Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Fri Dec 3 12:33:22 2004

>>> Jack-

I would encourage you to participate directly at www.hitting-mechanics.org.

The site is owned/maintained/overseen by Paul Nyman,but the attempt is to welcome dissent.

I would expect you to be treated with respect,and the site has good indexing and audiovisual capability.

Not tt be too much of a pollyanna about this,I suppose there is risk of someone being percieved as right or wrong/winner or loser which could translate into a loss of business or proprietary information,but my guess is that it would really just mean more interest and business for all involved even if more heat than light gets generated.

The scientific principles are hard enough to understand with a direct good faith informed dialog.Understanding via intermediaries and proxies is not likely to develop understanding in my opinion.

Would you be willing to give it a try ?

Specific times for a dialog more or less real time could probably be arranged so you and Paul could interact directly/productively. <<<

Hi Tom

I thank you for your invitation. Business considerations would play no part in my decision whether or not to accept. I opened this Site to inform the public of my findings from a study of how energy is transferred in the baseball/softball swing. There were no products offered for sale until many readers requested a video explaining the batting principles presented on the Web Site.

I have not posted to another site since Batspeed.com came on line. However, my obvious concern with accepting your invitation is that it appears Paul has been successful in convincing his readers that a recognized physics law is “Voodoo Science.” There can be no intelligent discussion until this is resolved.

My high school physics book defines torque as, “Forces applied from opposing directions that cause an object to rotate around an axis.” The drawings that accompany and define this can be seen at: http://www.batspeed.com/research10.html
Once Paul and his readers accept that this physics law is not “Voodoo Science,” then maybe we can have an informed discussion of how it applies to the baseball swing.

Jack Mankin