Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Tue Dec 30 22:05:00 2008

see

http://www.batspeed.com/messageboard/18794.html

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Now JJA the engineer is trying to clarify Mark's remark:

JJA:The Mankin post was rather off-topic, but I'll make one comment on it. Mankin does appear to have changed his views on the so-called "top hand torque". At one time he insisted that 50% of the bat speed was due to torque but numerous reputable researchers as well as posters (Adair, Booth, Nyman, Joof, many others) have demonstrated that this assertion is a complete fallacy. In response to this irrefutable evidence, he has apparently changed his view and no longer makes this claim (at least according to several people who have PM'd me). This may be what Guerry is referring to. As a regular batspeed poster you might ask him what percentage of bat speed is due to torque to get a clarification on where he currently stands on the issue.

-JJA

My recollection was JJA got confused and got his equation wrong.