Posted by: oleballcoach (jatchley@farmerstel.com) on Fri Jun 8 10:36:28 2007

The circular handpath is maintained, but the radius is lengthened for the outside pitch by allowing the hands to go out and away from the body. The wrist hinge angle is maintainted and still allows for the hook or torque to happen in the zone. Jack talks about maintining a constant elbow angle from initiation to contact. I agree with him for middle to middle in pitches. On outside pitches this isn't always the case though as the lengthening of the radius of the CHP can cause the elbow to straighten.

> Elite,
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> How does a batter negotiate an inside pitch (high, mid, low) still mainataining CHP, but not expending early torque at the wrists.
> IMO early torque expenditure is a loss of power.
> On video my hands are where they should be at these pitch locations, however at the cost of BHT application (which getting jammed sometimes occurs).
> For those of you practicing the Rotational Swing, please offer a friendly word of advise.
> Please do not come up with a Linear stand-point comment. After countless MLB swing comparisons, and video tape of my own players before and after, I agree with Jack, Mike Epstein, TED WILLIAMS...etc that this Linear approach, though applicable at one time, is an out dated, sub level approach to the swing.
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> Dennis