Reply to "Stride - Yes? No? How? What do you think about it?"

You dont have to do anything with your front foot to open your hips.  Have you done any boxing or Martial Arts training?  The front foot is a trigger and that is all, it does not generate power but acts solely  as a partial  foundation for the "core" to rotate and generate the power.  These days trainers talk about building up the core of your body to generate more power.  This is something martial artists have been doing for hundreds of years.  If you look at the "athletic stance" used by players in the batters box it is nothing more than a "riding horse stance" used by fighters for balance.  As far as it helping with timing.  Once again, what pitch is coming?  How many players do you see "guess" wrong or get "fooled" by a pitch.  When working off a tee, do you time the ball just sitting there.  Before MLB games at batting practice.  Are they throwing game speed to get used to the "timing"?  Or are they working on "seeing" the ball and getting the muscles ready to work.  Watch some youtube of "power breaking" and then tell me you need to move your front foot to generate power, and no it is not a different motion.  Here are some other statements the "coach" loves to laugh at.  "Squish the bug" and  "hit down on the ball"  Have fun!