Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Wed Feb 11 10:27:29 2004

Tom,
> >
> > Great clips from you as well. The scap load reference you often use has helped me tremendously in understanding the shoulders' role in the swing. I wanted to thank you for being persistant and mentioning it. There is a tremendous amount of loading power in that move......it's like loading a cannon. My Son took to it right away when I used the term with him, and he already had good transfer mechanics....it really gave him POP! Thanks!
>
>
> i have pointed out many times the relationship between amount of bat cock and the degree of rotational "rotational" hitting....the more bat cock there is, the more the hitter of an "L" in the top arm at contact...thats not to say that if a hitter has full x-t he is "linear"...afterall, who is going to argue that macgwire or griffey jr are "linear"?...but the "L" IS a major chacteristic of "rotational" hitting...
> >
> > Coach C

grc- Good points.I would consider Griffey and Arod,etc to still be rotational even though the "L" can come out quite a bit.They must still be staying "connected" by shortening the swing radius/hooking the handpath/shaping the handpath with the bottom hand/lead arm/front shoulder or else they would decelerate and increase timing error.

The bat cocking is very important to create stretch,create connection and line up the turning bat and the momentum plane of the torso.

here's another one from the setpro archives:

http://www.setpro.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000315

Bagwell is an interesting example of how you have to make the body work when you don't generate a lot of weight shift/linear momentum/forward movement of center of gravity to assist.

and

http://www.setpro.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000279

proper up and back move( 2 piece,2nd piece is scap load/bat cock) adds 5mph+ to batspeed