Posted by: grc () on Thu Mar 21 08:13:37 2002

>>> hi, jack....i'm glad to see you are talking to me again....would you care to respond to my comments/quesions of march 10 and march 15? thanks.... <<<
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> Hi grc
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> Below is our discussion on the 10th –
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> I stated:
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> >It follows the linear theme that the front-side just clears out to allow the back-side to come through. It also points out that shoulder rotation is seldom mentioned by most coaches, at least not in a positive light. Yet, driving or popping the hips has no effect on accelerating the bat-head unless that hip action causes the shoulders to move or rotate. The hips are not linked to the bat – the shoulders are.
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> > So maybe your statement should read: “Inside you drive the backside ‘shoulder’ directly through the front ‘shoulder’, and outside, you drive the backside ‘shoulder’ directly through the opposite field location that ball contact is anticipated.” Driving the hips while the shoulder remains static accomplishes nothing.
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> > Jack Mankin
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>  >>> jack...you said " driving or popping the hips has no effect on accelerating the bat-head unless that hip action causes the shoulders to move or rotate."
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> you just described exactly why hitting the outside pitch effectively requires going "linear"....
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>  grc <<<.
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> Your statement above made absolutely no sense to me. Please explain how you came to that conclusion.
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> Jack Mankin
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> thanks for the response, jack.....you said " driving or popping the hips has no effect on accelerating the bat-head unless that hip action causes the shoulders to move or rotate."

and i said "you just described exactly why hitting the outside pitch effectively requires going "linear"....

my point was to make a connection between what you said and what i have been saying....we could combine our two statements and say something like this: on an outside pitch , since there is/should be less hip rotation, there is/should be less shoulder rotation....therefore, therefore the hips have less effect on accelerating the bathead......so, if the hips provide less bathead acceleration, what else can provide bathead acceleration except by going "linear"?

now, mind you, i'm not suggesting that going "linear" provides AS MUCH bathead accelearation on an outside pitch vs. an inside pitch....i'm simply saying that if you acknowledge the fact (which i have established time and again)that you don't have full hip/shoulder rotation on an outside pitch, then the only effective way to hit an outside pitch is by going "linear"......

respectfully, grc....