Posted by: jima (andyii@cox.net) on Tue Sep 26 07:11:08 2006

BHL, thanks for clearing that up. Your not pompous, its just everyone's inabiity to fully understand you that's the problem. OK. Got it. By the way, re: the place kicking...the reason that straight on kicking was the vogue until the early 70's had a lot more to do with field conditions than style...soccer kickers had a very difficult time planting their feet and getting the ball airborne on the early playing fields...by the way, doesn't Tom Dempsey, a straight on kicker, still hold (or is close) to holding the longest field goal of 63 yards...someone at altitude may have surpassed him recently. Anyway, soccer kickers kind of prove my point that good hitters use both linear and rotational mechanics. The first move of the soccer kicker is linear, a step to the ball, followed by a rotation around a stable front leg...there is some weight shift to the front leg. Good hitters employ the same mechanics, an initial linear move followed by rotation. By the way, mr. erudition excellency, my Father always told me not to trust people who were in love with the sound of their own voice.

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