Posted by: Walt () on Mon Dec 13 18:42:58 2004

Hi Henry & ??
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> > We can continue to discuss your questions, but first I need to clarify a point with all three of you. – You have finished your pre-launch movements. The bat is in the swing plane. You have pulled your back-elbow back toward the third base dugout (right handed batter). The elbow is beginning to lower. The shoulders are just starting to rotate. – How far is your top-hand from your shoulder?
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> > Please take a bat – assume this launch position and tell me the distance.
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> > Note: If you are from Setpro, how far from your shoulder is your top-hand once you have fully loaded the scap?
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> > Jack Mankin
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> About 6"-9" if you are a good major league hitter.

Jack you never said anything about keeping hands anchored to the shoulder before, why now?Yes I can understand how you can come up with a useful cue out of the blue, but it seems like you're not just inventing a cue you're inventing a new concept you never discussed before.All this time you tried to expkain tht you never once mentioned that a key to tht was anchoring the fists to the shoulder.It appears that rather than inventing a cue to match the concept of tht you are inventing a new concept to match tht.I might add a concept that does not match what the major leaguers do.Whatever they are thinking when they hit I don't know.All either of us can do is look at the clips and analyze from there.But one thing is for sure, the clips do not show the average big league hitter with their hands any closer than 6 or 8 or 10 inches from shoulder, and I can think of several reasons why they would not.
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