Posted by: Teacherman () on Mon Nov 19 15:19:59 2007

The launch is sudden. Instantaneous. You launch and spend. The launch is over almost as quickly as it took to launch.

It resembles the "crack" of a whip in it's suddenness. Because that is what it is.....the sudden change of direction of the barrel.....much like the sudden change of direction of the tip of the whip.

To be pushing through contact means your bat speed is WAY late. It's developing as you contact the ball. That will NEVER work.

The proper mlb resembles a ball on a rope. To get the ball turning in a circle you have to intially energize it....quickly....and create the arc. Then it takes very little action of the wrist to keep it in that arc.

The swing starts very similar...instantaneously and then it's on autopilot to and through contact as the hands move the arc to the ball.

If you try to see the ball, determine it's location THEN swing by pushing through contract you won't play very long.

A mlb hitter starts the arc before reconition and then moves the arc to the ball. They do that by torquing the handle at "go"...instantaneously...the barrel goes rearward....into an arc and this arc is then moved toward the ball.

See Posada again. http://www.hittingillustrated.com/library/Posadasidebyside.gif

Or, take a look at many of today's greats. Notice the direction of the barrel at "go". It's rearward. This allows early batspeed and high adjustability.

Waiting until recongition so you can push through is not the high level pattern.