Posted by: 6bmike (mpix123@gmail.com) on Fri Mar 10 22:45:34 2006

> Hi Mike
>
> Welcome to the site. John and Shawn are right on with their advice to you on the role of the hands. I will place below part of an e-mail I just sent on the topic.

> Jack Mankin

Thanks Jack. What I meant about the right arm punch was just an image for my young son to continue to unfold the right elbow. Many kids lik to stop the follow through or at least slow it down to steer the ball as if that was possible. Jack, I come from a solid back ground in golf instruction with a study in Bio-mechanics and The Golfing Machine. One stroke patern that TGM teaches is the Hit stroke in which the hands deliver the whole club- clubhead and shaft into the ball. This seems very close, minus the incline plane, to what you teach.

And yes, I might have been cherry picking, but not with a blind eye, although I do not like the wide, stride-less rotational swing that the Epstein camp advocates- I do like a the idea of a very tight screwing of the hips. Telling my son to 'squash the bug' and show the catcher your left rear pocket seems to work- image wise so far.

Off topic- what is the opinion of Bernie Willams' swing - in his prime. I see a clip of it on this site and wonder what you folks think about it.

http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/mpg/Bernie_Williams2.mpeg
Talk about a back swing? LOL.