Posted by: mike (yanks4321@aol.com) on Sat Dec 9 15:15:00 2006

> Keep your head tracking forward and you cannot counter rotate your shoulders . You don't want to do that as it causes tension.
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> Keep you hands near you arm pit. One method is to just tip the barrel to the oppo gap from a vertical hand set remaining loose. Allow you upper body to smoothly slave to that hand action . Jack calls this prelaunch torque. TO me your turning the barrel opposite from the dorection it will eventually go. I agree with your instructor. Maybe Jack can help with a better explanation
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> You can apply great BHT and THT with the barrel returning to plane.
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> You can reduce your total effort so much and increase your output that you will be amazed.

Donny, thanks alot. I think I get what you mean by pointing the bat to the oppsitte field. Watch this clip of Adam Laroche. Is this what you mean. Watch how he points his barrel towards left field (opositte field for him).

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thanks alot!!