Posted by: Steve () on Sat Feb 15 11:39:25 2003

The way your explaining it sounds as if your promoting upper body and hand start before the hips start. Epstien is one that states the hips start before the hands to reach a torque position. If the lower half starts the same time as the upper half you have no torque to excelerate the upper half.
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> > > How do you get "upper body and hand start" out of "the swing starts with the front heel dropping and the rear heel raising?"
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> > Are you saying start the hips first. If you are then I agree
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> Get in your batting stance. Stride to the toes of your front foot. Then at decision time drop the front heel and raise the rear heel. What do your hips do? Absolutely, they lead the hands. The difference between drop the front heel and squish the bug is in the weight distribution.

It sounds to me we're teaching the same stuff but in different packages. I don't teach squish the bug I teach a slight push to the frontside by lifting the heel of the back foot sounds like we're on the same page just different terminology.