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Lesson 8:
The New School Lead in Baseball
This lesson focuses on the "new school lead" technique used by base stealers to gain an advantage over pitchers. It explores key strategies such as timing movements with pitchers' actions, running on the pitcher’s movement, and exploiting the pitcher’s glove hand to force inaccurate throws. The lesson emphasizes the importance of mastering footwork, movement efficiency, and timing to improve base-stealing success, with a practical demonstration of the technique's effectiveness in real game scenarios.
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In this session, Coach Brian Femi emphasizes the importance of smart base running to create scoring opportunities, especially for teams that may not have the strongest players. He introduces the “advance, be late” strategy, which ensures baserunners avoid leaving early and being called out by umpires. He also discusses the challenges of dealing with poor outfield arms and how third base coaches...
