Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Sun May 13 10:53:21 2001

>>> From what I've read, it seems to me that creating good bottom hand torque isn't a whole lot more than a good wrist snap. What do you think? <<<

Hi John F

The mechanics of applying bottom-hand-torque to the bat is a very different than the traditional wrist-snap concept. The wrist-snap is part of the whip theory where the batter quickly extends the bat knob first until the arms near full extension. The whip and wrist-snap theory would have the hands and knob of the bat extended while the bat-head remains back. Then the transfer of the bat’s momentum along with the snapping of the wrist is supposed to accelerate the bat-head to contact.

John, I think a more careful reading of bottom-hand-torque principles and mechanics will reveal a very different concept from the wrist snapping approach.

Jack Mankin