Posted by: Teacherman () on Wed Nov 26 11:04:38 2003

To my untrained eyes, Rose in this clip is not using bottom hand torque. He seems to
> be pushing his top hand to turn the bat. This seems most evident when you look at
> the frames right before and thru contact. He has almost stopped rotating and there's
> no "hook" of the BHT. The bat lunges out.
>
> Also his back elbow seems really far from "the slot".
>
> Am I seeing this correctly?
>
> >Rose sure seems to have a circular hand path, but little if any top hand torque.
> (Maybe the video started too late to see it.) Why does he lack power? Is it the lack of
> pre-launch bat sweep that Jack has been referring to lately?


Em

Where is the pitch?
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