Posted by: The Hitting Guru (hitman3527@aol.com) on Fri Jun 2 12:06:19 2006

> > Benefits
> > 1. a simple swing and approach
> > 2. less likely to go into prolonged slumps
> > 3. greater contact on fastballs
> > 4. easier to use the hole field
> > 5. uses more upper body strength
> > 6. easier to hit the high pitch
> >
> > Flaws
> > 1. decreased power
> > 2. harder to hit the low pitch
> > 3. harder to breaking pitches
> > 4. tendency to hit the ball off the end of the bat
> > 5. less batspeed
> > 6. tendency to pull off pitches due to lack of batspeed
>
>
> Hi hitman
>
> Im will have to disagree with some of your benefits and flaws of linier hitting this would be my list of benefits and flaws
>
> Benefits
>
> 1. simple swing
> 2. easier to hit the high pitch
>
> Flaws
>
> 1. decreased power
> 2. harder to hit the low pitch
> 3. harder to hit breaking pitches
> 4. tendency to hit the ball of the end of the bat
> 5. less batspeed
> 6. tendency to pull off pitches due to lack of batspeed
> 7. more likely to go into prolonged slumps
> 8. more difficult to hit fastballs because the bat is not in the contact zone long enough
> 9. more difficult to use the whole field with enough power to get the ball out of the infield.
> 10 requires more upper body strength


Coach 13. Would you care to explain your reasons for 7 and 8 under flaws? Thanks.