Posted by: rql () on Mon Mar 4 19:59:28 2002

Tom we had talked about the lean back on the i.s. pitch.I use to think that I leaned back to bring my hands in tighter but as I was doing this the other day I felt that shortening the radius of the swing actually created the lean back.I felt like I started rotational as though it was a middle pitch then reacted to the tight strike by really pulling the lead elbow in tight across my front side as my shoulders turned.Seemed like I made the adjustment as my bat was in the lag position and rapidly got tighter.I felt like I was using the elbow to speed up the radius shortening but actually I think I was using the upper arm and lead scapula like a turbo booster to the already firing shoulder turn.I focused on the lead elbow some and it seemed to me as though it started circular but kind of took a hard 90 or flattening of the chp across the front of the body not toward the pitcher.All this seemed to stop my forward torso movement and may have pushed it back and I just thought I was leaning back.If I was leaning back on purpose I feel like I may not have been getting off my back side stronly.Any thoughts