Posted by: Donny Buster (donnybstr@aol.com) on Sun Oct 24 11:12:02 2004

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I don't have a dog in the fight but bow/arch is not tht/bht IMO. To me it is a postural move whereby the batter bends at the waist as he/she strides , firms the front side, and uses a raising rotating lever action getting out/up from that position. It is very powerful move that helps eliminate bat drag and creates more flail force without the arms /hands trying somehow to accomplish it alone.

Tom Guerry wrote this about it
"The down up/plyometric is what helps reliably harness weight shift blocking to get hip (thighs as levers too) turn to max to create xfactor stretch,then the spine is maximally "bowed" so it can "arch" as the bathead swings out,the spine using the front leg as a base to decelerate the lower body mass AND preferentiall send the momentum UP assuming the bathead is postioned/moving/ready for it.Otherwise you waste all that momentum truning something else or bleeding it off into the ground."'

I think you can use tht/bht and bow/arch at the same time. One is arm action the other spine angle( back/thigh) action.

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