We teach the cross over step bunt that most college coaches now teach. I like this with younger girls, since they have a problem with stepping on the plate or fouling balls off the plate. This cannot happen with the cross over bunt step.
Just did a coaching clinic with Michele Smith and even she said her pitches moved just in front of the plate.
Every year while watching the WCWS I hear her parroting stale advice that no longer is true-but sounds good. This year during one of the breaks, she did a demonstration on, I think it was, how to hit the inside pitch. It didn't hold water for me and at like the next commercial break they ran one of those Home Depot 60 Second Clinics with Jessica Mendoza demonstrating the same thing EXCEPT what she said made sense. It seemed like they realized that first demo left people scratching their heads so they needed to issue a correction right away.Michelle is a very accomplished pitcher ... and while she loves to quote a lot of good information, she still hasn't shaken such concepts.