Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Mon May 21 09:26:03 2001

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> > Both the golf grip and the late wrist snap interfere with transfer mechanics in the rotational swing.Many in baseball teach the late wrist snap because they think it promotes momentum transfer by better whipping(faulty understanding of underlying principles)but they know that keeping the bathead back is not desirable at least as a swing thought/cue.In fastpitch,many teach it as a way of keeping the bat head back as well.
> > Tom,the push/pull you refer to in torque I always felt was what gave me the feel of one big hand.To me if each hand is applying equal pressure pull and push as Epstein has suggested and the bottom of the bottom hand is pulling back and the top of the top hand is driving forward with help from shoulder turn,I felt they both felt as one because each wrist actually moves in the same direction.The top of the bottom hand is going forward just like the top of the top hand,and same for each bottom of each hand.Its the bottom of the bottom and the top of the top hand that move opposite of each other yet flow as one driven by 2 shoulders that turns as one.

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an excellent example of how "cues" are open to interpretation.What many fastpitch coaches are looking for is the bottom of the bottom hand and the top of the top hand going in the SAME direction(saving wrist snap until the arms are coming to full extension),just the top hand going faster(and the swetspot going MUCH faster).This kind of action,however has a limited top speed generated by the arms,not the lower body,so even though the sweetspot goes a lot faster than the top hand,the absolute speed is suboptimal.