Posted by: RD (Rdeane@gsu.edu) on Thu Aug 30 19:44:10 2001

I am a "lurker" who belives very much in what Jack is doing but one who has not been active in posting. Sorry, if this subject has been discussed before, but...I am curious as to what the standard should be for bat speed. I have SETPRO equipment for bat speed measurement. I also have Jack's tape and generally follow the "rotational" batpeed.com philosophy. The real question is how do you know if you are successful? What is the standard? I know that my son's bat speed is good for his age and weight from a local standard, but how does one know if they are doing good from an "absolute" perspective? Everyone: Please don't respond by saying, "Just do the best you can, and keep trying to improve". That is simply not good enough for as far as I am concerned. Jack, do you have any standards that you advocate? For example, what should a 10 (almost 11) year old kid who only weighs 75 pounds be doing in terms of bat speed? Do you consider this a relevant topic for this board? If not, then how do you measure progress? Certainly not just in terms of batting success in games since we face such a variety of pitchers.