How to slide in baseball

Now it's time to teach sliding. You have to teach early in the year just so nobody has heard again. We always start out with our players in socks or in snickers, so if they don't catch a cleat or sprain an ankle or anything like that we always have a removal base or a sliding base, so in case they happened to slide too late, they don't jam their ankle. So first time we just want to protect them.

First thing we ask them to do is they are going to take a short run and slide into the base. When they slide into the base, we want them to understand that they want to be in this position right here. They want their one leg out, other leg underneath and their hands up sliding on their butt. Too often players lean forward and dig their knee into the ground and their heel into the ground, something like that which can always cause an injury.

The other thing they do is they slide and put their hand down, and we have had players break thumbs and fingers and all that kind of thing because they put their hand banging on the hard ground. So we are trying to remind them to get their hands up as they slide.

So we just line them up and they just slide into the base. Here we go. Nice slide right there. Next guy. Here he goes, we emphasize hands up. Right there, good slide, and just practice it.


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