Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Tue Oct 28 13:29:12 2003

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Thanks again for posting.Here is a link to some of kata's descriptions.He found the scap loading idea very helpful as a way of keeping the hands back and loading better.This gets into the importance of what Jack describes as "THT" which creates a good upper body load if you cock and uncock the bat "right"(scap load to finish cocking,then get elbow into slot as hips stretch open going into toe touch to start uncocking).Cock and uncock with wrong muscles in wrong sequence and you lengthen/wrap/disconnect instead.Jack has emphasized the importance of the bat turning and accelerating into the plane of the swing as(actually assisting/enabling) the hands stay back.This would be called "pre-launch THT" since "launch" doesn't happen until you drop the front heel and uncock the hip,and separate some more before finally yanking the handpath forward,at which point the well connected pull through the bottom hand continues the acceleration of the bat that is alredy underway.

Here's a kata thread,you may have to type it in without spaces.

http://www.setpro.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000681