About
Performance Designed From Scratch
I. 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. In the Petrone household, baseball was a shared language. His father — a former college player himself — introduced the game to Matt and his brother, who also went on to play at the Division I level. Backyards were converted for catch play, tee work, and full-on wiffle ball stadiums.
What he lacked in raw physical ability — the 95+ arm, the 6.4 speed, the 400 ft. power — he replaced 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 researching strength and conditioning articles and textbooks.
Out of high school, Petrone was virtually un-recruited — a complete unknown to the schools he wanted to play for. After a successful All-Rookie freshman season, he created a path for himself to continue his college career down south in North Carolina. When his college career was all said and done, he had received decorations in three of four seasons — including All-Region and All-Conference honors.
As his NCAA career drew to a close, Petrone met his next challenge — an impossible path to Major League Baseball as an un-drafted free agent. 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 — one All-Star selection and a series of late-inning heroics across various independent leagues, including the American Association, the highest level he reached.
II. The Coach
In 2017, with nine years of accumulated experience as an NCAA and professional athlete, Petrone naturally 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 and universal to all coaches and athletes.
Problem 1: A performance paradox known as the speed-accuracy trade-off — one must often choose between speed and command, and the methods for acquiring one are usually at odds with the other. Coach Matt was trying to improve the pitcher's 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 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. Imagine hitting the gas full throttle while in neutral, or trying to write in cursive with your non-dominant hand. In both instances, bandwidth is severely limited.
Though well-intentioned, the coach's desire to be useful ultimately prevents the athlete from performing to their fullest potential. The coach's bias is typically built from their own experience as a player, or from treating the athlete as "the average" — and is rarely applicable to the athlete.
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.
III. 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.