Posted by: Graylon (g_dunc@hotmail.com) on Sun Jun 8 20:33:41 2008

> > Your premise is sound.
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> > Keep searching for the details.
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> > I suggest you remove the word 'connection' from your hitting vocabulary. Only amateurs who deliver the energy to the barrel through shoulder rotation worry about connection. Of course, they HAVE to worry about it because delivering the energy through shoulder rotation is full of slop.
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> > High level hitters use a better mechanism.
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> > But......again.......your basic premise is a LARGE step forward.
> >
> > Keep after the details.
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> I'm sorry but I'm a little confused. What are you getting at?? What better mechanism do they use?? I am simply referring to the act of connecting the barrel of the bat to the rest of the body. Basically not powering the bat with the arms. "Maintaining the box" etc etc.

Dave,

Don't worry about the box, forget the box. To worry about the box means you have to set plane to early and you end up turning like heck. Low adjustability, fewer squared balls, to slow.

Let the hands turn the bat, arc the bat all the way to contact. If you think about what the hands have to do in order to get the bat to arc rearward and then maintain an arc to the ball, the lower body will take care of itself. in other words if you get the hands to do what they need to do the the rest of your body will respond.

Graylon