Posted by: BatMan () on Sat Dec 1 08:38:11 2001

I am becoming quickly interested in rotational mechanics. I have always been somewhere in between I beleive but lately more linear. I would really like to have the whole rotational thing explained in detail. I have just about every book, I bought Jacks tape, but I think I need to see it to do it. Epsteins tapes supposedly are excellent.
> > > > > Paul
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> > > > With apologies to both, I don't think I would understand it as well as I do (still ignorant, just not AS ignorant) if I had not studied both of them. Of course, when I correspond with Tom Guerry, I still feel like a moron sometimes. :) But I'm learning.
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> > > > Mark H.
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> > > Both tapes are better than average but both Jack and Mike make the same mistakes that are made in most instructional tapes.
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> > And these mistakes are......???
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> James,
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> Exactly my question. Drives me buggy when people do that. I mean it was a better than average post, but he made the same mistake that most people make when posting on here.
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> Mark H.

The errors are lack of good frame by frame compare & contrasts.

Sugestion for Jack: show frame by frame (side view and overhead view) of a college player with a circular hand path and another one with a linear hand path. Show with the various contact points (inside, middle, outside).

Sugestion for Jack: show frame by frame (side view and overhead view) of a college player using top hand torque and one who is not. Show with the various contact points (inside, middle, outside). Pay special, visual attention to the technique of "turning knob towards the catcher.

Sugestion for Mike: again, demonstrate with frame by frame and by contact point what happens using torque position vs. not using torque position.

Sugestion for Mike: if you are going to use major leaguers to support your position, don't use still photographs that are being used out of context, use frame by frame. For example, Mike used a still photo of Willie Mays in the "torque position". It so happens that this particular "torque position" is Mays at least one frame AFTER launch position, and yet Mike is having his pupil contort his body so as to land & be in this position AT launch position.

Sugestion for Mike: If you are going to teach the fence drill, spend more time with visual aides (e.g,. frame by frame analysis) comparing/contrasting the swing using fence drill mechanics vs. not using fence drill mechanics.

Sugestion for Jack: use the same player for your experiments. Don't use a guy for one swing and a girl for another, use either the guy for both or the girl for both.

Sugestion for Jack and Mike: spend less time talking and more time using frame by frame to support your position.