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It can be pretty annoying, if your on a tight stage where the basses are placed in rows, to be stuck behind someone who's over 6 ft. and standing. Kind of hard to see through them.

Pivoting is pretty much necessary to play a lot of the standard literature. I don't know about on-line resources, but the Rabbath books are very thorough in covering this technique. Another overlooked resource for working on the pivot technique is; Henry Portnoi's, Creative Bass Technique, which...

An overhand bow grip is historically inaccurate.

With the vast amount of etude books at are disposal you can find many etudes that correlate to orchestral passages. If you have a library with a good sheet music selection near you, you may be able to find books that link orchestra parts with bass technique more directly, like: Issaiah Bille's...

It was originally written for the violin. I did it on a recital once and would have to look to see if I still have the program notes for it, to give you any more information.