Thu Jun 16, 2005, 08:59am
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In Memoriam
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Houghton, U.P., Michigan
Posts: 9,953
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Re: Re: Re: Re: GD Part Deux
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Originally posted by bob jenkins
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Originally posted by mick
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Originally posted by ChapJim
When I started using GD last summer, the extra-wide stance tore up adductors and hip flexors. I should have done more stretching before I started using GD. Should have but didn't. I narrowed my stance, which kept things from getting worse, but the pain didn't go away until after fall ball.
Wider is more stable but it doesn't seem that the increase in stability outweigh the loss of height.
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ChapJim,
Sounds like you were using the "too wide" stance.
The Gerry Davis system is about comfort and stability.
For what it's worth, I just measured my stance.
5'10"; 185#; Shoulder width: 18"
Stance width: 36" [outside of foot to outside of foot]
(Wow!!! That's double-wide eh? Cool!)
Eye height standing: 66-1/2"
Eye height at rest before pitch: 54"
Eye height at delivery: 50"
It is what it is. [shrug]
mick
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5' 10"
Toe-to-toe: 40"
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Bob,
What are you hiding from? 
(I'll get that wide with short batters.)
mick
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