Posted by: Doug () on Tue Dec 23 21:07:23 2003

> Hi Gentlemen
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> Your last post to the board all made good points. But, I am withholding them for now because the questions I asked Lamber below goes right to the heart of what determines a productive swing and I thought it best not to distract from it at this point. I will post them tomorrow and hope you understand.
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> Remember, "A ballistic motion, once initiated, produces trajectories that can only be efficiently changed at its margins." This applies to Arod�s swing as it does to the rest of us. The forces Arod applies to the bat at initiation will determine the bat�s trajectories as well as his ensuing transfer mechanics for the balance of the swing.
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> I would also point out that the best indicator for understanding the forces a batter�s mechanics applies to the bat comes from plotting the bat�s trajectories during and following initiation. During my study, we had the aid of a Motion Study computer to do the plotting. But I also made fairly good ones by tracing over frame-by-frames.
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> Study the bat�s movements (especially the knob and bat-head) during pre-launch and initiation and ask yourself, what forces could the batter�s hands apply to the bat that could produce those results.
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> Jack Mankin
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> Jack, "A ballistic motion once initiated, produces trajectories that can only be efficiently changed at its margins"......Jack, I am a baseball guy who signed out of high school and never went to college. If you keep talking like that, I won't have a clue what you said. Pretend that I am a hitter who just signed out of high school and was a D student(pretty close to a true story). Otherwise, I will ask tom.guerry to explain it to me and then I will shoot myself. lol

Doug