Just curious how many people use 4-step vs. 5-step vs. other step deliveries.

I'd like to know your thoughts on why you use the delivery that you do? Is it just the way you were taught, or is there another reason (form control, psychological, etc.)

I was taught 5-step about 25 years ago, and I find that it helps to keep me slower to the line because of the additional step. I do start further back on the lane, though.

I have friends who use 4-step, 5-step, and one who even uses 7 steps!
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I use a 4-step approach and stand about 8 inches in front of the dots closest to the lane . . . Don't really know why I use a 4-step approach, I think it may have been a way I tried to slow myself down . . . It didn't really help, but it felt more comfortable.
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I use 4 steps. Was taught that way as a young boy, and have never tried any other way. Several strangers have told me that I have a very smooth approach. I start about midway between the two rows of dots. Makes sense to me that the shoe with the rubber on the bottom provides traction to initiate the approach (and again to initiate momentum just before the slide step of course). Works well for me, but this is just one of those things where there can be no right or wrong... everyone remembers that old cranker who took about 42 steps, right?!

I use a 7step approach normally but i take alot of baby steps 8 if i want to throw the ball slower
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