Posted by: Teacherman () on Fri Feb 23 13:22:39 2007

The frame before contact to the contact frame and then to the frame after contact shows the hands working to keep the barrel in front of the ball.

Notice he loses the L in the rear arm. If his hand weren't helping keep the barrel in front of the ball they could continue around the body.

They don't.

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In the second clip the bend in his rear elbow, as he turns the corner, looks like it is around 60 degrees. At contact it is maybe 100 degrees.

Rotation didn't cause that.

Clearly an effort to get the barrel in front of the ball.