Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Tue Jan 16 23:14:42 2007

>>> Thanks Jack. That's my point. Take 50 MLB hitters and you'll see very similar swingpaths on video, but they all tried to do something different to get there. <<<

Hi Jimmy

I suppose by “tried to do something different,” that you mean they were actually trying to “swing down through the ball.” If that is true, those 50 MLB hitters were the lucky ones. I have analyzed video of hundreds of young hitters who were told to “swing down at the ball.” Many of them must have been the unlucky students who could follow instructions – their bats were angling downward in the contact zone.

Jack Mankin