Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Fri Jun 10 11:55:23 2005

>>> in both golf and hitting techniques where the flail/chp is essential from bathead launch to contact, the forearms appear in plane with the club bat. the back forearm needs to get on/in plane by the time unloading starts to fire the bathead (when bathead/center of mass gets outside arc of handpath).see:

http://www.golfbetterproductions.com/comparison.asp <<<

Hi Tom

Comparing the golf clip (http://www.golfbetterproductions.com/comparison.asp) to a baseball swing (http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/mpg/Chipper01.mpeg) shows once again that there are very dynamic differences in the mechanics of the two swings. As the golf clip shows, the back-forearm is in the plane when the club is at the lag position (or about 90 degrees from contact).

However, in the baseball clip, when the bat reaches the lag position (at about frame 65 of the clip), the back-forearm is far from being in the plane. In fact, it is almost perpendicular to the plane. The bat is almost at contact before the back-forearm enters the plane, whereas the entire lead arm is in the plane from initiation to contact.

Jack Mankin