Posted by: () on Sun Jul 29 15:44:42 2001

>>> Its my beleife that to swing up on the ball the batter must do one of the following:
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> 1. Start out with his hands below the height of the ball and swing up on it.
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> 2. Start out with his hands above the height of the ball (which almost all batters do) and swoop down and up on the ball.
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> 3. Hit the ball at the end of the swing, after the wrists have rolled over.
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> Remember most batters start the forward movement to the ball
> with their hands ABOVE what is a high strike.
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> What does Epstein say? Joe A. <<<
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> Hi Joe A.
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> Joe, you really need to make a closer frame-by-frame study of the swing before you speak. Many of your statements just do not hold water with what a video breakdown of the swing shows. --- For example you stated, "Its my beleife that to swing up on the ball the batter must do one of the following: 3. Hit the ball at the end of the swing, after the wrists have rolled over." --- Joe, on a good swing, the path of the bat-head bottoms out and starts angling upward well before the hands are fully extended and the wrist start to roll. This is clearly shown in a frame-by-frame study. A little more study before making those types of statements would make your arguments far more credible.
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> Jack Mankin
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Jack,

I guess you just assumed that I didn't look at the frame by frame on your site. I have and I don't think it shows what you said it shows