Posted by: grc (grcrackel@yahoo.com) on Fri Aug 11 17:44:47 2000

JACK.....my son, who throws right but has always batted left had always had a severe "inside-out" swing....hit great to lef & center but the only thing he could pull to the right side was a grounder to 1b or 2b....couldn't get help from pro instructors (one of them axtually suggested the fence drill, believe it or not)....continually taped him/analyzed/experimented & in the end, this is what helped him ....it was obvious from the tapes that he did not have a circular hand path & he recognized that he needed one...problem was that he could just not get his hands to do what he knew they were supposed to do, especially when game time came along....but then we tried this: contrary to common advice against bat "wrapping", i had a hunch that if his bat stayed "wrapped" somewhat like gary sheffield, without him even thinking about it, his hands could be "forced" to start out on a circular path....we tried it and it work.....and all the while any connection to this idea & the top hand torque did not occur to me....until today...i was going back to your materials & ran across "energy of rotation" with the 2 diagrams, one of the "average" hitter & one of the "great" hitter...i noticed that in the diagram of the great hitter you show the forces of the bathead going in one direction & the forces of the knob going in the opposite direction....THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS VISUALIZING as the way for my son to develop a circular hand path!!!! tom.guerry tried a number of times to articulate the top-hand torque concept & i couldn't understand it before...and yet, does it sound to you like i may have have stumbled on to the concept, or am i completely off-base? i would greatly appreciate a response from you or anyone else who is extremely familiar with the concept.....and i may very well have more questions...respectfully, grc.....P.S. yesterday i finally got around to ordering the video !!!