Posted by: Mike () on Mon Dec 6 06:01:25 2004

After reading the posts this month and for Nov. I am seeing that everyone has a different way of explaining this. I went to one of the other web pages and was talking about whip effect. I don’t know how you can compare hitting a ball with a bat to a whip effect. The bat doesn’t bend like leather.
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> On the hitting mechanics web page all they seem to want to do is say there way of explaining things is the only way for it to work. I watched there videos of hitting forces CHP applied. They don’t support the THT at all. They talked about it but it doest represent what you video shows or how I see it explained in your video/web page. With that or any model you can make it support what you want.
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> I do not have a physics degree. But I have watched Jack's video and use it every time my son works out. I have seen his batspeed increase so much in a short time. The thing I have taken from Jack's video about THT is.
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> 1 - This is an advance level and should only be applied after the mechanics is set in stone. Meaning that the BHT should be perfect or as close as it can be. My 9 year old is just getting to that right now after 7 months of working on just mechanics/heavy bag. I did noticed that the better his BHT mechanics got, the more I noticed him trying to use the THT.
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> 2 - The back elbow is the key to THT. When the elbow is dropped from should position to the side of the body. The bat head has only one thing it really can do. Start moving towards the catcher. That is the Pull effect. This does start the process off and will create more batspeed.
> Jack, am I wrong in my thinking? If all of these coaches / parents on these web sites are this confused or wanting to make noise?
> Mike
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