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Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Sun Jun 9 08:40:24 2002

Frank-
Thanks for sticking with this.This type of communication is very difficult.Sometimes a yes/no question isn't as simple as it seems.For example how about the old "Did you stop beating your wife?"

Not something you want to answer necessarily,since the assumptions behind the question may be something that you don't agree with/are different between questioner,answerer and observer.

With respect to hitting,it is hard to have a dialog unless there is a shared model of how the swing works and a shared terminology associated with it.This is rarely the case.

As for the vision question:

Can the ball be tracked from release to contact?

Not by the traditional smooth pursuit/saccade system.

Probably by another visual system that exists but is not well studied since the money has been mostly in mediacl related research where this has not been associated with disease enough to get lots of study.

What matters for the hitting student?

Don't try to stay focussed on the ball.Go from soft to fine focus at release.Don't turn the head back.Swing when it feels right.

Compare the head turning of pro vs minor leaguer in this thread:

http://www.setpro.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000667.html

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Why no answer
Major Dan [ Mon Jun 10 05:39:32 2002 ]
- Why no answer
  Frank Jessup [ Mon Jun 10 11:59:05 2002 ]
  - Why no answer Major Dan [ Mon Jun 10 12:08:09 2002 ]
    Why no answer The Hitman [ Tue Jun 11 00:09:25 2002 ]
    Why no answer Frank Jessup [ Tue Jun 11 13:44:25 2002 ]
    Why no answer The Hitman [ Tue Jun 11 16:17:09 2002 ]
    Why no answer Frank Jessup [ Tue Jun 11 17:56:18 2002 ]
    Re: Why no answer The Hitman [ Wed Jun 12 01:33:32 2002 ]
    Re: Re: Why no answer Frank Jessup [ Wed Jun 12 05:51:01 2002 ]
    Re: Re: Re: Why no answer The Hitman [ Wed Jun 12 11:22:43 2002 ]

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> Frank-
> Thanks for sticking with this.This type of communication is very difficult.Sometimes a yes/no question isn't as simple as it seems.For example how about the old "Did you stop beating your wife?"
> 
> Not something you want to answer necessarily,since the assumptions behind the question may be something that you don't agree with/are different between questioner,answerer and observer.
> 
> With respect to hitting,it is hard to have a dialog unless there is a shared model of how the swing works and a shared terminology associated with it.This is rarely the case.
> 
> As for the vision question:
> 
> Can the ball be tracked from release to contact?
> 
> Not by the traditional smooth pursuit/saccade system.
> 
> Probably by another visual system that exists but is not well studied since the money has been mostly in mediacl related research where this has not been associated with disease enough to get lots of study.
> 
> What matters for the hitting student?
> 
> Don't try to stay focussed on the ball.Go from soft to fine focus at release.Don't turn the head back.Swing when it feels right.
> 
> Compare the head turning of pro vs minor leaguer in this thread:
> 
> http://www.setpro.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000667.html

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