Posted by: Pro_Hitter (andygreen29@hotmail.com) on Wed Oct 29 13:34:17 2003

As a professional ballplayer (AA/AAA level), I spend a great deal of time working on my swing and studying. As I've begun to familiarize myself with the site, I have found a lot of things that I strongly agree with and only a few that I don't seem to grasp/like (don't know which one yet). However, I am fairly certain as I've studied the major league swing and my own swing, that the knee, hips, and shoulders do not go through the zone at the same time as what stated in the following: "Rotating around a stationary axis (neck and spine) is a "ground-up" movement where the knees, hips and shoulders all rotate in unison".

To me, hitting begins from the ground up. The soft front knee begins to turn which initiates the hip turn (around the axis) and the shoulder turn begins after that which releases the hands in an explosive, circular path towards the hitting zone. I know I'm splitting hairs here but the concept that all fly in unision just doesn't fly with me.