Bat Speed -- Baseball Hitting Forum

Posted by: Jim C. (jhconklinjr@comcast.net) on Wed Nov 17 10:15:34 2004

mb, If you have a bunch of clips, look them over and you will find that the bathead is in front of the hands on pulled balls, even with the hands on balls hit to center and a little behind on balls hit the other way. Don't really care about what physics says, but I do enjoy looking at the 150 or so clips that I have of big leaguers taking big league swings. 60 frames per second and stopping the swing at impact.....not little grounders to the shortstop, but balls ripped to all parts of the park. More later.....
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> > > > > I have seen home runs with broken bats. Does that mean the hitter should use a broken bat?? Once the bathead moves ahead of the hands the hitter has lost his bathead lag. Lag is his only defense against the mass of the baseballs effect upon the bat.
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> > > > I have many clips of major leaguers hitting home runs, including the home run derby in Las Vegas, and ALL of them when pulling the ball out of the park have the bathead ahead of the hands at impact, and NONE of them broke their bats. Show some clips proving your theory.....I would like to see them.
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> > > At 30 FPs few clips can show the precise moment of impact. Nothing to prove the laws of Physics have withstood the test of time.
> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38465000/jpg/_38465619_bonds220.jpg
> > > or
> > > http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/features/2001/bonds/popups/hr_67.html
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> > mb, Get the RightView Pro disc and you can watch all the best major leaguers at 60 frames per second. They all have the bathead in front of their hands when pulling a ball.......every one of them, and it is precise.
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> Physics dictates if they had better timing they would have hit the ball further in each of those swings. The bathead must remain behind or inline with the hands or batspeed decreases. It is the #1 imperative of the hitter.

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> mb, If you have a bunch of clips, look them over and you will find that the bathead is in front of the hands on pulled balls, even with the hands on balls hit to center and a little behind on balls hit the other way. Don't really care about what physics says, but I do enjoy looking at the 150 or so clips that I have of big leaguers taking big league swings. 60 frames per second and stopping the swing at impact.....not little grounders to the shortstop, but balls ripped to all parts of the park. More later.....
> > > > > > ***************************************************************
> > > > > > I have seen home runs with broken bats.  Does that mean the hitter should use a broken bat??  Once the bathead moves ahead of the hands the hitter has lost his bathead lag. Lag is his only defense against the mass of the baseballs effect upon the bat.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have many clips of major leaguers hitting home runs, including the home run derby in Las Vegas, and ALL of them when pulling the ball out of the park have the bathead ahead of the hands at impact, and NONE of them broke their bats. Show some clips proving your theory.....I would like to see them.  
> > > > ********************************************************
> > > > At 30 FPs few clips can show the precise moment of impact. Nothing to prove the laws of Physics have withstood the test of time.
> > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38465000/jpg/_38465619_bonds220.jpg
> > > > or
> > > > http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/features/2001/bonds/popups/hr_67.html
> > > 
> > > mb, Get the RightView Pro disc and you can watch all the best major leaguers at 60 frames per second. They all have the bathead in front of their hands when pulling a ball.......every one of them, and it is precise.
> > ******************************************************************
> > Physics dictates if they had better timing they would have hit the ball further in each of those swings.  The bathead must remain behind or inline with the hands or batspeed decreases.  It is the #1 imperative of the hitter.

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