Posted by: BHL (Knight1285@aol.com) on Sat Jun 3 20:55:23 2006

Hi Jack,

During my bag experiments, I reached 83 mph on the Swing Mate in setting up for outside pitches. Nevertheless, I also knocked some stuffing out of the bag whirling the bat around so hard.

Does this make sense to you? Does not increasing energy mean swinging faster, and, as a result, hitting the bag harder as a result of a high rotational velocity that is ascertained?

In other words, how can John Elliot swing easy and generate tremendous batspeed without leaving any significant marks on the bag?

I can also hit 40 on the Swing Mate with just one hand by just sending my hands perpendicular to the bag to begin with. However, if one does so, even while rotating, will that not disconnect the bottom hand from the chest, creating less BHT?

What about the swing plane? If the flight of the bat is being sent perpendicular to the pitch, and meets the pitch on an upslope, will it not make sense to swing down first when they are sent perpendicular to the pitch so that, when the hands wrap around the pitch, they are traveling in an upward direction?

Would it not make sense to just keep the front arm across the chest, and bring both hands at a diagonal downward angle perpendicular to the pitch to initiate CHP, with the front arm still connected for BHT, and the back hand spinning around the front hand for THT?

One final thought--why not abandon all sensations of a smooth and tensionless theory, and go with the one that gave me the 83 mph batspeed? In other words, why not treat all pitches like outside pitches?

Best,
BHL