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1. Take your batting stance with your back shoulder pressed up against a wall. Your back foot should be lined up directly under your shoulder and your back knee as illustrated. (Yes, this might necessitate lowering your back elbow for the time being, but don't worry, we will get to whether your little league coach was right when he or she told you to "keep your back elbow up, so that you swing level" in future "Tips of the Month").
2. You should also have your weight distributed about 70 - 30 with most of your weight on your back foot. To help achieve this distribution, you may want to bend your back knee just a bit.
3. Now, you should attempt to take a small stride with your front foot stepping towards the pitcher without allowing your back shoulder to come off the wall. At Clutch Hitting, we like to say "it's like stepping on thin ice." That is, your stride should be a soft stride which does not offset your weight distribution. In this position, a batter is now prepared to hit. A batter does not stride at the same time that he or she swings. The stride merely prepares a batter to hit.
