Posted by: rql () on Thu Nov 6 17:10:35 2008

> I have taken the stride, my front heel is up and ready to drop and my back elbow is up and I'm ready to initiate the swing. I have two questions:
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> 1.) When I lower the back elbow and my top hand starts coming under the bottom hand, where exactly should the knob of the bat being pointed at first, directly toward the pitcher of the opposite batters box?
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> 2.) When I'm ready to initiated the swing, should my hands be positioned directly behind and close to my back shoulder or is that too far back. In Ted Williams book they didn't look that far back but in a grainy video, I thought they did.
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> Thanks for the help
>>I would say across the oppo batters box toward the base it adjustd after that by pitch location ,#2 just get a comfortabpe load that feels connected usually having some curving action of the hands as they rotate back into the load.picture pulling your rear elbow toward the dugout behind you and that is usually a good load then adjust to what feels comfortable,different body styles have different degrees of load