Pre-Season Planning--What's Your Pivot Foot Philosophy?

As we plan our pre season workouts, we review all of our teaching points and philosophy. We want to simplify our teaching. We want to look at what we need to emphasize-daily, weekly, etc. Reviewing tape from last season will give us great ideas where to begin. One of the things we will look at is our footwork. Every coach must decide on a pivot foot philosophy.

1.) Permanent Pivot Foot (PPF)-- the nondominant leg is used as the pivot foot at all times, i.e., a right handed player used the left foot pivoting while the left handed player uses the right foot. The advantage of this philosophy is that it is simpler and it places the player in a shooting position with the dominant foot in a staggered stance.

2.) Either Pivot Foot (EPF)--the left or right foot may be used as the pivot foot by both right and left handed players. The advantage of the EPF technique is the flexibility to meet all situations and it's coordination with the quick stop (where either foot may be used as a pivot foot).