Posted by: Teacherman () on Sat Mar 1 09:10:15 2003

Major Dan,
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> I appreciate your interest in who I am and whether or not I actually exist. We all thank you for your search to clear up that mystery. I have tried to return your calls to see if you have a legitimate question. Please feel free to call my office at your convenience.
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> In response to your posts last month, I am afraid I have to tell you that no one has frightened me away because they were able to form an opinion on what they think is happening in the swing. I invite anyone who thinks they know to step up and have any athlete hooked up an see what they are doing.
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> As I have stated before our analysis is showing that athletes are not doing what we think they are doing. Because I have studied looked at over 10,000 swings in the last year (with specific detailed data), I can justify any claim that we make. Regardless of what Mr. O'Really and others think of Kinesiology, Exercise Physiology and other human sciences, i will continue to disagree.
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> If you want to see what some of the data looks like go to our website. Download our viewer and look at a couple of swings. I will email you some professional swings and some collegiate swings. The data is consistent. The bottom line is that an athlete should be efficient in their movement (swing/pitch/throw). if they are not being efficient, that's okay to some extent. But that exposes weaknesses in their hitting.
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> Many major league and minor league hitting instructors will agree that most of the guys in the big leagues do not have perfect swings. They can survive and do extremely well because they are still better than everyone else. Just because someone hits 70 homeruns, does not make them a model hitter. next week will add Alex Rodriguez to our data base, analyzing his entire swing from head to feet.
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> We will follow that up with Barry and Tejeda, Gonzales, and Griffey. Along the way will add most of the major and minor league players from each organization.
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> We have done a lot of softball research as well and will continue to do more.
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> You are correct in your assessment that we have not completed our research and we will probably never will complete it. It is an on going study because as athletes get in better shape, their power and efficiency will improve.
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> When you say prove it, as I have said before, go to our site, download the software, look at a couple of the swings that are there, and look at the data. It is not a guess of what they are doing it is exactly what they are doing to within less than one degree (margin of error). The bottom line is we can't debate the swing over a chat site when only one of us has seen the data.
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> Once you have lookd at the data, then ask questions seeking the truth, not my guess based upon what I think is happening in a video. As to the comments about Mark's swings and that no one could see what was happening....I think you would agree that if someone has looked at "data" from a swings and watched the swing as they occurred or on video, an assumption could be made that based upon the two assessments, one would be able to identify some of the same flaws in a swing viewed without the data. Patterns can exist and do cause the same or similar deficiencies.
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> Let me know when you would like for me to come and visit you or anyone else out there who is an expert and lets look at your best athletes swings. (Mr. O'Really) We can look at it together. Maybe you can show us something that we haven't seen.
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> Jack, if you are reading, I will be in California late next week. Would love to stop and see you. Best wishes to all.
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> Zig Ziegler
> Vice President
> Skill Technologies, Inc.

Avoiding the question Zig? Your promised swing clips. Where are they?