Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Wed Nov 10 08:06:33 2004

jack it finally cooled down in fl. so I went out to hit some again and I tried to do some 1 handed swings with a 34/31 bat.I found to my surprise that I hit a ball with my lead arm only nearly 300' in the air,yet top hand only they were line drives just over the infield and ground balls through infield.Yet when put together I did not hit a ball over the 310" fence,these were all off tee.I also realize that my bottom hand is my dominant arm which felt like it had some play in it.The bottom hand also tended to get under the ball more where the top hand got over the top .Some of this makes perfect sense to me but my concern was how much was my top hand helping me,or tht for that matter.Then I thought maybe I am not applying it well.I will admit that the ball just jumps off the bat with both hands for liners in the gap and it gives me more consistent swing plane ability ,and I am using my whole body on these swings so it isnt a case of just using bottom hand vs. top hand.
> I guess the surprise that I hit it 1 handed that far on a tee to begin with and then not so far with the other seemed to make me wonder if there is something here to make of it or not,just a head scratcher puzzle to me at this point.

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My theory is that the back arm/scap lead the loading so that they accentuate the last quick bit of coil and reversal which would quicken your swing as well as add some batspeed.The majority of the batspeed comes from the connection to rotation/hook of the bottom hand/lead arm.

Used well,the back arm would then result,not necessarily in more separation,but better sequencing/load/reversal of torsion.