Posted by: Coach Preston Peavy (smarty1@mindspring.com) on Wed Mar 16 06:07:43 2005

The final statement in this thread about my approach promoting a "longer swing", does not show a clear understanding of what I teach and is in error. I teach a VERY compact swing, to a high terminal batspeed with a movement called a pursuit curve movement...it is compact(short in back)and goes well with the laws of physics (leveraged) for maximum acceleration AND it is a sound, efficient movement (meaning biomechanically-a movement the athlete can actually do and repeat) which maintains a high terminal batspeed while in a quality impact configuration to achieve a relatively long (in terms of relative length out front and through the ball) impact zone after rotation (which occurs at about 75% of swing movement, unlike purely rotational guys that force a top hand cast and who rotate the wrists at about 50% of movement. BUT, it is ANYTHING BUT LONG, as some of my premier students swing in less than .13 of a second, with some in the .11 second range, total effective swing time, proven by my High Speed Motion Analysis....

Just to clarify for those on this thread, that my approach in the Full Transfer Method of Hitting is neither purely linear nor is it purely rotational, as it relates to lower body AND to hand movements.

It is my contention, after countless hours of High Speed Motion Analysis study of the best, that fundamentally we neither move in a linear or rotational way...we use a combination of linear and rotational movements.....when we view the best in High Speed Motion Analysis, which is a specialty of mine, we truly teach what we see....because the best move so fast, we MUST slow them down (and I do not mean 30 frame a second camcorder stuff) to 100 to 250 frames a second to ACTUALLY SEE what they are doing and how they are sequencing it, or putting it together.

These discussions are great, but let's make them accurate when we are depicting others please.....and while I greatly respect Lau and others for their contributions to the game, my approach is not to be confused with theirs..........I base what I promote more on my High Speed Motion Analysis, Biomechanical and BatSpeed Studies of the best in the game...and what they do fundamentally in common, within their own differing but successful styles....

See this article on bat acceleration at www.peavynet.com/news/linerrotational.htm and the other articles as well,to better understand the theories I promote......

Everyone is welcome to view some of the Motion Analysis Videos I have posted at www.peavynet.com which show the best in baseball, doing what they do best, but each in their own style....while achieving the same basic fundamentals...remember, their is a DIFFERENCE between FUNDAMENTALS and STYLES....but, that is another subject.....

And, if all else fails....just ask!

Yours in Baseball, Coach Preston Peavy
VSI Baseball
www.peavynet.com