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Posted by: BatSpeed.com (support@batspeed.com) on Tue Oct 5 18:02:08 2004

Hi,
>
> First of all I would like to say that I just used the Instructo Swing this weekend, or should I say I was forced to use it this week at a college camp. May I say that this might be the worst piece of equipment ever designed to teach a rotational swing. My swing is really starting to look good on video and in the past 2 weekends I am 7-12 with 3 doubles and 8RBI's in a very competitive High School league. After studying rotational swings for the past two years and developing mine, I know for a fact that no rotational swing could fit in there. The first swing I took on it I almost knocked the thing over and cracked my bat. The coach then made me do it until I got it right, "Swinging down" and making me cringe at the thought I was throwing away hours of hard work right there. Then I later when out onto the field for live BP and hit some of the farthest balls at the camp and the coach praised me, yet I was using a rotational swing and not swinging down.... Please Mr. Eric enlighten me as to why this happened
>
> The fact is that you are just using this site as an outlet to promote your garbage piece of hitting equipment because I bet the sales of it are dropping. Jack should delete all of your posts, especially the ones saying that your product will help kids. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR RUINING MANY KIDS FUTURES BY CREATING A PRODUCT AND FALSELY MARKETING IT, SAYING THAT IT WILL HELP! It angers me that such an individual will stoop so low and advertise on this site just to make more money. I don't care what your background is, all I know is you can't come up with a decent product worth ten cents. Please just don't come back to this website unless you come up with a decent product that promotes proper mechanics.
>
> I'm no joke kid either, I'm being highly recruited by many universities and mostly because I found this site two years ago. If you would like a copy of a scouting report on me, Mr. Laseke, I would be glad to email it to you for "credibility" if you try to defend yourself that way.
>
> Normally I don't get that mad on this board and really enjoy reading it but you just disgust me.

Hi Dave:

We're glad to hear that rotational mechanics are working good for you.

Just a few comments about your post and other posts, this discussion board is not solely an outlet for people to praise rotational mechanics or Jack's videos and products, but rather a forum to debate various ideas and theories about the swing. Therefore, just because someone has an idea different from Jack's does not mean that we will delete those posts. When this board first opened, nobody agreed with Jack, but as you can see that has changed to a large degree.

Also, we do not allow posts that are strictly for advertising for products or websites, as determined by us. We've allowed this debate to continue because this product has been debated in a way that focuses on how to swing a bat and whether great hitters swing the bat in this manner. For the sake of the debate, we may allow it to continue so long as the owner of product is interested in discussing the merits of the product and the focus stays on the product.

Please email us if you have any further questions or comments.

Thanks,
BatSpeed.com

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> Hi,
> > 
> >  First of all I would like to say that I just used the Instructo Swing this weekend, or should I say I was forced to use it this week at a college camp. May I say that this might be the worst piece of equipment ever designed to teach a rotational swing. My swing is really starting to look good on video and in the past 2 weekends I am 7-12 with 3 doubles and 8RBI's in a very competitive High School league. After studying rotational swings for the past two years and developing mine, I know for a fact that no rotational swing could fit in there. The first swing I took on it I almost knocked the thing over and cracked my bat. The coach then made me do it until I got it right, "Swinging down" and making me cringe at the thought I was throwing away hours of hard work right there. Then I later when out onto the field for live BP and hit some of the farthest balls at the camp and the coach praised me, yet I was using a rotational swing and not swinging down.... Please  Mr. Eric enlighten me as to why this happened
> >  
> >   The fact is that you are just using this site as an outlet to promote your garbage piece of hitting equipment because I bet the sales of it are dropping. Jack should delete all of your posts, especially the ones saying that your product will help kids. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR RUINING MANY KIDS FUTURES BY CREATING A PRODUCT AND FALSELY MARKETING IT, SAYING THAT IT WILL HELP! It angers me that such an individual will stoop so low and advertise on this site just to make more money. I don't care what your background is, all I know is you can't come up with a decent product worth ten cents. Please just don't come back to this website unless you come up with a decent product that promotes proper mechanics. 
> > 
> >   I'm no joke kid either, I'm being highly recruited by many universities and mostly because I found this site two years ago. If you would like a copy of a scouting report on me, Mr. Laseke, I would be glad to email it to you for "credibility" if you try to defend yourself that way.  
> > 
> >  Normally I don't get that mad on this board and really enjoy reading it but you just disgust me. 
> 
> Hi Dave:
> 
> We're glad to hear that rotational mechanics are working good for you.  
> 
> Just a few comments about your post and other posts, this discussion board is not solely an outlet for people to praise rotational mechanics or Jack's videos and products, but rather a forum to debate various ideas and theories about the swing.  Therefore, just because someone has an idea different from Jack's does not mean that we will delete those posts.  When this board first opened, nobody agreed with Jack, but as you can see that has changed to a large degree.  
> 
> Also, we do not allow posts that are strictly for advertising for products or websites, as determined by us.  We've allowed this debate to continue because this product has been debated in a way that focuses on how to swing a bat and whether great hitters swing the bat in this manner.  For the sake of the debate, we may allow it to continue so long as the owner of product is interested in discussing the merits of the product and the focus stays on the product.
> 
> Please email us if you have any further questions or comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> BatSpeed.com

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