Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Sat Sep 9 09:35:02 2006

>>> You can vary the degree of separation by simply raising or lowering your hands. Higher equals more separation. Lower equals less. You can also vary the degree of separation by changing how far forward or how far back the hands are. Further back equals more, forward equals less.

I'ts a top down control of a middle out movement. <<<

Hi Teacherman

Good points. The position of the hands has a direct bearing on the acceleration (and direction) of the bat-head as the swing is being initiated. The greater the acceleration rate of the bat-head, the greater the work load for shoulder rotation and thus the greater the seperation.

The more forward the hands, the more likely the knob is accelerated forward rather than the bat-head being accelerated rearward. Accelerating a static bat forward offers a much lower workload for shoulder rotation to overcome and thus induces less separation.

Jack Mankin