Posted by: grc () on Tue Jun 19 09:49:22 2001

please see my respone to you down below under top hand torque specialist......it's easy for the post to get overlooked....respectfully, grc....... >>>>GRC,I saw a good ex. of the 2 ways with boston the other day.Offerman took a 2 strike fb for a soft liner over short with 2 strikes.His hands were in front of his body and the ball was down the middle.Then Ramirez comes up and drives a double over the rf wall and on replay you could see his hands were in line with his rear shoulder and the barrel was further back and aimed at the 4 hole at contact.He was in early rotation and seemed to be throwing the rear shoulder and hands at the spot the ball went.Maybe try taking a bat and swinging like you describe and letting the bat go and see how far it goes and where then try the 2nd way with rotation and let go of it [lefty] to ss it should feel similar to the full rotation where a lefty would let the bat fly over 2nd.Just let it go early and have hips shoulders and hands tight in that direction like all the power coming together at contact as you release the bat to short.

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> rql......i don't know if you have read any of eptein's material at mikeepsteinhitting.com, but in one of his articles ( i think it was entitled "staying inside the ball") he compares the ideal swing, for both inside as well as outside pitches to a pinball machine.....or, as good old virg once stated, a windshield wiper......epstein says do not take the hands in the direction of the pitch even if it is outside.....just let the pitch get in real deep on you, and per his diagram you will hit the inside part of the ball on the outside pitch...........i think this is similar to top hand torque, but the big problem i have with it is that it seems to me that it is impossible to hit the ball deep in on you without contacting the ball when the bathead is STILL HEADING IN IT'S DOWNWARD DIRECTION.......what do you think?.........respectfully, grc........