Posted by: toti (pe@toti.com) on Fri Oct 17 06:02:01 2003

I am just about to buy the video and am 90% sold on the mechanics. However, how do you deal with outside pitches using rotational mechanics methodology?
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> I'm sure te video goes into this but I'd like to know in general terms.
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> Thanks!

hi

it is sort of dark area for rotational. we all have trouble with outside pitches be it linear or rotational. in theory we "should let it get deep" and "wait". that´s kind of the theory. how you do it is a mistery that no one has unravelled. the theory breaks down as we are in live pitching. natural tendency is to rush and pull the outside pithc. we see it in mlb too. powerful hitters pulling the outside pithc..for grounders to short, or third, etc.

many say that the outside pitch should be hit with extended armsj and half hip rotation. i say no. i have seen and hit the crap out of a ball with fully rotated hips and a slotted elbow. it can be done and it is beautiful when it happens. bummer is that you do that only with less than two strikes. with two strikes, mechanics are secondary and strike zone is bigger.

anyway. go for rotational. it is the less worse thing out there.


toti