Posted by: Teacherman () on Fri Nov 21 15:54:45 2003

>>> I, too, agree that there is a difference between bat quickness and bat speed. Bat quickness is how quickly you get the bat to the hitting zone while bat speed is how quickly the bat gets through the zone. <<<
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> Hi
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> I do not intend this to be confrontational, but I fail to see how a batter can get the bat-head from launch to contact quicker without increasing bat-head speed.
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> Jack Mankin

Jack

For lack of a better description, a pepper type swing is much quicker than a game swing. Way less batspeed but way more quickness.

Using a SETPRO computer I can get my reaction time (time from decision to contact) way up by reducing my batspeed.
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