Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Wed Jan 4 22:12:14 2006

> Donny-
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> Lau Jr has a good drill (taken/kept in context) where kids have to hit the screen up the midle a high proprotion of the time,you might review LAUS LAWS to see what that is about.
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> I LOVE quickness.
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> I think Jack teaches the quickest possible style mechanics for a "full swing".
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> You are talking about quickness as a compromise which is a different point of view.
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> I would say from the "quickness is good and Jack teaches how to do it in the full swing" that Bonds is able to wait on the ball as long as possible and still make solid contact with high batspeed which is quite different from trying to improve contact by too much focus on shortening batpath.
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> Being able to wait on ball should be becaseu you have a pattern like Bonds, not because you are only going to take an excessively shortened swing. Might as well arm swing or bunt if you are going to do that.
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> I don't buy the supposition that you shorten the swing by suppressing arm action,then add it on later if you can manage a "longer" swing, i think you just mess up getting to the high level pattern that jack describes if you take that route.
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> Maybe the kids who do well with the apparent "elimination of THT" are still doing it bytrial and error rather than following instructions.