The significance about "striding your height" at least, is the foundation of where the term, "sneaky fast" comes from...So its a good thing to at least stride your height. So the closer the to the plate where the release point is gives the impression that a FB for example gets on the batter faster. May only show 85 on the gun but appears to the batter as 88. Called sneaky fast and usually comes from a stride of 100 % or greater. Hope this helps.