Posted by: Teacherman () on Fri Feb 14 10:41:39 2003

Last night I had a person who could not hit a lick, try to tell me why I was wrong and how I was wrong. The fact of the matter is he had no clue on what he was talking about, and he did not want to understand what I was trying to say. Everyday I check this board to read the e-mails and they are no differant than the people who come into my cage and try to teach their kid how to hit. These people could be looking at the best or worst hitter in the world and would not know the difference. So, Hank Kings of the world without listening to all the information that's available and fully understanding it don't pop off like you know. You don't. That includes me, when I have a problem I call Jack and I ask, bacause I do not know everything all the time.
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> > > > > Ditto and good for you John! Stand up for what you know is right. I really don't have much time for those who don't.
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> > > > >> well maybe we do have something in common, teacherman.
> > > > but enough of the rah! rah!
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> > > Well if you explain hitting like this website does. I wouldn't understand what you were saying either. You have to teach it in layman terms.......
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> > No vman, just keep studying the new terminology. It's really not that hard to get if you study.
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> >seriously, vman is on the money. picture a hundred young ballers between the ages of 12 and 14. go ahead and run this theory by them in a camp style hitting lecture, they won't understand the point of it at all, and i truely believe you would have a bunch of young hitters spinning off the ball.

You take the same 100 kids, you give them your pitch in a camp setting, and they won't understand a thing you said either. The English language is not that difficult to understand. But the camp setting is bad. It takes individual instruction over several sessions but the job can/does get one. Without spinning off the ball!

I see the problem as the teachers don't want to go to school and keep up with the new terminology. Are you saying a kid understands "shift your weight forward against a stiff front side" more than he understands "rotating around a stationery axis"? I don't think so. The student doesn't understand either line. It's the teacher who doesn't keep up with his homework that is the biggest problem.