Posted by: Melvin () on Fri May 28 00:02:26 2004

Folks

Question for Teacherman, Coach C and anyone else.

I am beginning to wonder if it's not best to let the hands hook the hand path.

I had been letting the lower body dominate the program, and trying to get the hands to "automatically" follow the circular route.

It's been a very heavy feeling, little control, some decent batspeed, but a long time in developing on each swing. Timed right, boy, the ball jumps like crazy. I am not finding much flexibility to adapt to pitch locations with it, though. Might be a deficit of athletic ability on my part, but that aside, I am wondering.

I am wondering if a hitter can envision and reproduce the egg-shaped parabolic route the hands take between the body and the plate and simply let that be the program, a "hands-arms-elbow in the box" program.

It really simplifies timing and makes for more of a "one piece" swing, I think.

I am all for THT and scap loading or whatever we might call it. But I have been too caught up in what's going behind me, and the swing has gotten heavy.

Can't a hitter just "maintain the box" and deliver that box in the curved hand path?

It sure seems easier to do that and let the lower body adapt to that, than the other way around.

Thoughts, please.

Melvin