Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Tue Jun 18 15:57:34 2002

>>> I'll bet anyone who has had a golf lesson has been told to keep the head still.This is common advice for beginners,but becomes constraining as the golfer develops.Another piece of advice for golfers as they progress is to pretend that the head is in the corner of a room at ceiling height such that it can't go forward(toward target) or out or up.Back and down some,however, is usually OK.In hitting it is probably also OK to go up a little with some necessary posture adjustments for a given pitch. <<<

Hi Tom

In teaching the baseball/softball swing, I find the batter controls head movement better when they concentrate on rotating around the stationary axis than when trying to just keep the head still. It also results in better lead-leg extension for the “hook” and the batter has fewer tendencies for lunging. – I refer to the lowering of the head during the swing as, “sliding down the pole.”

Jack Mankin