Posted by: phil (philipland@aol.com) on Wed Sep 14 19:13:10 2005

Ray,
Read your post on invision regarding timing, and the comments you made regarding the start of the swing. Thiught they were both good. My question is at what point during shoulder rotation do you feel the arms should swing away from the body, where should the hands be relative to the chest (ie perpindicular to sternum, back shoulder, etc). I ask because I was viewing some of the up-loaded clips and it seems to me that in many of the swings the bat appears to be pulled laterally, away from the line of the pitch, by the shoulders instead of the barrel swinging into the ball. I feel this is caused by holding the arms against the chest too long not allowing the barrel to swing out towards the ball. My son has a similar fault and I would be interested in your opinion.