Posted by: Thorpe Facer (tfacer@yahoo.com) on Wed Mar 12 19:17:55 2003

I have a player on my school team that again is
> stepping in the bucket on her stride. I experienced this last year and to combat it we
> widen her stance (no stride) for all hitting drills. It seemed to help. I get her back after a summer and fall of ball and she is doing it again. Does anyone have any drills or suggestions to cure this? She has gone back to a more narrow stance and is taking a huge stride, (something else for me to work on).

I believe that stepping into the bucket is caused by only two reasons: First, fear of the ball. You don't mention that so I won't address it. Second, poor balance in the stance, specifically, too much weight on the heels. A player with too much weight on the heels has to step in the bucket to keep balance upon striding. Check her balance.