Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Fri Nov 12 11:53:45 2004

Jack-

That was very interesting and provocative data you colected on 1 arm swings in the thread below.

I was a little unclear on when you were talking about lead arm vs back arm.

Based on what I read,I am thinking this is extremely important stuff.Here are a few thoughts:

The one armed swings can encourage the feel/use of the rotational component/"connection" while still applying some torque via wrist action.

The two armed/handed swing has a tendency to encourage a disconected swing with compensation for loss of rotational component with more torque.

The two handed swing should provide more torque than the wrist action of the one armed swing via the push pull action transmitted from/through shoulders/arms.

When you swing one armed with the bottom hand you tend to get good batspeed if you stay connected,but this tends to be a long swing radius swing.

When you swing one armed with the back arm,this has the advantage of teaching the maintaining of connection with a shorter swing radius swing.

This supports your progression of starting with first- the one armed/back arm swing,then second -adding the bottom hand to learn BHT/hook to enhance connection/without excessively increasing the swing radius.

One handed back arm swings can help teach the feel of connection and a short swing radius to break the tendency toward "top hand dominance" which tends to disconnect or at least force to long a swing radius.

Thoughts ?