Posted by: Shawn () on Thu Aug 12 16:17:14 2004

>>> Have you ever thrown a medicine ball? <<<
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> Hi Teacherman
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> Excellent point. One could also ask, have you ever thrown a disk (where the first acceleration is behind the shoulders)? Whenever the power from shoulder rotation is required, the hips will naturally lead.
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> Jack Mankin
>

GRC,

What technique are you talking about? Epstein?

For the mass majority we are upperbody dominate. Those who are not have more problems then the upperbody dominate group.

The hips have been talked about for years. I think it comes down to how a player is rotating. I don't think everone does it the same way. There are different combination that might work well.

I think the hips represent the handle of a whip or the pluck of a bow string. The seem to set everything off. But, sometimes just trying to rotate the hips doesn't seem to change much. Maybe there's a secret to using them correctly.

Shawn