Posted by: rql () on Fri May 24 16:18:51 2002

>>> In fact, with my daughter's instruction on video, we see her back elbow forcing her hands away from her body at the start of the swing. <<<
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> Hi Scott
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> I have batters who are accustom to extending the top-hand at initiation start with the back-elbow lower and practice accelerating the bat using bottom-hand-torque. With bht, the hitter should concentrate on holding the top-hand back and allow the rotation of the lead-side to torque (with a chp) the bat-head around. When the batter can demonstrate efficient bht, I then have them raise the elbow some and from that position instead of just “holding back” with the top-hand, they can start “pulling back” as the elbow lowers.
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> The important point to remember with the raised elbow is that; the lowering of the back-elbow should always pull the top-hand TOWARD the back-shoulder – definitely not extend the hands away from it.
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> Jack Mankin
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>To TOM,JACK,Tim Olson once talked about the box of the arms elbows hands and such,the key was to keep the box the same so if the front side went down the back side went up and vice versa,to me on the high pitchyou must be almost straight up at the waist and the rear shoulder can't dip or you swing up at a high pitch.The lower pitch the rear side dips as the front side raises to swing 90 degrees to the spine.This is how I interpret his weathervaning but I have'nt used the lead elbow as a cue yet .