Posted by: BsH (wallstfire@aol.com) on Tue Jun 19 20:32:38 2001

Thanks to all that responded to my fastpitch question. Heres 1 other. Besides swinging down into the ball another style im hearing being taught is called the Flat Bat style. It seems to make sense to me. Maybe not for great power but in making contact for base hits. Your bat is held more parallel to the ground, which allows you to be on the same plane as the pitched ball with even less movement it seems than with the bat straight up.
Its hard for me to describe but to those here that know fastpitch softball, im sure you have saw it...
When used with this rotational therory taught here, it seems like it would work great .

As I said im not looking for the homerun power that it seems is being mainly disscussed here, but strictly for basehits, line drives, making contact.

Your thoughts on this style would be greatly appreciated.