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Male: As I tell outfielders or any position on the infield. Anytime that you take a step more than you need to in order to get the ball out of your glove or to do whatever this you have to do. You are given the base runner two steps. Two steps to a base runner especially at the high school level, it creates to at least six feet and boy, that is something that you do to want to do.
Male: How many places you see at first base to a closer than six feet?
Male: The first chore we are going to do is what we call chop steps. This is our effort to make sure that the kids technique right, left, backward, at an angle is always good and always what we need. We do not want any extra steps because when the balls hard hit, it is to the right or to the left, we got to get turn and get there in a hurry. So, Mark is going to head him through the chop steps and I will come in as they get going. Go ahead coach.
Coach: Creep. Chop.
Male: Notice how they move their feet, now they are into the breakdown position. The nice back in.
Coach: Creep. Chop.
Male: Now, they are going to the cross-over step and get in the nice breakdown position making sure that the head down watching the ball in.
Coach: Good.
Male: They come back, you can do this with any number of players that you have, whether it is 4 or 8 or 10 or how many you can.
Coach: Creep. Chop.
Male: Now, we got a ball a little deeper in the holder and we are going to take an angle on it.
Coach: Good.
Male: Notice how their heads are down. There gloves open and want to make sure we followed the good technique rules on our backhand.
Coach: Creep. Chop. Good.
Male: See, how they set up with at the same at the time. Foot works always the same, even though we got some different age groups kids. They are still setting up at the same time.
Coach: Creep. Chop. Good.
Male: Charge the ball. We are run through to these five rotation. To the right, to the left, backward angle, right backward angle, left, and then forward for the ball is common right at us. That your chop step drill, we start at each practice with it for it is just a couple of minutes a day, boy. It is a good reminder for kids and how they are supposed to move to the ball.
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