Posted by: Melvin () on Tue Feb 17 21:03:10 2004

Hi Folks

Epstein believes in a straight hand path. His thoughts are identical to those of Steve Ferroli, whose work I know well. Hips spin, hands shove off straight (that's the shortest distance, you know), like a motorcycle accelerating off the top of a speeding train that's going around a curve.

They both spent a lot of time with Ted and this is their interpretation of Ted's prodding "push the ball, you PUSH the ball."

Maybe Ted said push but meant only unbroken wrists. We can't know now. We do know that Ted hit the dang outside of the ball when he pulled it, which was most of the time.

I think this whole thing is a dead end street. Let's worry about rotating and getting a circular hand path. Then we'll worry about just hitting it, never mind which quadrant.

Melvin