Posted by: Dave (cdpaetkau@telus.net) on Fri Nov 5 10:50:57 2004

Here are two clips from Jack's 1st video:
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> http://webpages.charter.net/nickkio/HandPath/

Hi Jack et al

I have some problems with the video clips that you have shown. The clip of the circular handpath shows Jack inwardly rotating his front shoulder and this puts his back elbow behind his back (look for back elbow as he rotates backward) and it turns his head and eyes prior to the swing. I am sorry but I do not see the top major league players doing ths during their swing. I have clips of Bonds, Sosa, etc and they all keep their elbow from getting behind their back and I see a shoulder shrug but no inward rotation of the front shoulder causing head and eye movement.

The elbow going behind the back causes casting of the hands and excessive CHP that will cause the hands to travel too far away from the body. This is something that you see in very young kids where they use this to generate more bathead speed distally to the body because of a longer arc of the swing however they have trouble htting inside pitches or pitches that are travelling at a higher rate of speed.

Any comments

Dave