Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Thu Jul 3 12:43:39 2008

>>> JAck-

I think it is possible for longer swing radius/outside/low locations for the lead elbow to extend after the lead wirst has started to unhinge and still not decelerate before contact.

in this case the upper arm still needs to be internally rotated/connected to shoulders that keep turning until contact <<<

Hi Tom

I agree to a point. If the batter applied PLT and THT to keep the angular acceleration of the bat-head in sync with shoulder rotation, the greater pendulum effect of the wider hand-path would generate good bat speed to that point. The bat-head may not decelerate, but allowing the lead-hand to drift forward instead of hooking rearward would diminish torque at the handle for increasing bat speed from that point to contact.

Jack Mankin