Posted by: BHL (Knight1286@aol.com) on Tue Mar 6 14:00:22 2007

> The first step is to accurately recite what I said.

Hi Teacherman,

You have mastered the one-sentence response. Let me be terse, and respond by saying that you seem to parrot Mad Max. Here is an excert of the direction that I think you are headed:

Maximum velocity is not the same as maximum displacement (movement)!!!!). Connecting at the instant of maximum velocity transfers the most momentum. When the linkage is made between hips and upper parts of the body, the upper torso starts to rotate. This displacement between hips and shoulders (twist/torsion) develops muscle stretch which creates muscle length, plyometric response and the storage of elastic energy.

It's the twist and not the pull that generates most of the hip momentum. There is no major muscle group that can "pull" the hip around at foot plant. What looks like pulling occurs as the hip flexors pull the upper torso forwards twards the batter. The natural reaction of the torso pulling forwards is to pull the back knee forwards. In one of my web postings I said;

As far as power path of hips. My feelings are that once you establish foot plant, there is little you can do to help the hips turn. Before everyone goes into orbit, try this simple experiment. Take a stride so that you weight is 50/50 and hips are closed. Now have someone stand behind you theirs hands on both of your hips trying to prevent you from turning your hips. It takes very little force to stop your hips from turning no matter how hard you try to pull them around. So much for the hips generating lots of force by pulling after plant.

The back knee driving around and downwards and the front knee turning outwards are the primary actions for generating twist.

This is the link: http://www.setpro.com/NEWWEB/mmax02.htm

Cheers!
BHL