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Originally Posted by RKBUmp
Every rule set except NFHS moved away from the step back years and years ago, why in the world would USA move back to it??????
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USA technically never 'moved away' from the step back. That has been the men's rule for as long as I've been around (circa 1997). I think this is just a matter of not writing two separate preliminaries for genders. And to my knowledge, NFHS has not required two feet on (well, since 2000).
NCAA made the change this year for only one foot on, but they adopted the WBSC rule for preliminaries on the feet. That includes no step back once the feet are set.
But since the USA Male rule is the same as NFHS (in totality since 2016, once NFHS allowed the step back once the hand came together), USA just opened the preliminaries to all fast pitch.
It really isn't that big of a deal.
Now the big deal is when NCAA (and NFHS, and USA Jo/females) allows leaping, which is legal in WBSC.