How to do the Figure 4

Here is the ending. At snap, I have got resistance, I have got my weight back, my drag toe is still on the dirt out snapped and now I kick. Okay we call this the figure 4. People have different look in endings; to me this is the most aggressive. What are we doing, we take in the big muscles on our legs and driving them together, driving them together. We call this the figure 4 because hold the 4 position; you have got the foot at the back and the knee on this side.

You don't want to see a gap between their knees because now that's not bringing the quads together. You also don't want to see the feet crossed, because that's very un-athletic looking and it's got the hips turning the wrong way. So let's do pretty once. Let's point our knee at a 45 degree angle, 45 degree, very good and do it again kick, alright. And this knee pointing in that direction is the 45 degree angle. Alright feet apart.

Toe drags down the power line on the side of the toe until we kick, alright, that's straight from Michele Smith's video and I loved that when I heard it. Her hips are wide open when she is flying to the air. What did they do? Kick boom! hips come to a 45 degree angle, back in my day, when I came through, they all thought, slam the door shut, that is not what our lead pitchers do that all, so please do not be doing that.

Let's do it again, it's very natural and they studied all the Olympians in 1996, everyone's hips were open 45-52 degrees at release. Alright, 45 legs are at 45 belly buttons are at 45. Now what do you do? I just place the foot under me. Okay let's kick. Put it under here. There we go, we do not force fielding position on kids because it swings her hips around and often makes them fall off balance to the throwing arm side. Let's kick foot under us; we have got energy, now we can go field anything that the hitter got lucky enough to touch.


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