Posted by: PatA () on Mon Sep 9 09:16:56 2002

Yes this site is called batspeed. And more batspeed is better.
> > > > > My question is:
> > > > > How important is it how quickly you can get your bat up to speed?
> > > > > Which is more important - highest batspeed or how quickly you can get your bat up to a lower but reasonably good batspeed.?
> > > > > Or would you rather have greater accleration or greater top end batspeed.?
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> > > > >
> > > > I would suggest the following:
> > > >
> > > > Good contact on the bat. You need to find the sweet spot.
> > > >
> > > > Speed or reaction time to the pitch. How else can you hit a 95 mph fastball, split finger, curve etc. a long swing might produce more batspeed but no contact.
> > > >
> > > > Batspeed. How else can you hit it over a 400 ft fence?
> > > >
> > > > They all all important for success.
> > >
> > > Your right but neart the top of the list would also be skawshing the bug and not having the hands to low or high Also finishing high helps to.
> >
> > Skawshing the bug?!
>
> Yep, squashing the bug, also known as PIVOTING.

Xian, I'm fairly sure I understand the technique, I was simply referencing your spelling. I'm also fairly certain that you won't find many bug "skawshers" here. On the original question, am I correct that bat speed is relative to rotation?.