Posted by: () on Tue Apr 22 20:57:32 2003

No Name,
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> > > Perhaps it can't be seen (it can in slo-mo), and perhaps it can't be taught.
> > > Perhaps genetics play a greater role. Perhaps only a natural swinger has it.
> > > The question is:
> > > Can you not have both a circular hand path AND a top-hand that drives past the bottom-hand just before contact?
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> > > ray porco
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> > The circular hand path has very little to do with the hands. If you rotate your body, you will have some kind of circular hand path. In the correct swing, the hands do not change their relationship to the rest of the body. They just "hold on for the ride" as the body rotates.
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> > As far as your question, I guess the answer would have to be yes. But, I don't believe that is the best way to do it. If the top hand drives past the bottom hand just before contact, that means you "roll over". As you roll over, you should notice that the bat changes its position and raises. This will most likely cause you to hit ground balls, because you will hit the top half of the ball. Most weak grounders to the left side (for a righty) are because of roll over. In the correct swing, roll over doesn't happen until way after contact, in the follow through.
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> To the guy without a name: for your information,the circular hand path has a lot to do with the hands. I don't want to sound sarcastic, but if the circular hand path has nothing to do with the hands, what does it have to do with, the ears, the nose or what? True,if you rotate the body you will get some kind of circular hand path, as you say. But we are talking about DEGREE. If you swing a bat willy-nilly you might happen to get lucky once in a while and hit the ball, but how hard and how often?


If you hold your hands against you chest and rotate, what do you get? A circular hand path. Yes, the "circular HAND path" is measured by the path the hands take. But what part did your hands have in that path? NONE. That is my point.

The circular hand path is pretty much self explanatory, but how you get it is the question. The hands have NO active role in creating the circular hand path. They are put in a spot at launch, and they stay in that relationship to the body throughout the swing. The body rotation is what really causes the circular hand path.

That is also why A-Rod is part linear (in fact probably the most linear of any good MLB hitter). His hands have an active role in his swing. They do not stay in the same relationship to the body.