Posted by: Torque (roscoethewestie@comcast.net) on Fri Jan 29 12:09:25 2010

> I saw Chipper Jones hit a Tom Glavine change up over the CF fence doing the same thing Torque describes. I left one thing out on the curve ball. Hitting the RH curve was no problem learning for my son. He is a RH hitter and he faced a really nasty left hand curve that ate his lunch on the 1st AB. The next trip up I told him to just read the break imagining the ball being thrown from the right side of the infield. That at bat the breaking ball started well off the plate and cut across diving towards his feet, he stayed on it and hit a line drive that short hopped the RCF fence 385' away. Torque is correct, even though the hitter may pull the curve or off speed pitch from time to time, he should be thinking go the other way with it, because we have to be able to hit it to the opposite field or at least wait on it like we are going to hit it the other way.

It is pretty neat when you see a rear leg extension home run. I think the MLB hitters are taught pitch recognition first and not getting fooled but if they do I am told that advanced MLB hitting is to be able to hit rear leg extended. Again, I've never seen an article on this but this MLB player has won some silver slugger awards simply called it rear leg extension and something you never hear about.

I don't know how you can generate that much power in that position though but it lends credence in that the weight shift doesn't create power. The hitters weight shift is exhausted by the time they make contact with the ball. It is pure rotational power at that point.