Posted by: Melvin () on Wed Oct 10 07:46:08 2001

Hello
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> > You can call it whatever you wish, but the videotape proof is conclusive.
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> > Poor hitters advance their hands toward the ball with a shoving or throwing motion that disconnects the lead arm from the upper body.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Melvin
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> Hey, your not paying attention, yiu can sling something in a cirle path or you can sling it straigt.but it doesnt matter anyway.Havnt you heard of a hammer throw? I dont agree or disagree but at least adress the experiments the guy did

Hello

I don't think I'll be addressing any experiment because no experiment was performed. An experiment requires a lot of work. It requires a hypothesis, standards, control groups and calculation for dozens of variables. It then must be repeated by someone else if the hypothesis is proven. Let's not profane true standards of intellectual rigor by reading a few paragraphs about top-hand torque, going and swinging the bat, and calling that an experiment. It's not. It's called anecdotal evidence and is the most unreliable testimony there is as to an ideas reasonableness.

I almost have to laugh at all the people who write in here and say they read the site, told Junior about it that night and the results are amazing! I play about 40 ballgames a year and hit two or three times a week and it was taken me months, months I say, to even become reasonably fluent with bottom-hand torque, let alone top. And that was after week upon week of just trying to figure out what it was.

No, sir, I don't think there are any experiments being written about here and I certainly call anyone an intellectual lightweight who says they read it last night, tried it today and loved it/hated it.

Melvin