Posted by: BsH (wallstfire@aol.com) on Tue Jun 19 20:45:13 2001

tom........i know you are well informed on mike epstein's views......it seems to me that he is a believer in the circular hand path....and he seems to be an even stronger believer in the kinetic chain than jack mankin!!!!...... and , even though he calls it something else, he seems to be a strong believer in the "elbow in the slot"....but then epstein advocates a modified fence drill....modified so as to place the hitter even CLOSER to the fence...........it seems to me that if one were to develop a swing by practicing this modified fence drill, three things would happen............(1) no circular hand path (2) there goes the kinetic chain (3) there goes the elbow in the slot..............as a matter of fact, when i simulated this exreme fence drill, the only way i could get the bat toclear the fence was to do exactly what jack demonstrated in his video with the steering wheel knob: simply thrust my hands forward, and in a way that would make hitting the ball hard very difficult, if not impossible...........would you agree there is an inconsistency here?......i would appreciate your comments......respectfully, grc.........

That same question was posted to Epstien on his web site, and he answered it, though I cant remember his answer except that he agreed with you and his fence drill was serving another purpose. You may find your answer on that site I think..