Posted by: Shawn (bellshw@aol.com) on Tue Jan 2 15:18:00 2001

Tom
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> I've seen that effect often. I think it's just a video effect due to blurring at lower shutter speeds. I've seen the bat (both metal and wood) bent quite significantly and I have a hard time believing it's any type of visible torque.
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> When I see slow motion with high shutter speeds I don't think I've seen that effect.
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> Tim

Tom & Tim,

Wood has the ability to bend. Take todays small handled bats, they will flex and unflex and break if contact isn't made near the sweet spot.

This isn't the same effect that happens in most alum. bats, although the 2 piece Easton flexion model was made to create the wood bat effect with alum bat trampoline effect.

A wood bat going from 0-90 plus will flex, and their is an analogy between the bat acting like a guitar string, and nodes, sweet spot etc., Look it up in a baseball physics book.

Shawn