Posted by: Jeff (kidd@islc.net) on Thu Dec 16 21:15:15 1999

Hey Jack,

I'll leave the scientific particulars of your argument to Steve, for he is far better equipped than me to offer an informed viewpoint. I'd like to be difficult by nit-picking the semantics of your argument.;)

I've been wandering around this site for the better part of a month trying to understand not just the general theme of your research, which I'm more or less inclined to agree with, but also the nuances, which I'm still strugglilng to comprehend. You make statements such as, "Therefore, weight transfer and the slowing down of the hands is not a factor in developing bat speed," then in this thread you describe exactly how weight transfer contributes (albeit indirectly) to the development of bat speed. I tried earlier to make this very point, but to be brutally honest, your response left me wondering whether or not you understood my point.

I realize these two statements refer to different stages of the swing, but your use of the word "developing" in the first statement leads to great confusion, for it can refer to the bat at the time of contact or it can be taken to mean ANY motion that takes place while the bat is being brought forward. By the start of this thread, I take you to mean the former, but the impression I get from reading some of your posts and the rest of the material on this site is the latter.

Perhaps you run into more oppostion than you deserve because you seem to stake out an extreme stance, when in fact the real argument is over how and when to generate both linear and rotational forces and in what ratio. But since your language sometimes seems to recognize nary an ounce of utility in linear movement, sometimes this board gets wrapped up in stating the obvious.

Please accept this criticism in the spirit in which it is offered. (I have no axe to grind and am simply excited when I run across new material I think might prove enlightening.) Your research attempts to obviate a heretofore little realized aspect of the swing; but for your research to be of ultimate value, it must be explaned in language that, like good research, rings with clarity.

Regards,
Jeff