Posted by: ray porco (rporco@verizon.net) on Tue Jul 12 02:52:37 2005

Ray,

Did you intend "when the thumb is more ABDUCTED" in the second sentence below rather than "ADDUCTED"?

The thumb position mainly decides whether a grip is under the category of precision or power. When the thumb is more adducted, then the grip becomes close to precision and vice versa. When the grip has the least precision and the most power with large adduction of the thumb, it is called 'coal hammer' grip.

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Jim,

Please go to:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzep5xd2/baseballphotosandvideos/id3.html

then scoll down below the pictures of the hands and click on the hyperlink under “reference”.

Under the menu on the left side of the page, click “Class Topics”.

Again under the menu on the left, click “Prehension Overview”.

Please read and I will discuss it with you tonight (or after this post gets posted).