Posted by: () on Thu Apr 17 07:05:52 2003

Hi. Straight from an excerpt at hitting.com
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> "By squishing the bug, hitters tend to leave too much weight back, therefore, not transferring their weight to the center position. Following are the results of squishing the bug:
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> A rotational swing which will cause you to pull off the ball prematurely.
> A collapsing of the back side which will cause you to hit weak fly balls to the opposite field. "


True, if you do the rotational swing improperly, those are the most likely results. Notice, that it never says those things HAVE to happen, it just says those things TEND to happen. I could produce a list of negative consequences of linear hitting too.