I understand people wanting to put hand on knees but I tell my umps to try the wrists. I have an ump that is going to pitch for Oklahoma in spring of 2004 and told him to use wrist and to keep the hands loose this way his pitching hand has a seriously less chance of getting broken if by chance it does get hurt. He said he still feels locked in doing it this way..

I personally keep one arm across my belt in front and my left arm a tuck to my side actaully grabbing the back of my leg. I use this as my lock and it helps me with my timing as well as it takes a tenth of a second for it to make the strike call. I have also backed away from F2 a bit as well and found I can see things a little better instead of having them explode in my face at times. Although the one hand is kinda behind me, I am balanced, locked (actually better I feel) and I feel calling better overall. Unfortunetly my "mentor" is recovering from open heart surgury so I have not been able to get his input on my stance yet.

I used to do something like that, where I tucked my hand behind my knee, essentially grabbing the back of my leg. The problem I had with it is when I got fatigued, which would happen after 2-1/2 to 3 hours in the blazing July or August sunshine with a 75° dew point, my elbow would fly out. I didn't even realize it until I took a foul ball off of it. I tried hard to remember to keep it tucked, but that wasn't good enough under some of the conditions that our adult amateur leagues placed me in.