Posted by: Chris O'Leary (chris@chrisoleary.com) on Mon Oct 30 14:22:09 2006

"First timer. You do a good job of telling people that long strides a'int necessary. Your axis is wrong though. For some reason, you think that the back leg is an 'L' shape at contact. How can it be? Even in no-strides, which is what I teach, the batter must shift AGAINST HIS FRONT SIDE HARD (also known as pushing off your back leg) against a planted and stiff front leg. This snaps the whip. We wanna have transfer + rotation Jack, not spinning, as hitters (even as commenters say) that the back leg needs to DRIVE."

In an effort to understand what Jack is saying, I have collected a ton of photos of major league hitters. The page below contains a number of photos of Albert Pujols...

http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/Baseball/Hitting/RethinkingHitting/Examples/AlbertPujols.html

In virtually all of them, Pujols' back leg is in the L shape...

I also don't see much evidence of a push off from the back leg in these photos.