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Originally Posted by pdxblue

I am not a fan of the GD stance at all. All the guys that I see trying it are terribly inconsistent on their low strike, and tend to not give the high strike too often.

I use a modified GD stance. I am MUCH closer to the catcher, and do not work that high (which is dangerous! you are more apt to get hit by foul tips working that high....yes, I have tried the GD, and didn't like being that much of a target). I get my chin to the top of the catchers helmet (roughly).

Working three feet behind the catcher just doesn't work. Again, everybody I see calling from that far back usually has a major inconsistency in their strike zone, and it REALLY calls attention to itself! I hear coaches complain all the time about the local guys that use the GD, about how they are "too far back to call the low pitch right" is what I hear most often.

Oh well, those that use the GD are convinced that they are doing everything good. Whatever gets them through a game I guess.

If you are inconsistent in GD, you are gonna be inconsistent w/ the box or scissors. The dead-rock-solid lock-in gives you the OPPORTUNITY for an absolutely consistent "look" at every pitch. If you can't call the up/down consistently in GD, the problem is YOU, not your stance.

Oh, yeah: NOBODY doing GD has EVER been hit by a "foul tip" nor in any other stance, for that matter. Foul balls, maybe .... but I've been doing Davis for 2 years now, including time behind some pretty lame catchers, and the only times I've been drilled were pitches that'd hit me no matter what stance I was in ... only difference w/ the stance is WHERE they hit me. Most of what I've been hit by gets the middle plate of my hardshell CP: where it not for the loud THWOCK!!! I'd not know anything had happened.

Originally Posted by GD

How do you get this perception from the document. GD is best for absolutely locking in on a pitch, the first item listed on the document.

Well, in fairness to pdx: the last bullet point [does not set up too high or deep] COULD be a shot at GD, although GD seems to hit for every other one of the bullets in the evaluation standard.