Posted by: Teacherman (teacher9@sbcglobal.net) on Thu Nov 10 14:20:40 2005

You forgot to finish your sentence.............Internet nerds "who know more than you". Please, I like accuracy.

Actually, I'm amazed that you would fess up to having put 30 years of your life into baseball and you still can't analyze video.

No one has claimed the movements/swing ideas you read here are new. The best hitters of all time have all swung the same. HOF hitter after HOF hitter use the same basic techniques. What's amazing is you've been in baseball for 30 years and still can't explain them. I wonder if you can identify them. What have you been doing with your 30 years?

As far as the kids are concerned, I would consider it a total failure if I could take hundreds of thousands of kids at age 5 and only have a handful playing professionally at age 25. The reasons are many why kids drop out. The reasons why the talented ones don't make it is directly related to the coaching they received. The words those coaches use to describe the swing are far from accurate. The concepts those coaches have instilled are wrong. And, most realize this when it's too late. When their swing is too far engrained into their neuromuscular system to change.

What is new is not the swing but the terminology. The understanding. The terminology, which better describes the swing and is more accurate. The underlying movements, the biomechanics, the physics is better understood. I should say better understood by those outside the establishment. Because the establishment has NO f'ing clue.

Please stay on topic. The tangents you add simply show you can't argue the swing. Trying to take me off topic will not work. I don't care what Billy Bean is doing. This topic is about the swing. Are you able to understand that and stay on topic? If so, we can discuss the issues. If not, see ya.

If you have the kahones, post a clip and lets discuss what a hitter is doing that makes him great. Go ahead, put those 30 years on the line.......Let this internet nerd have his shot at you.

Oh yeah, what are the names of all those European hitters again?