Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Thu Feb 3 18:53:05 2005

>>> So my Question Jack is this....do you or don't you subscribe to the understanding that the body moves forward and that the front leg stops the movement to create the swing? Thanks for your answer..<<<

Hi Swingbuilder

No, I do not subscribe to that theory. I gave some of my reasons in a reply to your post ,”The whip crack and the bat swing!!”

Swingbuilder, I have no problem calling the acceleration of the bat from a “flailing” of “pendulum” action a whipping action. These actions transfers rotational momentum by the angular displacement of the hinge point. This concurs with the way the body’s rotational momentum is transferred into bat speed by the angular displacement of the hands (CHP).

I do have a problem with any whip theory that leads a batter to believe that there is a “crack of the whip” effect that accelerates the bat from shifting weight to a blocked front leg and extending the hands (or knob) in a straight line at the ball. Coaches that bought into that theory keep generations of batters from reaching their potential.

Jack Mankin