Posted by: () on Tue Oct 9 13:03:40 2001

Hello

You can call it whatever you wish, but the videotape proof is conclusive.

Poor hitters advance their hands toward the ball with a shoving or throwing motion that disconnects the lead arm from the upper body.

Good hitters accelrate the bat back toward the catcher, then the hands move into a circular orbit and the lead arm moves in sync with the upper body. The bat head then gains maximum speed from shoulder rotation.

Personally, I cannot see how throwing the hands would be a useful thing to think about. But if someone can do that and the result is consistent with what good hitters do, it doesn't matter.

It is unreasonable to think that someone could come to this board and say disconnecting the hand path from rotation is good technique and not expect to be corrected.

Melvin