Posted by: grc () on Wed Dec 1 06:53:46 2004

"Put your hands in a cocked position with the bat in a vertical plane and the tip pointed slightly to the pitcher. The bat can be in front of the helmet( extreme) or over the top of the helmet. You will notice your rear elbow will be fairly high. Now stride to hit and see what happens to the hands.

You cannot go straight to the ball from there and you must get on plane first. This bat position will force you to ' scap load" the rear shoulder in order to hit the ball. As I have suggested before...."

the above comment was recently made by swingbuster at setpro ....."The bat can be in front of the helmet( extreme)"is indeed extreme, but nevertheless i think the comment illustrates what i have said many times before: sufficient bat cock & inward turn will automatically force the knob-to-the-catcher thing, and the hips will automatically be ahead of yhe hands, all without the hitter even having to think about it...and of course the high elbow helps prepare the hands for their circular habd path.....