Posted by: jerry (22o hitter) on Thu Jul 2 09:01:13 2009

while I could never deny that big name mlb players are taking a circular hand path to the ball > because I do see it every night on ml baseball highlights .I dont think most of them are using chp on purpose its a result of starting the swing by opening the lower body hips]and leaving the upper body closed creating a streched feeling as the upper body gets pulled open by the hips and then the shoulder ,the front arm gets pulled taking some slack out of the elbow starting the circular hand path eventually the front shoulder does take over the swing towards contact but i think chp starts because of separation between the upper and lower body at the start of the swing