Posted by: Jack Mankin (Mrbatspeed@aol.com) on Sun Apr 20 13:57:39 2003

>>> “The rear hip drives my swing, thus timing issues that the front side push can do to a swing are more easily tamed by just hitting with the back side”. <<<

Hi Coach C

It would appear from your statement above that you may also feel the legs play a more important role in your swing than just supporting a platform for the torso to rotate from. After all, the hips rotate ahead of shoulder rotation and that requires the legs to be involved. I concentrate on driving the lead-hip back toward the catcher by extending the lead-leg while you think of driving the back-hip forward. Who is to say which is correct if they both result in the correct rotation of the shoulders. --- We should keep in mind that that neither extending the lead-leg nor popping the back-hip (from what ever source) has any influence on power and bat speed other that their contribution to shoulder rotation.

Jack Mankin