Base running

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Looks like Jessica Mendoza uses either foot......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfAPT6T6aRc

Len

 

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I wonder if SBFamily wasnt calling right foot the inside foot. I take it as that because technically it is the inside foot between the bag and the other foot...Make sense to everyone. I agree with the fact of not teaching a foot at all. Just hit the inside corner in stride...

 

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No the high school coach wanted them to use the left foot. DD had been taught hit inside corner and don't break your stride. Thanks Len on the post. I agree with Shayne, if a Kid is already at 11.8, it is over coaching. Why yell at them , for something like this. We have more important things to work on at the high school level.

 

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No the high school coach wanted them to use the left foot. DD had been taught hit inside corner and don't break your stride. Thanks Len on the post. I agree with Shayne, if a Kid is already at 11.8, it is over coaching. Why yell at them , for something like this. We have more important things to work on at the high school level.

Could it be that college coaches are teaching inside foot and your HS coach is teaching them that way for future play?

 

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Back in my playing days, when I was lean, mobile and agile, I experimented with using my right foot and left foot when making the turn at first for second. Keeping in mind the way motorcycle racers lean into turns, I tried to do the same. I found that by leaning into the turn, hitting the inside corner with my left foot allowed me to make the turn faster and carry more speed through the turn. However, it depended on the field conditions and whether the bases were firmly in place for it to work.

 

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Back in my playing days, when I was lean, mobile and agile, I experimented with using my right foot and left foot when making the turn at first for second. Keeping in mind the way motorcycle racers lean into turns, I tried to do the same. I found that by leaning into the turn, hitting the inside corner with my left foot allowed me to make the turn faster and carry more speed through the turn. However, it depended on the field conditions and whether the bases were firmly in place for it to work.

I noticed the exact opposite. Before hitting the base, I had a much easier time changing direction with my outside foot while leaning into the turn. Whatever foot was in line to hit the base did indeed hit the base, but I preferred the outside foot. Hitting the base with the outside foot always put me more in line to the next base.


Len

 

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inside corner of the bag,, and i teach right foot