A great way to stay away from injury is to learn how to slide properly. If you do this properly, you should never have a strawberry or scraped hands. Along with staying away from injuries, being a good slider will help you to be a better all around player. As you get older in this game, you will need to know how to do a hook slide and back door slide as well as when is the right time to slide or not slide.
Let’s talk really quick about sliding at home. Whoever is on deck needs to be there telling the runner to slide or not to slide and to which side of the plate. If the catcher is in front of the plate, this is when we will slide wide to the side of the plate and try to reach back and touch the base with just our hand.
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