Posted by: grc () on Thu Sep 20 09:51:24 2001

>>> i fear that you may have overlooked my repeat question of 9-16-2k1......respectfully, grc....
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> 9/19/01 --- jack.....i think my question below got lost with the subsequent nonsense....i'll pose the question again......................people talk about weight distribution ar launch position (50-50) but what might be an ideal % AT CONTACT?......for example, a-rod, with back toe barely touching ground and body nearly errect, looks like maybe 95 % of weight is on front side.....and maybe a hitter who has more backward lean might be @ 75 percent......reggie jackson always looked as if he was more like 50-50 AT CONTACT.......has this issue ever been studied and for that matter, how much relevance might it have?......respectfully, grc....... <<<
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> Hi grc
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> I think your assessment is correct. I could find no correlation between % of weight on the back-foot and batting performance. Weight on the front-foot is more a function of stride length than type of transfer mechanics used by the batter. Bonds has little or no stride and has a good percentage of his weight on the back-foot at contact while Aaron's axis is more straight up and has most of his weight on the front foot. --- Is one more correct than the other - who can say. --- The important observations to note while studying their mechanics is that some things in their swings remain constant. - they both have a circular hand-path and both apply tht and bht.
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> Jack Mankin

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>thanks for your response, jack, but one more question, please.......let's say, for example that a hitter, AT CONTACT, has 40 percent of his weight on his back foot, and another hitter , AT CONTACT, has only 10 percent of his weight on his back foot.....it might be tempting to assume that the hitter with only 10 per cent of his weight on the back foot transfer more weight from his backside to his frontside.....and yet i don't think there are major leaguers who are transferring as little as 50 or 60 per cent of their weight from back to front........so.......what am i missing here?......what exactly does "weight transfer" mean?.........can it be that after the stride most of weight has been transferred, and yet by the time the swing has has been completed a hitter can return to a position where only as kittle as 50 or 60 per cent of his weight is on the frontside?.....i hope you can make sense of exactly what i am asking..........respectfully, grc..........
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