Posted by: grc (grcrackel@yahoo.com) on Wed Jul 19 09:48:21 2000

jack...as you may know, i have big reservations about the fence drill...there is one individual at hitting.com who continually asserts that the fence drill facilitates the hands "beating the bat head to the ball, and of course this is true...but i maintain that just because the hands are "quick" to the ball does not by any means equate to increased batspeed because of the deviation from the correct sequence of hips>shoulders>arms>hands>wrists>bathead....i have pointed this out to many people but this one particular individual seems to have a problem understanding the concept....MY QUESTION TO YOU IS THIS: would the following be a good analogy in articulating the flaws in the theory of "hands beating the bat" to the ball....if a pitcher were to, without winding up or turning his hips in, simply , with great "armspeed" throw the ball at it's target, we would all agree that he may have great "armspeed" but he would have much less "ball speed"...in other words, for the "arm speed" to do any good, you have to do the other things (wind up, "rearing back", etc), and in the proper sequence....and the same thing apllies to the swing...what good does it do, from a physics point of view to get the hands out quickly if you haven't first got the hips, shoulders, etc in action......i would greatly appreciate your evaluation of this analogy...respectfully, grc....