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Posted by: Pro_Hitter (andygreen29@hotmail.com) on Wed Oct 29 13:41:39 2003

Tom-

I appreciate the link to Kata and the affirmation. I know Matty very well. I've actually followed him up the chain and he is one step ahead of me (needless to say one very big step - the Big Leagues). Anyway, he is a great hitter and has a firm grasp on hitting and as I've spent time on the net studying the swing over the past week, I've begun to realize how much Matt had picked up from www.setpro.com. It's amazing how much we can still learn if we remain humble and willing. I believe that he would attribute his ascent to the Majors from his willingness to stay a student of the game even after he had a great deal of understanding. We can all learn from that.

As far as scap loading and Kata go. He came back to spring training and the first thing he complemented me on was my scap load. I had never heard that terminology, but I always envisioned my load as a back elbow load. Where you don't even worry about moving the hands so much as you do about pulling your back elbow towards the third base dugout (right handers). Anyway, thanks for the info and I'm really enjoying this site and learning a lot.

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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.
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> Here's a kata thread,you may have to type it in without spaces.
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> http://www.setpro.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000681

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> I appreciate the link to Kata and the affirmation.  I know Matty very well.  I've actually followed him up the chain and he is one step ahead of me (needless to say one very big step - the Big Leagues).  Anyway, he is a great hitter and has a firm grasp on hitting and as I've spent time on the net studying the swing over the past week, I've begun to realize how much Matt had picked up from www.setpro.com.  It's amazing how much we can still learn if we remain humble and willing.  I believe that he would attribute his ascent to the Majors from his willingness to stay a student of the game even after he had a great deal of understanding.  We can all learn from that.
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> As far as scap loading and Kata go.  He came back to spring training and the first thing he complemented me on was my scap load.  I had never heard that terminology, but I always envisioned my load as a back elbow load.  Where you don't even worry about moving the hands so much as you do about pulling your back elbow towards the third base dugout (right handers).  Anyway, thanks for the info and I'm really enjoying this site and learning a lot.
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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.
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> > Here's a kata thread,you may have to type it in without spaces.
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> > http://www.setpro.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000681

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