Posted by: Mike (reyg121@yahoo.com) on Mon Dec 3 13:41:15 2007

> If you bar arm do you lose power? What is the proper load and cocking of the hands? I am getting jammed a lot and hitting weak ground balls and my hitting instructor tells me to take my hands straight back as far as possible and I am bar arming when i do that and i want to know if that is making me get jammed and hitting weak grounders
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> Thanks

Why don't you watch some videos af some great hitters and slow it down. Especially on the outside pitch you will notice the front arms are barred out. The texeria videos that mr. mankin posted watch those and you will see mark having his arm barred the whole time.