Posted by: Jon (jonwilliams@fuse.net) on Wed Sep 10 13:02:50 2003

My 9-year old instinctively learned to release his top hand as he completes his swing. He lets go well after impact and hits the ball with authority using this method so I've never tried to adjust it.

He went to a tryout for a select team recently and a couple of the coaches spent his entire hitting session trying to get him to complete the swing with both hands on the bat as, according to them, he's losing "40% of his power" by following through the way he naturally does. This caused him to spin his head and upper body out of the swing and was clearly an unnatural feeling for him.

I searched the last few months' posts here and didn't see a discussion on this so sorry if it's been covered before. Any thoughts from the group on this topic would be appreciated.

Jon