Stride Length Problem | Talk Pitching | TopVelocity Baseball Forum

I’m no expert on this, but I believe that there could be a few reasons for this case.

1. Poor strength base – you need to be able to handle all the weight that lands onto your lead leg. If it can’t it will try and shorten the stride because less strength is needed to support the speed and momentum falling onto the leg.

2. Imbalance with leg strength – similar to the first, you could have imbalance with leg strength and your back leg could be much stronger than the lead leg, creating the speed and momentum, but landing with a short stride. This is very unusual and the same thing happens that it will shorten because of the lack of strength.

3. False start – you may be leading with the hips at the start, but it may slow down instead of speed up during the delivery. The peak speed is not at release. The back leg may stall and slow down, meaning you’re not generating momentum from the start of the delivery.

The most common would be 1 as many people cannot support up to 1.5 of their bodyweight on the leg. Try getting as low as possible, getting the force vector as lined up as possible. This makes the lead leg have to reach out further so that it doesn’t flex. Unless, if you land with the leg flexed, all you need to do is to reach out so that your foot is past your knees. I’ll leave it up to Brent, I may somewhat be making things up here, just spouting random things.