Drive foot placement

I've always taught my daughter to place her drive foot on the rubber with the ball of her drive foot just on the edge. This allows her to push off the rubber with the ball of her foot (toes). I am seeing a lot of pitchers these days with only the heel of the drive foot touching the rubber (not on it). When they rock back they lift the drive toe and then rock through the drive foot. Essentially ending up driving off the dirt in front of the rubber (the length of their foot).

I was just wondering what the opinions were on these two different methods. It seems like the second way might generate more momentum, like a walk through almost. However, if you're pitching from a rubber that has a hole dug out in front of it (which happens a lot), you might be driving out of a hole.

The 2nd one will put you alittle closer to the plate. Other than that, not sure of an advantage. Think some rule sets allow one or the other, not sure about that though.

Good question. Been seeing that a lot and was wondering the same thing. Probably a pitcher preference.

In theory the wider gap between your feet (taking advantage of the full width of the pitching rubber) allows for a more powerful push.

Hillhouse teaches that foot placement.

DD's drive foot is in frount of the plate like you are describing in 2.

The trench you are talking about is only a few inches and built artificial with they P "preparing" the circle.

I think whether they know it or not the pitcher is trying to screw up the other P.

Any videos available to show the foot placement #2? Did some searching on YouTube didn't find anything

I did a quick look through the model pitchers thread, most are placement #2.

quincy said:

I did a quick look through the model pitchers thread, most are placement #2.

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Forgot about that thread thanks for the reminder will check it out!

If you see a video of DD, you are in the wrong thread.