Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Tue Jan 20 08:31:41 2004

Nick-

Sometimes the teaching is to achieve certain desired positions to speed up the trial and error process,and the drills use extreme/exagerrated positions at one end of the spectrum.

I suspect this is why Epsetin finds the very open foot(encourages 45 degrees) and the "proprietary" (very close to fence) fence drill useful.This will encourage Getting close to the plate and hooking the handpath and "handling" the inside pitch.You may have to grow up and get bigger to handle outside as well,but he seems to prefer the progression starting with the inside type mechanics.