About
Performance Designed From Scratch
The Athlete
Growing up in upstate New York, Matt Petrone knew from an early age that he wanted to play baseball for as long as he possibly could, at the highest possible level.
From an early age, Petrone trained with persistence, desire, and a methodical approach to acquire the skills he needed. Empty gaps in his schedule were filled with extra sessions in the cage, two-a-days in the weight room, and hours diving in to strength and conditioning articles and textbooks.
After being virtually un-recruited out of high school, Petrone enjoyed a successful All-Rookie freshman season at the NCAA level, and created an opportunity to continue his college career down in North Carolina. When his college career was all said and done, he had received decorations in three of four seasons — including All-Region, All-Conference honors and Strength and Conditioning Athlete of the Year (2013).
As his NCAA career drew to a close, the un-recruited, un-drafted Outfielder from Upstate NY met his next challenge — a path to Professional Baseball. After multiple unsuccessful tryouts, Petrone's baseball career seemed to be on its last breath. In spite of initial rejections, Petrone enjoyed a brief stint in professional baseball, with one All-Star selection and a series of late-inning heroics across various independent leagues.
The Coach
In 2017, with nine years of accumulated experience as an NCAA and Pro Athlete, Petrone leveraged his skills to quickly become one of the premiere hitting instructors in the Greater Hudson Valley.
In 2018, Coach Matt began training a college shortstop looking to extend his career as a pitcher at the professional level. The pitcher's efforts to produce velocity were being done at the expense of his natural sequence. Neither verbal instruction nor the available tools were converting into the performance the athlete needed — in this case, throwing velocity. A solution was needed and the clock was ticking. That was the external problem.
The underlying problem was twofold:
Problem 1: A performance paradox known as the speed-accuracy trade-off, where training and acquiring one athletic quality are at odds with another.
Coach Matt was trying to improve the pitcher's throwing velocity — which he absolutely needed to get signed — while preserving the principles of the kinematic sequence.
Problem 2: Verbal cueing. The most common error committed by coaches at some point during their career — over-explaining, using words where they are not needed, and applying a personal bias to how the athlete should be moving, with complete disregard for their natural frame and mechanical signature. Where dynamic skill (coordination and timing) are governed primarily by the subconscious mind, verbal instruction pulls conscious thought into the equation — slowing down the brain's ability to process information and creating stiff, robotic movements.
To combat both problems, Coach Matt channeled the same outside-the-box mentality he used as an athlete. He wasn't happy with the tools in the box — so he looked outside it and built a different one.
The Inventor
Petrone designed a training environment from scratch — one that constrained the athlete in a way that made verbal instruction unnecessary. Coach Petrone was applying the constraint-led approach years before it became a mainstream practice. Designed to guide the body toward its natural movement patterns and also assess foundational movement qualities such as mobility, stability, and isometric strength.
It worked. Within a year, that shortstop turned pitcher took a professional mound for the first time — and Coach Petrone filed for a provisional patent shortly after.
From 2020 through 2024, Petrone tested various iterations of the Hyper Stride System across the East Coast and throughout the country.
In the middle of manufacturing his first production run, Petrone was granted his first U.S. patent for his duo-axial design. The system launched commercially on July 4, 2025 — manufactured entirely in the USA.
Today, Petrone consults and collaborates with some of the most renowned practitioners in the country — coaches, trainers, and performance specialists across disciplines integrating the Hyper Stride into their own training systems. In addition to running the business, he continues to work directly with athletes and coaches, building and growing the Hyper Stride from an idea into the national and global entity that it is today.
From athlete to coach, and now inventor — Matt Petrone's mission remains the same. Performance first, and when needed, designed from scratch.