Posted by: Dennis W. () on Mon Mar 26 02:48:19 2007

> I'm a new convert to CHP etc. from a more or less linear way of initiating the swing. I see only one downside so far: with a linear hand path, if your started the knob to the ball and then decided to check your swing, you could do so fairly easily since the bat hadn't yet started in an arc. The explosive early initial bad speed of THT -- which I am sold on -- does make a successfully checked swing unlikely, doesn't it. Obviously not a reason to stay linear, but just an observation

Nice comment. I thought the same with regard to the check swing. Then I started taking visual exercises to help me judge the ball early. The entire rotational swing IMO should be ONE explosive movement initiated at the moment the batter recognizes the pitched ball (as outside/inside/high/low-etc.)