impact -- fastpitch softball. Right now, we're manning the post at our first softball convention at the National Fastpitch Coaching Association Convention in Atlanta, GA, and the response to the technology and coaching empowerment movement that we so whole-heartedly believe in has been nothing short of encouraging. Read on for more on our first impressions of the softball community taken from tweets @NFCAorg and #FillYourBucket at the NFCA convention. [Read More](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/fungoman-softball-nfca) [![](https://info.fungoman.com/hubfs/Mike_Candrea_Better_People_to_Better_Players_A_Word_With_An_Olympic_Coach_FungoMan_Blog-101433-edited.jpg)](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/softball-legend-mike-candrea-coaching-strategies-olympics) ### [A Word with an Olympic Coach: Softball Legend Mike Candrea \[Video\]](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/softball-legend-mike-candrea-coaching-strategies-olympics) in [Coaching](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/coaching) on Nov 4, 2015 12:00:00 PM By [Camille D.C. Sutton](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton) [Leave a comment](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/softball-legend-mike-candrea-coaching-strategies-olympics/#comments-listing) With 1,500+ collegiate wins, 24 appearances in the NCAA College World Series, 8 NCAA National Championships, and Gold and Silver Olympic Medals under his belt, we think Coach Mike Candrea is pretty much golden through and through. And it's NOT just because he's a winner. Coach Candrea epitomizes what it means to be an excellent coach on the field and in life. [Read More](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/softball-legend-mike-candrea-coaching-strategies-olympics) [All posts](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/all) #### FUNGOMAN® TECHNOLOGY FEATURES THE ONLY PATENTED BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL SELF-FEEDING PITCHING AND FIELDING MACHINES IN THE WORLD. 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