Posted by: grc () on Mon Apr 22 20:05:31 2002

jack...in my opinion, one of your biggest contributions to the study of hitting is the same contribution charley lau sr made years ago....both of you studied hitters & identified what many great hitters have in common....i personally think your identification of the circular hand path for hitting an inside pitch is a major contribution....

but i was wondering.....we all can see the hitter but we can't look into their minds.....and we don't always know what cues work for these hitters, even though in THEORY these cues might contradict your theories......

for example, take the cue of "throwing the bat at the ball"....barry bonds uses this cue & no one would accuse him of being a "linear" hitter....some rotational theorists might think that this cue would result in the hands going in a straight line, or the hands getting ahead of the hips...but yet, unless one TRIES to get the hands ahead of the hips, the hands will NOT get ahead of the hips and will NOT be "linear"......

so, my overall point is this: perhaps there are a number of useful cues out there that maybe in THEORY might not be useful but in the real world is useful to the INDIVIDUAL.....

respectfully, grc....