Tips for Sliding in Baseball

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Juan Carlos with Expert Village. Today I'm going to teach you how to slide. In this segment just a quick reminder on knowing how to slide. Number one you must run hard, number two you must be able to find a point of a certain distance to the bag before you go down, number three you must do the figure four making sure you reach with one foot and tucking in the knee with the other leg. Four keeping your hands off the ground as you want to prevent any lack of momentum going to the base and five to prevent injury making sure that you tuck in the leg and you keep your hands off the ground and lean back to reach for the base. "