Posted by: Graylon (g_dunc@hotmail.com) on Wed Sep 10 16:51:43 2008

> "The cues and the things they think they do created the swing you see"
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> This is absolutely true but the problem with it is when you tell these cues to another player who is trying to learn how to swing, they'll interpret it differently from the major leaguer. The trick or mental process that the major leaguer uses to produce a good swing won't be the same mental process an amatuer player uses, and the swing will be completely different.
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> "So why not listen to what they say, why do we think we know more then the guy playing?"
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> You shouldn't listen to what they say because they're usually (especially in Pedroia's case) not specific. And we know we know more than the guy playing because we can look at video that proves that what they think they're doing is not what they're actually doing.


The MLB player was an ametuer at one time, he was not born a MLB player, these are the cues they have been using forever.

The MLB player can look at video also, it's not rocket science, we are not the only ones who have computers and cameras.

They know what they feel, they know what there trying to do.

Take David Wright for instance. I have a dvd with a drill he does, it is a one handed, top and then bottom. He says to use your hands and try to allow your shoulders to finish where they started. He says, this sounds weird, but try. He then has someone toss in front toss while he uses his top hand to fire the barrel around it and through the ball. Then the same thing with the bottom hand. It seems that he wants his shoulders to stay nuetral. He said he does this drill before every BP. This is a drill that forces the hands to work. Forces the feeling of the bat working around the hands. All while the shoulders stay nuetral. I think that we can probably agree that Wright has a good swing and is a good hitter. How can that be when he does a drill that you will probably think is useless? Scince he doesn't know what he does.

Graylon