Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Sat Dec 1 20:17:03 2007

>>> Both yourself and Teacherman talk about THT causing the barrel to go rearward at the start of the swing-path.

Why is it when players swing a bat with the bottom hand only (in some drill-work), the barrel goes rearward as well?

No top hand on the bat to supply your THT, but the same rearward path result occurs.

Can you explain? Thanks. <<<

Hi Jimmy

You are exactly right, the bat-head does accelerate rearward when swung with the bottom-hand alone. In fact, that is first thing I have a student practice when learning to apply THT. Then, the students learn how to greatly increase that rearward acceleration by adding the correct use of the top-hand. -- As I told Teacherman, we will discuss THT in detail in another thread.

Jack Mankin