I went to a coaching clinic the other day. I really didn't need to go, it was only a 2 hour clinic that was run by a local baseball school. I was looking for reinforcement of thing I have learned and maybe to hear thing I have forgotten. The instructor was an ex professional ball player from the area. He was talking about taking a stride step, which I don't teach unless the child is already using one. He insisted that you generate power from it. Everything I was taught always tell me it is rotation and not the step, which I believe is to be use for timing, that generates power. He insisted that you can get a good amount of power from a step and a no stride style looses power. I am interested In finding out what the forum thinks.