Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Thu Sep 21 16:37:04 2000

I've read the Test The "Crack of the Whip" Theory many times. It says that slowing down of the hands is not the reason for bathead acceleration. But do the hands slow down anyways, and when-just before contact
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Ruben-

Let's assume you are using the hands and arms primarily to torque the bat about a point between the hands and that the thing that is driving the hands forward along their circular/arcing path is the shoulder turn.Since shoulder/upper torso turn is generating the power to move the hands,you want to keep the shoulders going through contact,don't slow/stop the shoulders in an attempt to whip energy into the arms.In spite of your doing this,shoulder turn and handspeed slows because the energy is being transferred into the swinging bat.Swinging the bat out with the speeds observed takes lots of horsepower(7 or 8?).So the bat accelerates,but the shoulders slow down.Pretty soon the bat has been launched like a projectile and the hands are just being pulled along through the follow through.