Posted by: dominik (dominik-keul@gmx.de) on Thu Feb 18 01:29:03 2010

> PLT & THT came to me after the fact...
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> A well versed HS Coach mentioned that he did not like the rear ward movement of my son's hands before the swing just recently. This coach is usually right on. I now believe what he doing is exactly what jack describes with PLT & THT to a T. Is this something we sought out and made happen...no. Is he a very elite hitter, yes.
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> I can understand the hesitation about trying it, mine is extremely quick and has tremendous hands,. so it may initially slow down and or be cumbersome for some, but it's a piece of the puzzle that get a hitter noticed because the sound is different off the bat and the ball jumps and they say how does he do that.
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> Jack your observations are right on for my hitter after the fact, getting it done with a new hitter I guess may be a another ball game.
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> But... well worth the effort.

I think bobbies perception is not that wrong. Since the front shoulder is closed a little more than parallel to the plate, the front shoulder which might be pulled from the start is first going foreward(because it has to first point to the pitcher before it can be pulled back- I hope you understand when the shoulder is reverse rotated at the load it will go backward it it rotates more degrees.)

This means that first the THT would dominate and only after the front shoulder has rotated to the point to pitcher position it will pull bck to the c and cause that bht.

So it seems that the shoulde opening is delayed.