Posted by: Fat Pete () on Sun Oct 17 03:47:13 2010

> No one here believes that a batter should take wild out of control swings.As a matter of fact a tension free fluid swing is the belief here.You say the videos of Ted Williams taking a circular hand path is distorted. And you refuse to belive the over head drawing of Ted Williams hand path on page 42 in his book the science of hitting is circular. Even thou it clearly is circular . As a matter of fact the hand path that Ted Williams showed on page 42 is as circular as the demonstration that Jack Mankin uses in the film clip on you tube to show Pete Roses hand path to the ball. They have the same arc.so dont believe what you see on film and in the book.But you are wrong when you say T Williams never talked about a arc in his swing which to me means a circular path.
on pgs 56and 57 he writes about ty cobb giving him advive how to push the ball to opposite field to beat the shift.williams then states the arc of my swing was much greater then cobbs.cobb chocked up and pushed the ball. that wasnt in me I was down with a longer stroke a greater arc . so t williams did talk about a arc or curve in his swing.maybe your friend will give back the used science of hitting book you gave him for christmas so you can re read the book and look at the pictures.if not maybe you can get hold of charley lau sr book on hitting with his knob to the ball you are more in line with his thinking then you are with ted willians ideas on hitting