Posted by: Maximum () on Tue Jul 31 13:28:04 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,
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> > > 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
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> > Jack,
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> > Sorry I accidently sent the last post before I was finished. I will pich up where I left off.
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> > I didnt think that picture is supposed to be a tool for study, there are too many things wrong with it. First of all it dosent have and depth so it hard to tell the what the movements really are.
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> > But most importantly it seems to change the view of the batter in the middle. In the begining it seems to be head on to the batter. In the middle it seems to be from a point above the batter looking down and later it is head on again.
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> > I thought it was just a graphic not intended to be studied. I make many frame by frames of batters.
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> Joe what's scary is the idea thatyou coach.I hope not.You have your wierd ideas at this site, no harm done, we just laugh at you. But if you teach these ideas to kids, well all I can say is how sad.
Joe, that frame-by-frame is just a drawing, I mean it is just art, it ain't perfect. It just gives the main idea of what it should look like. It's best to watch the pros from the side view. I agree about the angle of view. To me the first half of the swing looks like you are looking at an angle. At the end it's straight on, but no one's perfect. I think the best idea is to tape the home run derby and watch any replays of each swing from the side view.