Posted by: Anne (yes_1@yahoo.com) on Thu Mar 24 11:34:49 2005

> I am not sure what softball at the higher levels you have been watching, but the majority of fastptich hitter (especially) at the travel ball level, hit rotationally. That is the hitting style endorsed by the ASA and that is the hitting style that is "most prominent." I have been a college coach for over 12 years and just recently switched my teams to a more "linear approach." We have more homeruns and more hits the other way, then when we were teaching rotational. I think coaches get sucked into the roational style because they beleive it's faster, which it may be, but you trade speed for creatinga team of pull hitters. At the highest levels of softball, if all your team can do is pull the ball, you will not be very effective.