Posted by: skip (piks5@sbcglobal.net) on Wed Mar 28 11:36:20 2007

This site needs testimonials. Yeah, I know, testimonials are for get-rich-quick or Lose-Weight-While-Eating-More. But this site truly needs them.

THT/CHP asks that we believe that everything our mind/body knew about a baseball swing was wrong.
1. Tug back to initiate a forward swing.
2. You can stay just as short to the ball (get the bathead quickly into the contact zone) by moving your hands/bathead in an arc as you can by going more or less in a straight line.

Yet it makes sense to me.

My 12 y.o. son hits lots of line drive singles, in travel, in the clutch. Yet, based on info on a website, his father is madly trying to convert him to a different swing. Assuming good instruction, a decent athlete, and relatively decent kid work ethic, what's the learning curve? Given those assumptions, has this NOT worked (or been a disaster?) for anybody out there in cyberspace? Typically do you get 5% more batspeed? 10%? How does CHP,once mastered at the heaving bag, alter the batter's sense of timing when first used agst. live pitching?

Converts to a new cause yearn for testimonials. I found one today in the "learning cues" post - it will keep us going at our heavy bag station in the garage for another couple of days. (actually the new swing LOOKS good already).

When you're asking people to make a "leap of faith" they need more than rational explanations... they need an evangelical camp meeting with testimonials from those who've made the journey and are thriving at the destination.

Skip