Posted by: Grand Slam Man () on Tue Jun 6 08:57:35 2006

Hi jAcc Manken,

Sory about the spelling,i can't type too good.

I have a couple of questions of I wantto ask you?

1) In the Get Yure Arms eXTEnded, you have a picture of Grifey, and recommend a straight front leg and arm at impactu suppose to bend it to Drvie through the balll?

2( What is the classic L in both the front and bacck leg at contact? Arn't you supodsded to PuSH with that back arm, and drive hard with the back nee?

3) What is with this heavy bag thing? I'm confused...are yoiu supposed to get vibrations in your hands, or attan high batspeeds with no ringing in the hands. i'm new here, and I red the following on nyman's hitting-mechanics.org site. Here is the what ny mann said:

In preparing the SETPRO Instructor Swing Training Program V 1.30, among other topics, I have new information on extension, value of, pros and cons, how to achieve it, etc.

One of the demonstration methods I was experimenting with was the use of a heavy bag as a feedback/demonstration mechanism.

The theory was simple, and I had discussed this with Steve Englishbey, that the goal of the player is to strike the bag and create as much noise as they possibly can as a result of the bat impacting the bag.

The feedback here being the amount of noise i.e. the amount of energy being transferred from the bat to the bag. The theory being that obtaining rotational extension, and the key word here is "rotational" as opposed to disconnected extension, that the amount of noise created by impacting the bag is a way of quantifying how effectively the player is creating rotational extension. In essence what you're doing is using the sound of the bat striking the bag as a bat speed indicator. But with potentially greater central "effect", i.e. the noise created by knocking the crap out of the bag.

Well to make a long story short, after breaking my favorite 34", Alex Rodríguez wooden bat (split from just above my hands almost all the way to the end of the bat). And then breaking my 34" Jeff Bagwell wooden bat (snappeed cleanly and half just above the hands), all of which occurred in the first 10 swings, I then tried an aluminum bat and quickly abandoned it because the knob, aluminum bat knobs are much more "intrusive" than wooden bat knobs because of the way the bat is constructed and as such produced a much greater shock between my hand in the knob upon striking the heavy bag.

All of which leads me to the conclusion that using a heavy bag is (for someone attempting to use it to generate bat speed and or even to approximate game swing mechanics) possibly not be the best way to go.

At least it wasn't for me.....

Could u please explainn thixs bag thing to me? Thanks?

i am looking foward to a response.

Yurr sdite has good info in it; i am just tryinmg to lern it So that i can practice it.

Thanxs for putting up with the long post.

Again,
Grand Slam Man