Posted by: tom.guerry () on Tue Dec 23 21:36:17 2003

Jack,
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> When I started the Vlad-Mac thread I was interested in understanding the
role of the top hand arm in the swing. Following is a reference to a clip of
Nomar. This is not an unusual swing for him. The more my son has worked on
keeping hands tied to shoulder (hitting the bag) the more his swing path has
started to resemble Nomars. There is a concept being talked about by Lamber
(?) and maybe others that the hands don’t move at all (or very little) after the
elbow has slotted. That the elbow never gets away from the body. Nomar
has this type of a swing. However, my observation of clips has been that for
most hitters the angle between the back forearm and the upper forearm
(which starts at say 45 degrees) is releasing into contact to 90 degrees or
more, with the hands going forward into contact even as they are rotating. I
have numerous clips of Bonds releasing the back arm into contact. It is very
hard for me to understand how the technique used by Nomar in this clip can
produce a more powerful swing than one where there is a little back arm
extension into contact. That is what I am trying to get to the bottom of.
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> Nick
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> http://webpages.charter.net/nickkio/Nomar06.mpg
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