Posted by: rql () on Tue May 21 19:12:36 2002

P.S. I should have mentioned that in this swing, the wrists never break or roll or anything. The bat ends up behind my right hip (I'm a lefty), with the palm of my bottom hand still facing down the same way it was at the beginning of the swing, and the bat-head facing straight out the side.
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> > > There is no question that for me, this is by far the most powerful way to hit a ball. I just haven't been able to duplicate these "mechanics" as a general process, in all areas of the strike zone.
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> > > Thoughts?
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> > This swing is likely to be the quickest/fastest/most powerful.Torso turn is maximal and continues through contact.The handpath hooks due to shortening of front arm with maintenance of good connection.It requires using mostly the front side scapula/back muscles to accomplish this shortening.Don't shorten by using arm muscles to flex elbow.Relative quickening of handpath by hooking relatively delays bathead swinging out,keeping ball fair and hit on upswing with plenty of elevation.History is made on the inside of the plate.
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> > See Piazza do it-
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> > http://www.setpro.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000507.html
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> i know jack feels the front elbow should be fairly straight....i would love to hear his comments...

>>Tom we talked about this before what tightensthe hand path,you I think were talking about the hands tightening and the lean back allowing it to come through further back which I touched on years ago.I was feeling like the elbow was pulling backcoming across tight keeping the body back or creating the lean back but now though my cue is still the elbow pulling the handpath tighter it is as you say the lead scapula that is powering the pull back.The elbow is half way between the hands and scapula and though I teach retraction of the hands for a tighter handpath I tell them the elbow is pulling it back which it just feels like to me but the elbow is being pulled by the scapula,again if they understand the whole process they can make more sense of the cues but how much can you feed 17 y.o.The elbow cannot have much power but it seems to cause immediately reaction to hands and is a link between scap and hands and allows the right feel to allow scap to work instead of hands.