How to Slide Through a Base in Baseball

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Juan Carlos for Expert Village. Today I'm going to teach you how to slide. In this segment we're going to teach you a technique called the slide by. A slide by the only difference is when we normally slide to the base with your foot making contact to the base you want to slide away from the base and reaching with your arm. Now a regular slide by like we demonstrated is a simple slide just with your foot going directly to the base. A slide by is slightly different. We're sliding the exact same way, the technique doesn't change but the slide is now away from the base taking the momentum up to the base with your left arm and reaching it with your left hand. This is only done to where if you are able to avoid a tag and making the play reach for you as oppose to reaching for your ankle for a simple out. "