Posted by: Jose (contacthitter@earthlink.net) on Mon Nov 24 10:44:01 2003

I would agree with you that in a perfect world all of us who would endeavor to attain the best swing would be able to do so with the benefit of a hitting coach at hand, sadly for most of us for a myriad of reasons that can not be the case. I picked up a bat at age 27 for the first time and started swinging, and found it to be truly much harder at first than people even said and wrote it to be. Doggedly, I have kept at it and have tried to augment whatever propensity I may have for hitting a ball with whatever information I could cull to make sure my mechanics are what are needed to make my intention to hit a baseball as effortless as I can make it. I'm not sure if a perfect swing is attainable in this fashion, but for my part, I feel improvement and aim to give it my best effort. I would say to anyone that setting the expectation of immediate results would be conterproductive as for me it as been a year and half of trial and error to get to where I am today. As they say, it is trully a most humbling sport, but I have yet to have found anything so trully satisfying as the sound of solid contact with a ball, and only wish I would have had discovered that at a younger age!