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Posted by: swingbuilder (crjedwards@aol.com) on Fri Feb 4 07:02:10 2005

>>> The bat should act as a flail and follow the "law of the flail".
> > The whip effect that you are describing it is more appropriately described as the "endless belt effect" by Homer Kelley. <<<
> >
> > Hi Mb
> >
> > I agree with you that describing the angular acceleration of the bat as a “flailing action” is far more accurate than referring to it as the “crack of a bullwhip.”
> >
> In the baseball swing as it relates to "cracking of the whip" is quiet simply the front leg acting as the hand. When it stops the momentum then that momentum can be transfered up through the body out to the hands and into the bat and barrel to maximize both bat speed and power!! So the analogy fits quiet nicely together...the swing and the whip crack. Can't we all see that???
>
> > Note: To readers that may not be familiar with a flail – (encyclopedia.org/F/FL/FLAIL.html) “Flail, or flagellum, is a farm hand-implement formerly used for threshing corn. It consists of a short thick club called a swingle or swipple attached by a leather thong to a wooden handle in such a manner as to enable it to swing freely.”
> >
> > In the baseball swing, the handle of the flail would be the lead-arm, the wrists serve as the hinge (leather thong) and the bat is the swipple. The rotation of the shoulders flings the lead-arm and hands into a circular path. The angular displacement of the hands (or hinge) induces an angular displacement rate to the bat (or swipple). This flailing action of the bat concurs with Kelley’s “Law of the Flail” -- Centrifugal Acceleration, Centrifugal Momentum, and Centrifugal Deceleration.
> >
> > It is important to note that a flailing action (or Centrifugal Acceleration) results from the hands (or hinge) being accelerated in a circular path. Whereas, the cracking of a bullwhip requires a more linear extension and stopping of the hands to uncoil the whip. There within lies the difference between the linear theory (extend the hands in a straighter path) as compared to a rotational transfer model which relies on a CHP.
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> > Jack Mankin
> >
> > I did not make the above statement about the flail.....Jack you would need to post a picture of this comtraption so that we all could better understand your point. Thanks

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> >>> The bat should act as a flail and follow the "law of the flail". 
> > > The whip effect that you are describing it is more appropriately described as the "endless belt effect" by Homer Kelley. <<<
> > > 
> > > Hi Mb
> > > 
> > > I agree with you that describing the angular acceleration of the bat as a “flailing action” is far more accurate than referring to it as the “crack of a bullwhip.” 
> > > 
> > In the baseball swing as it relates to "cracking of the whip" is quiet simply the front leg acting as the hand. When it stops the momentum then that momentum can be transfered up through the body out to the hands and into the bat and barrel to maximize both bat speed and power!! So the analogy fits quiet nicely together...the swing and the whip crack. Can't we all see that???
> > 
> > > Note: To readers that may not be familiar with a flail – (encyclopedia.org/F/FL/FLAIL.html) “Flail, or flagellum, is a farm hand-implement formerly used for threshing corn. It consists of a short thick club called a swingle or swipple attached by a leather thong to a wooden handle in such a manner as to enable it to swing freely.” 
> > > 
> > > In the baseball swing, the handle of the flail would be the lead-arm, the wrists serve as the hinge (leather thong) and the bat is the swipple. The rotation of the shoulders flings the lead-arm and hands into a circular path. The angular displacement of the hands (or hinge) induces an angular displacement rate to the bat (or swipple). This flailing action of the bat concurs with Kelley’s “Law of the Flail” -- Centrifugal Acceleration, Centrifugal Momentum, and Centrifugal Deceleration. 
> > > 
> > > It is important to note that a flailing action (or Centrifugal Acceleration) results from the hands (or hinge) being accelerated in a circular path. Whereas, the cracking of a bullwhip requires a more linear extension and stopping of the hands to uncoil the whip. There within lies the difference between the linear theory (extend the hands in a straighter path) as compared to a rotational transfer model which relies on a CHP.  
> > > 
> > > Jack Mankin  
> > >  
> > > I did not make the above statement about the flail.....Jack you would need to post a picture of this comtraption so that we all could better understand your point. Thanks

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