Swing Mechanics - The Timing Stride

TIMING STRIDE

This baseball swing mechanic, or softball swing mechanic,  is the movement of the front foot towards the pitcher or just a “lift” of the front foot depending on what you do individually.

1.     Length of the stride is directly related to how your base is in the pre-pitch position. (see base)

2.    Front foot must be down early or at the latest, on time … never late.

3.    The front foot should be down around the time the pitch is about ½ ways to plate.

4.   One major fault with many hitters is that they don’t get their whole foot down

       early enough or not at all. Coach speak calls getting the whole foot down, “heel plant”, because some           just land on their toe. Make sure the whole foot gets down early.

TIP: There are several different “triggers”… Chipper Jones uses a toe tap, A-Rod picks his knee up almost to his waist, and Albert Pujols just rolls up on his front toe.  These are some of the differences hitters possess. 

What is important is that each hitter has a trigger that sets the swing in motion, at the right time.