Ok,
 

Jamie, please make a little effort yourself:

Click on the "search" button at the top of this page.

Type in "Davis Stance" . . .

When the threads come up go down a bout 10 threads until you see a couple of "Davis Stance" threads.

Click on them until you find this link.

It works fine from that location.

Regards,

its not jamie, the whole point is to try to avoid the whole search thing.

Sorry if I am lazy, just one of those days.

...A stride to start. 30"-34" :)

Ok,
 

Kyle:

I am not very good at this type explanation so stick with me:

When I worked the Davis at TOP my hands are on my knees with the "v" between thump and first finger inserted down into the area where my leg guards end at my knee.

My "trigger" to set is to push my hands slightly forward. This means, too me, that little of the "bone part" of my hand is showing just the flesh part until you get to the wrist.

The worst hit I got this year (*) was from a batter that bunted at and fouled back a pretty good fastball. The ball hit me about 4" above the wrist bone.

Using the Davis Stance System does not mean that you won't get hit at all it just seems to me that you get hit less. Being back certain lowered the number of times I was hit during the 5 1/2 years I used the stance.

(*) I no longer stand back 4' as I did when using the Davis. I still work "double wide" but I work in the normal positioning just back of F2 (note: please note that Gerry Davis, Gary Darling and Mark Wegner three practioners of the GDS also no longer work deep).

I did this because evaluators, coaches and assignors do not accept change easily and I found being deep was something I constantly had to defend.

Regards,

Thanks Tim,

Your latest stance sounds like what I've evolved to now, and for similar reasons. The two shots on the hands were just a freak happenstance. I was just cursing Gerry for a couple of days afterwards.

Kyle

I work 9' behind the corner of the plate. If you have a correct catcher's box, that extends 8' from the point of the plate -- so I'm just behind that. Most teams that put one down use the batter's box template, so I'm right on the end line.

This lets me work in the same spot 95% of the time -- whether the catcher is up (a little) or back. If the batter is up in the box and the catcher moves far forward, I adjust forward a little.