Posted by: Teacherman () on Thu Feb 13 15:17:01 2003

ok, first i would like to say that it takes guts to develop a theory and put it out there for everyone to see.
> now, georger and frank don't get your noses all knocked out of joint. and don't raise your voice at me!!
> for those who want clear def. between linear and rotational, it is on this site under bat speed research. read it.
> and if you read my first note again you won't see the word linear in there anywhere, so i don't know what your talking about. i talk about "weight shift". and if your going to sit here and tell me that griffey doesn't shift his weight against a firm front side then you better check notes.
> there is most def. rotation in hitting, but it is not done with the back and shoulder muscles as the leads as "wrist action or torque" would have you believe. as well, the entire body does not rotate at the same time as "rotation and the stationary axis" would have you believe. also at no time does the hitter chest and belley button face the pitcher just prior contact,"wrist action or torque".
> the rotation is in sequence that starts from the ground up. and don't give me your gary ward comments, gary didn't invent that he just wrote it down, and last i checked his teams could really hit.
> every muscle in the body is probably used at some point when hitting. the primary muscles if hitting properly would be;the quads and gluts, the abs(core strength),forearms and hands.
> i gotta go watch some baseball so i need to go but more to come later, you guys should be paying me for this.

I guess you've studied hitting without the use of video!? Kind of difficult to do isn't it? I've got a large mlb swing clip library and everyone of them are facing the pitcher with their chest and belly button at or even before contact. Bonds, Ramirez, Giambi, Gonzalez, Edmonds, Glaus to name a few.