Posted by: Major Dan (markj89@charter.net) on Tue Jun 11 13:08:52 2002

There seems to be a lot of discussion about how good one swings against a T or Swing A Way and in soft toss and then how difficult it is to take the same swing in the game. It seems to me that timing is the main difference along with pitch location. Has anyone suggested going to the batting cage and hitting against very slow pitching until you can keep your swing mechanics perfect and then gradually increasing the speed of the pitch step by step, not increasing speed until you've demonstrated proficiency at each level. Maybe 10mph increments until you reach the level you need to be at. Just dry swings don't do it for us. And jumping from dry swings directly into the frying pan doesn't do it either. Any comments? Anyone tried this?

machine with increasing speeds as you say, then controlled bp. Makes sense to me.