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[treefeller]

Hi all, seems like a great forum here

I'm wondering what peoples thoughts are on using your back foot to get into line.  I've always thought it was just about the front foot but at nets one of the best batsmen was saying move the back foot then the front into line.  This was for playing off the front foot by the way.

[mr_wickets]

Wouldn't that limit the area you can hit the ball? If you get everything in-line for a straight drive, you can't play a cover drive and limit yourself to hitting through mid-off-mid-on.

Also you'd need to be very quick on your feet to do this and then try to make sure your base is solid at point of contact. Not really something I'd try to do.

[Nickauger]

Just sounds like a back foot, back and across trigger to me!

[mr_wickets]

Just sounds like a back foot, back and across trigger to me!

Fair enough. I don't think I'll try it. Sounds like you could end up walking into shots.

[The Palmist]

Fair enough. I don't think I'll try it. Sounds like you could end up walking into shots.

What's wrong with that?

[Nickauger]

What's wrong with that?

So, so much!

[LEACHY48]

What's wrong with that?

your off balance, therefore less power, your head is all over the place, therefore you are less likely to make contact, your eyes arent level, again less likely to make contact, no solid base therfore probably end up trying to work everything to leg as you will be falling over...etc etc

[Nato]

I've spent all season fighting my initial trigger (back foot away), and sorted that. Don't think I'll be trying another back foot first movement, as I'm more confident now my trigger is front foot forward and across slightly.

[treefeller]

Thanks for the replies it did seem a bit odd to me and surely against anyone quicker it'd be very difficult to get the front foot into line if you're moving the back foot first

[Nickauger]

Thanks for the replies it did seem a bit odd to me and surely against anyone quicker it'd be very difficult to get the front foot into line if you're moving the back foot first

Ironically, this would be the only time I would consider a trigger movement (against express pace), and with 100s of hours to practice it. Otherwise, leave well alone!

[Simmy]

What's wrong with that?

in my eyes mate nothing lol get down that track

[Nickauger]

in my eyes mate nothing lol get down that track

Haha that's a different technical approach entirely lol. One which I also completely agree with!

[Banksy]

But do you mean using the back foot to come forward to get in line? Or to get across? You see a lot of pro's going across with the back foot as their first movement.

[treefeller]

But do you mean using the back foot to come forward to get in line? Or to get across? You see a lot of pro's going across with the back foot as their first movement.

As far as I could tell it was related to using the back foot to come forward to come into line but I may have got the wrong end of the stick entirely 

[Nato]

But do you mean using the back foot to come forward to get in line? Or to get across? You see a lot of pro's going across with the back foot as their first movement.

I worked with a coach in the winter who suggested when he saw I was stepping away to bring my back foot up close to my front foot just before the ball was fed into the machine, meaning the only way I could go was forward. The theory was that as my feet were close together, in order to stop myself over balancing, I would have to move my front foot forward. It did force me out of stepping back, but I abandoned the back foot step once I'd worked the old trigger out of my game.