How to Play Baseball: Linear/Lateral Run & Slide

Here we want to work on our balance and body control for changing the direction.

Start with linear runs by sticking and holding your landing with each leg. Come out, stick and hold with the right. Go back, stick and hold with the left. This helps the athletes to understand how to stop their body, get it under control, you got to have control of the body before you can change direction and be explosive.

Now let us go right into a linear run into a back pedal.

Push away from the direction you want to go. Run forward, plant, explode straight back. Balance by using each leg equally. Jog backwards, stick and hold your landing. Stop the body from going one direction. Balance out and use both feet equally. Come down with the right, then the left. Switch, back pedal, stick and stop your landing. Get the body under control. Switch, use the other leg. Now let us go right from the back pedal, plant the foot, and break forward into a sprint. Teach the body how you want it to stop and respond. Get it under control.

Now let us go to our lateral slide. Start with stick and hold the landing, slide across, stick and hold. Get control of the body. Stop your momentum from going one direction so we can change and get it to go the other.

Now let us go right in to straight lateral slide with changing direction going side to side. Down and back is one repetition. Do three sets of three repetitions.


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