Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Wed Dec 10 09:14:15 2003

Sorry I posted this topic previously with no subject....I don't think readers can access it.. ADD I guess
> My son and I attended a camp at a local college recently. We watched as some coached were instructing. Most players were hitting down and the ball fight was into the net at floor level 6 feet from the tee. Most were extending the rear elbow at contact.He coaches seemed like that was alright. I watched silently ( believe it or not). Can you get rotational follow through with rear elbow extension. Nobody that I saw ever hit a line drive off the tee. With the standard batting tee it is almost impossible to hit a line drive unless you drop/tilt and have the elbows and hands functioning through the zone as shown on the Final Arc. You have to get behind the ball. What are they doing and what am I missing conceptualy about this ?

I think once you have a hypothetical swing model in mind,you can use it to try to account for the evidence,but what kind of evidence?

I think this must be a case of "feel" rather than "video reality" being associated with good results.In other words,something about feeling like you swing down seems to "work".

Paul Nyman ,for example, has found that beginning kids can be induced to rotate the torso instead of extending the arms by telling them to start the swing by swinging down and trying to "kill worms".Then you have to be ready to move them along to the next guardrail on the trial and eror path.

Eventually you do want to minimize the perception-reality gap so that your cues resemble reality better,even slowmo high resolution video reality.However,the cue-reality distinction is usually not communicated/implemented adequately.Also make sure your goals/expectations are high enough.