Thread: Joe Brinkman
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Old Fri Aug 27, 2004, 05:14pm
mrm21711 mrm21711 is offline
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Looks like they used my question I sent in

I noticed you always used the knee stance up until this year. Why did you make the switch? (Mark)

Using the knee stance puts quite a bit of pressure on the kneecap and all those years of using the stance were starting to catch up with me physically. Coming up into the “box” stance has been great for me. Of course, I’ve used the stance before, having trained many umpires to work that way. The main thing isn’t really what the legs are doing, but that the body has positioned the eyes to see the pitch well. That’s why you’ll see different stances. Different people will find their “comfort zone” in different ways.

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