Posted by: Mike Santoro (Asantorojr@aol.com) on Sun Aug 8 21:57:41 2004

Jack,

I'm currently at Seton Hall University. During the last 2 months of my college season I decided to do some research about the swing where I came upon your hitting technique and have been training ever since. After about 4 months, much research on the site and my own personal trial and error, I have a few questions of my own.

First off I noticed two things about THT. One is that when you apply the torque with the top hand the bat cannot be in a virtical position. My question is, is the bathead at an angle or "in line with the lead arm" all the way from application to contact. Or does the bat naturally fall in line with the lead arm after THT is applied, (if the bat is not in-line with the lead arm at initiation).
Second, I know this is a gray area in discussion but I seem to find this as the single most questioning problem in understanding the application of THT. Do the wristsunhinge when THT is applied, and if they do nothow far exactly back do you torque before you innitiate shoulder rotation.
What I really want to know is how can you pull the bat back directly towards the catcher (virticallly) when the swing plain is more horizontal. When I try pulling the bat into the swing plane with tht, I'm actually (as a righty batter) at an angle away from my body so that the nob is pointing up the 3rd baseline. Please clarify. Respectfully...